By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Premier Jeff Kennett's dream of a privatised Victoria moved one step closer to reality on August 7, with the announcement of the sale of the first of Victoria's energy suppliers. United Energy, one of the five
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The UnderneathDirected by Steven Soderbergh Academy Twin and Valhalla Cinemas, SydneyReviewed by Peter Boyle
Steven Soderbergh (of Sex, Lies and Videotape fame) has his audience on the edge of their seats through this movie about the shifting
By Estoy Evangelista
More than 4 million Filipino overseas contract workers are scattered all over the world. Add the Filipinos who have permanently migrated to other countries, and this number would easily reach 10 million (out of a total
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Schools across the state were thrown into confusion by an acceleration of work bans on August 23, as part of a campaign to defend around 500 services officers' positions under attack from the Liberal government.
By James Balowski
On August 17, the Indonesian minister of justice, Oetojo Oesman, announced that seven prisoners, including two long-serving political prisoners, are soon to be executed. These will be the first political executions since
Memorial meeting for Ernest Mandel By John Percy
SYDNEY — More than 90 people filled the Resistance Centre here on August 20 to honour the memory of Ernest Mandel, world-renowned Marxist scholar and revolutionary who died in Belgium on July
FBI on Air? — FBI (Free Broadcast Inc) is a new non-profit organisation which hopes to be granted a radio licence in Sydney. It will focus on being an outlet for local talent in music, performance and comedy as well as public affairs programs
By Jennifer Thompson
An August 20 statement by the Solidarity Bureau in Brussels declared the end of a hunger strike by 10,000 Kurdish prisoners in Turkish jails and hundreds of supporters in other countries. It said that the strike, begun on
By Lisa Macdonald
The world today is dominated by the fact that, despite human beings' capacity for rational thought, our society is thoroughly irrational. The issue of nuclear weapons provides a good example. Society has developed and harnessed a
Battling for credibility John Howard squeezed as much mileage as he could from an invitation to a Collingwood football club dinner recently. Asked whether he wouldn't feel more comfortable at a Carlton club dinner, Howard retorted that if
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