Harassment by other names
March 31, in case you missed it, was Secretary's Day. Yet another invention of the creative capitalist market mind which serves to guilt-trip people into buying commodities to make someone else — in this case the
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The Campaign Against Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Filipino Women (CAST) is conducting an exposure/study tour to the Philippines from June 19 to July 4. The objectives of the tour are to expose the participants to the realities of the sex trade
Comment by Dave Riley
Roger Clarke's brave attempt in the pages of Green Left Weekly to encourage us not to forsake the Labor Party has contributed nothing new to a perennial debate. Roger's gall is his attempt to sweeten the bitter pill of
Actively Radical TV: The Unteachables — Looks at why young people in inner Sydney are pushed out of the education system. CTS (UHF 31, Sydney), Friday, April 6, 10.30pm (repeated Saturday, April 8, 10.30pm).
Movie: Mystery Train (1989) — Jim
April 30 is the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam. The war and the fight against it were important influences on world politics at the time and continue to affect attitudes and ideas today. In coming
Harold
Written and directed by Steve Thomas
A Flying Carpet Films production
ABC TV, Sunday, April 9, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This intriguing documentary reveals the story of Harold Blair, one of Australia's greatest opera singers
By Deb Sorensen
Darwin — Danila Dilba Aboriginal Health Clinic, Darwin's only Aboriginal-run and controlled clinic, has been given temporary reprieve from an ongoing funding crisis. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Commission (ATSIC)
Duty calls
"Cabinet members should be more deeply involved in issues, and some of them might care to stay in Australia and do some work. It's been hard to find them in Australia this year." — Federal Labor backbencher Peter Cleeland, MP for
By Lisa Macdonald
SYDNEY — The people of NSW gave a decisive thumbs down to "politics as usual" in the state election on March 25. The 1.5% swing away from the Liberal-National Coalition, the fact that the ALP just managed to limp over the
GABRIEL TETIARAHI is the national coordinator of the French Polynesian organisation Hiti Tau, which brings together 40 non-government groups working on environmental, sovereignty and social issues. He recently visited Australia, where he provided a
By Jo Brown
MELBOURNE — The Marxist educational conference, "Campaigning for democratic socialism", to be held here over Easter, is shaping up as a major event on the city's left calendar.
To be held at the Lincoln Institute (625 Swanston
Pity the Swiss
If Paul Keating is looking for reasons for the massive swing against the Labor Party in the Canberra by-election he will find that people are concerned about the government's superficial approach to the environment, the stripping
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