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Varied program for NSW literary festival

SYDNEY — The NSW Writers' Centre will host its annual literary festival, Spring Writing, on September 7-8. This year the festival will welcome international guests, Balmain writers, regional Australian writers, writers from non-English backgrounds

Anger at pro-business Tasmanian budget

By Natalie Woodlock HOBART — The minority Rundle Liberal government's first budget, which advocates deep cuts to public services, has been passed with the support of the Greens. Labor voted against it and pushed for amendments, though stating it

Radio highlights

International Voices: Wadhi Saadeh — Saadeh, from Lebanon, reads a selection of his poems to the live accompaniment of traditional musical instruments: "I try to give life to those who have died in a terrible war in Lebanon, or those people who

30th anniversary of the struggle for land rights

By Sally Mitchell DARWIN — August 23 was the 30th anniversary of the beginning of a struggle which ultimately forced the Australian government to recognise and legislate for Aboriginal rights to land. In 1966 at Wave Hill cattle station 200

Uncooking the nuclear books

Wings of Death: Nuclear Pollution and Human HealthBy Chris BusbyGreen Audit Books, Green Audit (Wales) Ltd, 1995340pp., £10.99Reviewed by Dot Tumney This book provides valuable ammunition for attacking the nuclear apologist on several fronts.

High school strike gathers momentum

By Natasha Simons High school student groups and Resistance in all states except Tasmania are stepping up preparations this week for a national high school strike. The strike will be held on August 29 so that high school students can join the

An antidote to economic 'rationalism'

Economics as a Social Science: Readings in Political EconomyGeorge Argyrous and Frank Stilwell (eds)Sydney: Pluto Press, 1996. $39.95Reviewed by Peter Harkness The book contains 56 short articles divided into four categories: "Economics as a Social

More action needed, say Canberra protesters

Beyond their blood-curdling accounts of the angry scenes at the doors of Parliament House, the establishment media studiously avoided reporting the depth of feeling of participants at the anti-Howard rally on August 19. From a safe distance inside

Project on lesbian domestic violence

NEWCASTLE — "We used to have friends over for tea. I always loved and dreaded it too. Great to see friends, but inevitably I would say something 'wrong' — not that I saw it at the time — and she just stopped talking to me for days. Then there

CFMEU solidarity with Indonesian trade unionists

By Mick Barclay and Vannessa Hearman CANBERRA — Nico Warouw, the international representative of the Indonesian People's Democratic Party (PRD), urged CFMEU seminar participants to support the release of all political prisoners and the growing

Government vandalises education

By Marina Cameron As expected, the federal budget included drastic cuts to higher education. Cuts to university operating grants of 5%, increases in the Higher Education Contribution Scheme within a new three-tier system, increases in the HECS

Protest against Howard in Hobart

HOBART — More than 1000 people protested on August 23 outside the Liberal Party state conference dinner at Wrest Point Casino, where Prime Minister John Howard spoke. Several union contingents, students, East Timor solidarity activists, Sexual