By Peter Montague
The New York Times recently described a dark trend. In the US, and overseas, the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the people in the middle are becoming less and less secure about their future. And
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Campaign to free political prisoner in Chile
Maria Cristina San Juan was arrested in March 1992 together with her husband and son. Since then she has been accused of terrorism and sentenced to life imprisonment. Currently she is at St
NSW teachers vote to strike
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — By a vote of 98%, NSW teachers at statewide stop-work meetings on November 10 endorsed a wage campaign of 10%, backed by a 24-hour strike on November 23. The meetings had
By Lynne Segal
Feminist sex radicals (who in these times are almost always lesbians) have repeatedly challenged heterosexual feminists "to come out of the closet". We're still waiting, they tell us, wearily, for you to discuss your
Goss drops freeway publicity
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Goss government has shelved plans for early public consultation in planning Brisbane's next major freeway.
Publication of a map showing the likely route of
Comment by Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — The choice of former Labor premier Joan Kirner as chair of this year's Reclaim the Night rally here ignores the anti-woman policies enacted by her government.
In her speech, Kirner
Billy Hughes
I hear the WWF will put W.M.(Billy) Hughes in the famous wharfies' mural at 63 Sussex St.,Sydney.
Billy Hughes tried to conscript all of Australia's youth for the human slaughter-house in France. He tried to
YVONNE FRANCIS attended the Australian Forest Conference, held on October 24-25 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Here she presents her impressions.
After the first day, I reckoned that this was going to be the best holiday
Editorial: Racism: education, not legislation
The federal government's controversial Racial Hatred Bill will amend the Crimes Act to make it a criminal offence to incite racial hatred "against a person or a group of persons on the ground
With the economy growing rapidly, DICK NICHOLS looks at the prospects for an extended upturn.
As a group, Australia's economic forecasters have a rather poor record. Few predicted the heights that interest rates would reach in 1988-89;