Victorian hospital jobs under threat
By Seetal Dodd
MELBOURNE — Jobs and job security are under threat at the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, formed in a recent amalgamation between Heidelberg and Austin hospitals in Melbourne's
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
By Gore Vidal
Abacus, 1994. 1295 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Gore Vidal has, for most of his 70 years, been writing novels, plays, essays and journalism in a brave attempt to hold back the
Meeting supports sexuality bill
By Leon Harrison
PERTH — On April 4, 25 members of Perth's gay community met with Australian Democrat Sid Spindler to support his proposed bill to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexuality.
Lesbian Sex
By the ACON Women's Team 1994 (Women and AIDS Project & Glidup)
Reviewed by Kath Gelber
"This booklet is for anyone who identifies as a woman and who has sex with other women", proclaims the first line in this informative
By a US death row prisoner
How do people end up on death row? Many would answer this question a million ways. Problems with family, the way you are raised, being poor, drugs etc. There is pressure upon the president. The way they run this
Employable
"With my skills in life, I am employable elsewhere." — NSW Labor right MLA Bob Martin, threatening to resign and cause a by-election if he was dropped from the front bench.
Loyalty
"If you only want to run for the big jobs, what
Hilton explosion
I am not quite sure of the point of attempting to maintain that what happened outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel on 13 February 1978 was not a bombing as Joan Coxsedge and Gerry Harant do in their article "Fallout from an
Not Necessarily Stoned
Society
Through Disculture
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This terrific little CD single, by Sydney-based band Society, came as a pleasant surprise when I popped it onto my stereo. Two extended tracks focus on issues that
Studs Terkel's Chicago
SBS, Thursday, April 20, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
Studs Terkel is one of the United States' most celebrated radical writers. In his long life he has been a gangster (at least in radio soap operas), a DJ, a
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — A major factional spill during last year's state ALP conference dismembered the party's left wing. Two key left unions — the Miscellaneous Workers' Union and the metalworkers — allied themselves with factions of
By Lisa Macdonald
Two weeks ago, the ALP, Coalition and Australian Democrats voted themselves a windfall totalling over $15 million.
The Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1994, passed by the Senate on March 30, was a deal
Bump me into parliament
Dave Riley
How do you reckon I'd go as prime minister? It's a thought, isn't it? Instead of the glint from John Howard's glasses, the light at the end of the tunnel could be me.
Of course, I'd keep doing these
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