By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — "The Goss Labor government's move to cut stamp duty on share trading is a blatant handout to big business, at a time when the corporations are making massive profits", Zanny Begg, Democratic Socialist candidate for
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Dili November 1991
By Egas Alves
Today in my city the sky to be cloudy
To turn off in the view of the sunrise
The town apparently to be with sadness
What melancholy will appear to the people who are living there?
Today in my
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: the inside story of the man who made modern China
By Zhisui Li
London: Chatto and Windus, 1994. 682 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Eva Cheng
Official history often only tells half truth and leaves out what the
By Sarah Stephen
Travelling from Madrid to the Basque region in the far north of Spain, I could feel a change in the political atmosphere. In the narrow cobblestone streets of Bilbao, colourful posters advertising upcoming rallies plastered the
Sydney Water estimates that it could cost $7 billion to clean up Sydney's waterways, and as part of its corporatisation obligations it must end the dry-weather discharge of effluent to waterways. Friends of the Earth's JOHN DENLAY reports on how a
Muchtar Pakpahan released
By Max Lane
Muchtar Pakpahan, chairperson of the Indonesian Workers for Prosperity Union (SBSI), was released from prison on May 19.
Pakpahan was arrested, tried and sentenced to three years' jail in November.
Right accuses ALP of sexism
By Alex Bainbridge
On May 13, Newcastle's sitting ALP federal member, Allan Morris, defeated a preselection challenge by Lyn Holmes. Holmes, losing 66 votes to 226, has since accused the ALP of being "sexist".
Too easy
By Brandon Astor Jones
"It was fun meeting other people, seeing what they're like ... they're really just like us." — Adrian Proby
When left to their own devices, we can usually depend upon children to cut through those
'Environment before profit' in Brisbane
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — The World Environment Day rally, to be held on June 3 with the theme "environment before profit", will be addressed by the CFMEU, the Wilderness Society, Resistance, HEMP,
By Lisa Macdonald
SYDNEY — More than 400 people attended a rally outside Parliament House here on May 23 calling for a halt to the privately owned and operated M2 tollway development, which threatens to lock nearly 300 square kilometres of
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