By Anthony Brown BRISBANE — Musgrave Park has long been important to the city's indigenous people. It is a part of Kurilpa or "place of the water rats" which include West End, South Brisbane and Highgate Hill which form a triangle on this bend of
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The findings of the Marks Royal Commission that federal health minister Carmen Lawrence lied to the WA parliament and the public about her role in the 1992 tabling of the Easton petition should come as no surprise. Lying is endemic to maintaining the
By Eva Cheng Some 800,000 federal workers were forced to stand down from November 15 after US President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, vetoed two related funding bills passed by the Republican-dominated Congress. The bills were structured to deprive
By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — "The New Zealand Alliance experiment has some exciting lessons for Australia", Matt McCarten, secretary/organiser of the NZ Alliance, told a public meeting to launch a new book on the prospects for an Australian alliance
Does our economic stability require that some ... of the population be kept in poverty? — Max Frankel on "What the Poor Deserve", the New York Times. I saw a very poignant cartoon recently. It was a nine frame panel by Matt Groening. He uses the
SYDNEY — Fifty environmentalists protested outside the annual general meeting of Boral at the Wentworth Hotel. They demanded that Boral, one of the largest woodchipping companies in Australia, cease its operations. Photo by Ken Bansgrove.
By Philippa Stanford ADELAIDE — South Australia's mental health services were under-funded, disorganised and excluded some patients, according to a report prepared for Disability Action and the Health and Social Welfare Council. The report, "Beyond
No Entry: Protest in the ParkA Photo EssayBy Nina LandisIntroduction by John PilgerForeword by Iain StewartPublished by Save Albert Park 1995Pre-order price $40Reviewed by Jeremy Smith No Entry is a public record of the struggle to keep Albert Park a
ADELAIDE — The Australian Greens have announced that they will be running in South Australia for the first time in the upcoming federal elections. Green Left Weekly's EMMA WEBB spoke to STEPHEN SPENCE, state convenor of the Australian Greens (SA).
Craig Cormick Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Nigeria forms new heads of
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