That's History — The Last Big Dig — Historian Grace Karskens and a team of archaeologists have begun a major dig in Sydney's historic Rocks area. As each layer of the past is unearthed, the team hopes to evaluate the impact of the industrial
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Wollombi to host folk festival
The Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club will hold its fourth annual Folk Festival at Wollombi September 9-11. Starting on Friday night at 8, the festival will run through to Sunday afternoon.
Spokesperson
Timorese guerillas stand firm
By Jon Land
Claims by the Indonesian military that it is scaling down operations in East Timor and that the armed wing of the East Timorese resistance, FALINTIL (Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East
The French Revolution
By George Rude
Phoenix, 1994. 224 pp., $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"The great appear great to us merely because we are on our knees. Let us rise!" So proclaimed the revolutionary journalist Camille Desmoulins
By Jennifer Thompson
The August 29 signing of an agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel on education, health, taxation, social welfare and other issues is another step in the peace process. This agreement was preceded
Young people in crisis
By Julia Perkins
The federal government's May 4 white paper emphasises the need for a skilled work force. This means, practically, a focus on increased school retention rates, retraining of long-term unemployed and
By Sally Thompson and Alex Bainbridge
MELBOURNE — In what has been described as "a great victory for civil rights", charges against the Austudy Five were dropped on September 1 after less than three hours in court and a two and a half year
By Allen Myers
CLEVELAND — Nearly 200 members and guests of the US socialist organisation Solidarity attended a week-long school and convention here August 15-21. Participants came from across the United States and from Mexico, Canada, the
Right to Lifer
By Elena Garcia
You make me so angry!
You claim to want to help.
"Any stressed mother can come to me" you say.
"Respect all life!"
But where is your respect for mine?
To you,
a speck of my cells
is more
By Russel Norman
The eighth General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), signed earlier this year, promises to deliver more on free trade than any of its predecessors. Within its 20,000 pages are agreements reducing restrictions on trade in
By Sarah Stephen
CANBERRA — For the last four weeks, students at the Australian National University (ANU) have been organising a campaign against what appears to be a "litmus test" for the introduction of up-front fees in universities
By Robyn Marshall
In the August 21 national elections in Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, presidential candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), won the ballot with 50% of the vote. The conservative National Action
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