Checkmate by Bishop?
To paraphrase Paul Keating, every pet shop galah is talking about Bronwyn Bishop. Bishop has been elevated to almost regal status by a delighted Canberra press gallery starved of any real political debate between the two
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Life or death
[Brandon Astor Jones, who writes the weekly Looking Out column from his cell on death row in the United States, has sent us the following appeal. We urge those readers who are able to do so to respond.]
Judge P. Harris Hines,
By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — In the weeks after Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party polled strongly in the Russian parliamentary elections, a phrase constantly on the lips of government supporters was "the threat of fascism". On
By Greg Adamson
CANBERRA — Residents and supporters of Ainslie Village, a low-income accommodation area, have maintained a 24-hour picket since January 16 in protest at hostile management activities. The picket has drawn broad community
The Coming Out Show — The Life of Gloria Lee, an 85 year-old whose mother was an Aboriginal woman of the Western Arrente people; her father was Chinese. This programs follows Gloria through her childhood in Alice Springs, her adolescence in China
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — On January 17, only a week before the start of the school term, the Directorate of School Education finally announced some details on the proposed Richmond coeducational facility.
The announcement was made nearly
Supermarkets break trading laws
By Kest Courtice
HOBART — Tasmania's Purity supermarket chain opened all day on Saturday, January 8, contravening Tasmanian law. On the following Saturday, Coles also opened all day.
The Retail
CAPOW conference
By Kath Tucker
The first conference of the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women (CAPOW) was very successful, conference organiser Ingrid Fitzgerald told Green Left Weekly.
CAPOW is a network of
By Annolies Truman
SYDNEY — Calls for the formation of an indigenous Australian church, compulsory Aboriginal and Islander studies in theological colleges and the enactment of a "Social Justice Package" to address needs not met by the Native
CLAUDETTE BEGIN and ALEX CHIS are both members of the Committees of Correspondence, a 2000-strong socialist regroupment project in the US. In Australia for the Democratic Socialist Party's annual conference, they spoke to FRANK NOAKES and CATHERINE
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