By Pip Hinman and Sally Mitchell
The government's decision to slash the budget of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) is petty and racist. In national monetary terms, the government's "saving" of $400 million over the next
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By Marina Cameron
"The suddenness with which a goods and services tax has regained respectability is remarkable", wrote Michael James, from the ANU's Faculty of Economic and Commerce, in the August 15 Financial Review. Only the day before, the
"... the signs are ominous and very evident and a chill wind blows". US Supreme Court Justice Blackman expressed his concern when, in July 1989, the Supreme Court (stacked with Ronald Reagan appointees) upheld a Missouri state law banning the
30-year battle to ban the burn
1965: Waverley and Woollahra councils apply to build an incinerator in Botany Road, Waterloo. The City of Sydney Council refuses the application.
1966: The case goes to the Land and Valuation Court. The incinerator
Cuban rightist: US could have saved plane
Jose Basulto, leader of the right-wing Miami-based organisation "Brothers to the Rescue", gave a press conference at the US House of Representatives on July 31 and handed over documents suggesting that US
A listen mission
"Were we not so eager to look upon prisoners through such a vengeful prism, it would be easier to see the abundance of remorse in prison." — Irving Elmer Bell
So then, I wish to speak for those of us who have changed
Remorse
Sand mining operations opposed
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Conservationists rallied on North Stradbroke Island on August 18 to call for an end to sand mining operations, in the face of allegations that the company involved, Consolidated Rutile
By Amanda Day
MELBOURNE — On August 16, a larger than expected contingent of 1000 secondary students rallied against the federal government's proposals to slash education and associated funding in the up-coming budget. Early estimates indicate
By Lisa Macdonald
Just three years after decisively rejecting Liberal leader John Hewson's Fightback! strategy at the polls, the Australian people are having it foisted on them again, this time by a smarter John Howard, who concealed it beneath a
Coalition feigns anti-nuclear stand
By Pip Hinman
In an apparent about-face, the federal Coalition government has welcomed the report from the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. According to Alexander Downer, the report
What's left in the USA? — In the belly of the beast, the left and progressive movement is alive and well on the Web. Here are just a few sites worth investigating: Z-Net (http://www.lbbs.org/), billed as "home of the US Left". Among its offerings
Tax workers suspend bans
By Chris Slee
Community and Public Sector Union members employed by the Australian Taxation Office have voted in favour of the tax division executive's proposal to suspend the bans campaign and to resume it on September
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