By Tony Smith
Keating's call — one might almost say "threat" — to business to invest some profits to prevent a wages push is yet another signal that he is bereft of foresight.
Throughout the '80s, Keating's economic "leadership" was of
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Youths held in adult jail
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Queensland Aboriginal and Islanders Legal Service vice-president Sam Watson said on March 22 that the service would appeal to the High Court or even the United Nations to "stop children
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Early in March a parliamentary deputy from Orenburg province in the southern Urals contacted Greenpeace Russia with alarming news.
Shunted up a side track just outside the town of Svetly were 16 open-topped
North Korea: don't be confused
"Chaos. Corruption. Civil war. He's back to lay down the law" runs the promo for Hollywood's latest extravaganza of violence, Robocop 3. It just about describes US policy on North Korea.
The US-supported
By Peter Montague
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, somewhere between 2 and 4 million US children have sufficient lead in their blood to diminish their IQ, reduce their physical stature, damage their hearing, decrease their
Songs and stories of Australia — Kev Carmody: Singer and Storyteller — A program recorded in conversational style. Through his folk songs and storytelling, Carmody reflects on the cultural differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
Clutching at straws
I must endorse, with feeling, the recent WET Tank's award of the brass tampon to the Court government of WA for monumental incompetence and uselessness.
Not only have we had Court denouncing the Gay Mardi Gras with the
"To me Dili was a really nice place, very peaceful. Everyone was free, living life without much planning for the future", Timorese painter Sebastiao Silva recalls his home, which he left behind in 1984, prior to the Indonesian invasion.
It is
By Pat Brewer
The Brazilian Workers Party (PT) has been tipped by many commentators to become part of a new government in the country's national elections in October. The PT is part of an electoral alliance with a variety of progressive parties,
Rail workers picket Goss
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — More than 100 angry rail workers booed Queensland Premier Wayne Goss outside a Labor Party function in Townsville on March 23 over plans to close the Townsville railway workshops by the
Environmental rally
By Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — Nearly 500 people gathered for a rally outside Parliament House on March 24 to oppose the Hindmarsh Island Bridge project, the Craigburn Farm subdivision and the development of the Mt
The Pelican Brief
With Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington
Reviewed by Arun Pradhan
It sounds like a good idea: rework the familiar Watergate plot, get some big names like Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington, chuck in some suspense and
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