By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Ian who? Ian Taylor was the parliamentary leader of the WA ALP until his resignation on October 9. Following Carmen Lawrence's move to federal parliament in March, Taylor had been elected unopposed.
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Moura inquiry: warning signs existed
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Coal miners at the Moura No 2 mine, which suffered an explosion on August 7 killing 11 workers, have given evidence to the mining warden's inquiry at Gladstone that
SA public sector conditions threatened
By Trish Corcoran and Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Attacks on workers in the state public sector have been unrelenting since the election of the Brown Liberal government last December.
By Brian Rohan
As is almost always the case, when you come expecting fire, you usually get smoke.
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey was expected to come from Tyrone with plenty of fire, and a bit of brimstone too, but her appearances
Hotspur
By Geoffrey Atherden
Starring Ruth Cracknell and Garry McDonald
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Until December 10
Reviewed by Frank Noakes
Freddy Brown (Garry McDonald) enters stage left, quietly ushering
By Kest Courtice
Distorted, crunching, chainsaw-like guitars, drums like a jackhammer and vocals from hell. Someone once likened it to holding an electric drill against your forehead. Thrash music, hardcore, speed metal, call it what you
By Chow Wei-Cheng
LONDON — Some 100,000 people marched from Westminster to Hyde Park on October 9 in opposition to the repressive Criminal Justice Bill. The bill is a sharp attack on civil rights and will especially affect young people
By Adam Hanieh
ADELAIDE — It was enough to bring tears to the eyes of any True Believer. Two hundred people cram into the beer garden of the Exeter Hotel. The atmosphere is restless. Someone gets up and sings a few working-class songs.
Solving the problem of violence
By Wendy Robertson
This week, women all over the country and internationally will march in Reclaim the Night marches. These marches have traditionally been used to highlight violence against women
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — Despite a great deal of selfless work and a steady increase in their political authority, non-communist leftists in Russia have until now failed to establish a mass political organisation.
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A look into privatisation
A glimpse of the wonders of privatisation was provided on October 17 when a report tabled in the NSW parliament by the auditor-general, Tony Harris, dredged up the scandal of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel and similar
Arafat writes to prisoners
President Yasser Arafat sent a letter dated September 27 to the Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails, in reply to the many letters he has received.
In his letter, Arafat said, "I have read your
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