By Richard Giles
Get set for a credit card that is so smart it will be able to pay for goods at a distance with just a wave of your hand.
If you have a credit card or ATM card today, you can feed them into an automatic teller and they'll
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E.P. THOMPSON: Objections And Oppositions
By Bryan D. Palmer
Verso, 1994. 201 pp., $34.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Edward Thompson has inspired many on the left with his spicy brand of Marxist history and socialist agitation. Bryan
By Maureen Baker
PERTH — Up to 5000 people attended an anti-privatisation rally at lunchtime on April 12. The rally was initiated by the Trades and Labour Council in association with WA Council of Social Services (WACOSS) and the Evatt
Continuing our historical features on Vietnam and the movement against the war in the '60s and '70s is this interview with SANDRA HAWKER and HELEN JARVIS. Both became involved in the fight against the Vietnam War while students at the Australian
By Tim Dauth and Robynne Murphy
JOHANNESBURG — The South African Communist Party's Ninth Congress, held here April 6-8, was the second since the unbanning of the SACP. Opened by Eastern Cape Premier Raymond Mhlaba, chairperson of the SACP,
Correction
GLW #183 reported that the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1994 had been passed by the Senate on March 30. In fact, debate on this bill and the amendments being proposed by the Greens (WA) was deferred until the Senate
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — Less than a week after Labor's victory in the NSW election, the Civil Aviation Authority announced that aircraft movements at Kingsford Smith Airport would increase by 50% by the end of this year. New areas will be
ADELAIDE — The Public Service Association has criticised the state government for increasing the rent of country workers. An in principle decision would force government employees in state-owned accommodation to pay up to $10 per week more. Workers
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In Russia, April 1 — the "Day of Laughter" — often comes as a shock to people used to its tame counterpart in the English-speaking world. On this particular day, journalists are allowed to subvert their own
A mighty leap of logic
By Kath Gelber
"During the past ten years in Australia men have become the second sex." This proclamation headed up the Bulletin's cover story in its April 25 edition.
It's becoming an all too familiar refrain.