By Pip Hinman Big business is salivating at the prospect of appropriating an even greater share of the country's wealth under a Coalition government. But given that John Howard says he intends to honour his $6.4 billion election promises despite a
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By Neil Eveleigh BRISBANE — ASIET (Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor) hosted a forum at the Resistance Centre on February 29 on "East Timor and Australian foreign policy". The forum included speakers from the Australian Democrats,
By Allen Myers Step right this way, ladies and gentlemen, and I'll introduce you to your new parliament. In here is the House of Representatives. Let's start with the opposition. It's easier to deal with them, because there are so few. In fact, it's
By Chris Raab The four 1995 editors of the La Trobe University student paper Rabelais are being threatened with six years' jail and a possible $72,000 fine each. An increasing number of students in Victoria are being arrested and charged with a
By Pip Hinman The big business press has been playing up incoming PM John Howard's "mandate" to encourage him to fast-track the deregulation of the labour market and micro-economic "reform" (as well as dump many of his pre-election promises). But
The Demidenko FileJohn Jost, Gianna Totaro, Christine Tyshing, (eds)Penguin, 1996, 300 pp., $14.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Helen Darville's prize-winning novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, is an anti-Semitic apology for the Holocaust. Yet
By Lisa Macdonald Despite the large number of small progressive parties and independents contesting the federal elections on March 2, the vote for these alternatives was relatively low. The Australian Democrats, promoted by the establishment media
Election Aftermath: Woe Is Me Let us face facts. Coffee has shattered our nerves; takeaways make us slaves to indigestion; Joseph Stalin has made us shrink from the name of socialism, and has destroyed, in the more refined part of the community (of
Palimpsest: A MemoirBy Gore VidalAndre Deutsch: 435 pp.Reviewed by Dave Riley On the final page of this book, Gore Vidal informs us that the actor Paul Newman has just rung and proposes dinner with the Clintons. Why not? "Since no one else is talking
By Norman Solomon The news should have caused a national uproar. In a decision with momentous implications, the new World Trade Organisation ruled that the US law known as the Clean Air Act is unacceptable because of restrictions it places on
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