Strange, that
"The image has not been a good or helpful one. It's all about spooks and reds under the bed and that kind of thing." — ASIO head David Sadleir on public perceptions of his organisation.
Rushed
"Frankly speaking, we just don't
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By James Basle and Alison Dellit
Canberra — Liberal and independent members of the House of Assembly on November 25 amended the ACT budget to block the cutting of 80 teacher positions. This victory was a response to the public campaign run by
Power brokers stunned
John Wilson, former president of the ACT Trades and Labor Council, individually black banned in his workplace by the PSU leadership and the TLC in an act of ALP factional hooliganism: "The election result has tipped the
By Frank Noakes
Charles Dickens writing during and of early industrial Britain (those glorious days extolled by Margaret Thatcher et al), relates that entry to public parks in the industrial towns was prohibitively expensive, except on Sunday
By Dave Riley
If you are considering taking up leisure as a career move, try this exercise: go home, put your feet up and rest. As each wave of relaxation wafts over you — as the days and then the weeks wear on — your enjoyment of such
SYDNEY — Greg Friend (King O'Malley) and Brett Ahern (Billy Hughes) argue about conscription in The Legend of King O'Malley at the New Theatre in Newtown. Written by Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis, directed by Matthew Samuel, The Legend is a
Jamaica?
Thanks for you article about race relations in Cuba, by Edwin and Jo Hoffman (GLW #124).
I would like at this point to bring in little Jamaica, only 90 miles south of Cuba, where I lived for many years. In both Haiti and Jamaica
Chiselled in Stone
Papalote
Larrikin Entertainment
Reviewed by Jorge Jorquera
This is a fantastic mix of Latin tunes and rhythms, in songs both original and traditional.
Papalote takes its name from a song about a kite-maker by the
By John Pilger
In his essay "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell wrote: "Political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and
Dragons in Distress: Asia's miracle economies in crisis
By Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld
Penguin, 1992. 346 pp.
Reviewed by Sean Healy
Few modern myths have been so pervasive, and yet so oppressive, as that of the "Asian tigers",
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