Cargo cult
Is Sydney 2000 the ultimate in cargo cults? You can feel (and hear) the anticipation that riches and honours will fall out of the sky on us — when the only assured reality so far is a 2 or 3 billion dollar bill and a lowering of the
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Mabo made understandable
Mabo — its meaning for Australia
A Community Aid Abroad Background Report
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Reviewed by Lachlan Anderson
Community Aid Abroad recently released a compilation of
By Poul Funder Larsen
MOSCOW — The full-scale military attack on the White House (October 4), ordered by Yeltsin, and taking a terrible toll of some 500 deaths, is by all accounts the opening chapter of a dictatorship along the lines that
Rainforest banner a winner
By Cam Walker
MELBOURNE — Thirty activists from the Boycott Mitsubishi Coalition leafleted the National Basketball League's finals at Flinders Park on October 1. The action was part of the campaign at events
Socialists announce candidates
By Liam Mitchell
ADELAIDE — The Democratic Socialists have announced two candidates for the next South Australian elections. A major point in their platform will be greater democracy and the involvement of
Academic defends group named as cult
By Michael Collins
How free should academics be to lend the authority of their positions to doctrines which have not been subject to academic evaluation? The question arises in regard to the group Kenja,
How Australia won the Olympics
By John Tomlinson
At 4.20 a.m. on September 24, the secretary of the International Olympic Committee announced that Australia had won the right to host the year 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. It can now be
Unions plan struggle to defend wages
By Boris Kravchenko and Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Defying heavy government pressure, Russia's main union body went ahead on September 28 with a conference that had been intended to map out a campaign of
The war against the majority
This statement was issued by the "North-South Dialogue" sponsored by the World Federation of Democratic Youth in New Delhi, September 22-23.
Although the cold war between the USA and the USSR may have finished,
Cuban doctor speaks
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Cuba's unique and revolutionary health care system has faced the challenge of the recent polyneuropathy epidemic — affecting the eyesight of many citizens — by mobilising the country's
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