The well-worn path
The decision of ACTU president Martin Ferguson to seek preselection for the safe Melbourne Labor seat of Batman is no surprise. A spate of departures from the trade union bureaucracy suggests that the same rats who gnawed
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By M.S. Somasundar
The war against human deprivation has to be waged at many levels and in many arenas, one of which is food. What is done with new crop seeds has much to do with who controls the entire food system.
Control over new crop
SA meeting discusses anti-fees campaign
ADELAIDE — Politics in the Pub on June 28, on the theme of "Winning the Fight for Free Public Education", was organised by the South Australian Education Network (SAEN) as part of the national No Fees
By Pip Hinman
Soon, 50% of all prisoners in Victoria will be in private prisons, according to Shelley Burchfield, a community lawyer at the Coburg-Brunswick Legal Centre.
In June, the Victorian government announced that it would most likely
Terra Nullius "Oral tradition was established through different means, through passing on custodianship and clan structure, and this could easily be ignored by Europeans coming into the country who only recognised the written word", says Professor
By Claudine Holt
For nearly a century, the ALP has dominated political life on the left in this country. How to relate to the Labor Party has been a question that has racked the brains of generations of Australian radicals. Is it a vehicle for
By Norm Dixon
The worldwide uproar over the French government's decision to resume nuclear tests in the Pacific has been fuelled by the violent seizure of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior off Moruroa atoll on July 9. Protests were
Masculinities
By R.W. Connell
Allen and Unwin, 1995.
Reviewed by Chris Slee
In recent years, an increasing number of books have been written about men's problems. These books have varied greatly. Some are progressive, questioning the
Seminar challenges privatisation
By Rob Graham and Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Widespread concern and opposition to privatisation were demonstrated here on June 28-29, when 100 people attended a seminar, "Selling off the State".
Opus 1
Pan African Orchestra
Real World through Larrikin Entertainment
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This brilliant, ambitious and beautiful recording is a welcome reminder that it is crude and inadequate to bunch the complex and varied musical
By Richard Horsey
Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was released on July 10 after six years under house arrest.
A spokesman for the Burmese junta confirmed that her release was unconditional, and said
An open letter
By Brandon Astor Jones
Liberation is a dialectical movement ... women's liberation in the revolution is inseparable from the liberation of [men]. — Angela Davis.
Your letter arrived yesterday. Thank you. I am glad to
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