One year after Cairo
In a statement issued by the International Planned Parenthood Federation on World Population Day, July 11, secretary general Halfdan Mahler decried the gap between promises made at the Cairo International Conference on
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By Reihana Mohideen
Economics are very much the starting point for understanding Australian politics in 1995. The international pattern of growth without prosperity or a large decline in unemployment very much describes the Australian economy
By Dave Riley
Augusto Boal is a major figure in world theatre. Any contemporary discussion about taking theatre to the people, of popularising it and renewing its relevance, cannot proceed without reference to him. Enthusiastic exponents of his
MELBOURNE — About 30 members of the Timorese community gathered at Tullamarine Airport on July 20 to welcome 11 of the 18 Timorese boat people who arrived in Darwin on May 30.
By Alex Bainbridge
NEWCASTLE — BHP appears confident of little opposition to its plans to eliminate 2000 jobs from its steelworks here before 2002. This will leave only 1000 people employed by BHP in Newcastle, compared with approximately
Soul writing (8:01am)
By Brandon Astor Jones
It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time. — Francis J. Grimke (1850-1937)
People often ask, "What is a day on death row like?" Knowing that the
By Frank Gollan
SYDNEY — A restructure of one of Australia's largest unions threatens to gut democratic functioning and centralise control over the finances and staffing.
Voting on the proposed restructure of the PSU Group within the
By Roger Raven
Farmers were among the prime targets of the propaganda of economic rationalism. Many were persuaded of the view that tariffs imposed onerous burdens on the agricultural sector, and that the adoption of economic rationalism (and
Non-joker
@lctext = "You ask people here, and they'll tell you I never tell jokes." — Brendan Nelson, Liberal candidate for the safe federal seat of Bradfield, after a dirty joke at a Liberal fundraising dinner fell flat.
Trotskyist view
Guess what? They didn't mean it!
By Kath Gelber
@column = Even Labor Party women are starting to criticise their party for not taking seriously the goal of filling 35% of winnable seats with women candidates by the year 2000. The ALP
Cuba holds municipal elections
According to official figures, 97.1% of Cubans turned out on July 9 to elect delegates to 169 municipal assemblies.
According to the official statistics, 7,568,548 Cubans cast ballots out of a total 7,795,623
By Jennifer Thompson
"There were real massacres. We knew that this could happen. The Serbs have done this many times. That which is going on is genocide." These words, by Dutch economic development minister Pronk, were reported by Frankfurther
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