Greens, socialists contest NT election
In the Northern Territory elections on August 30, one Democratic Socialist and two Greens candidates will challenge the Country-Liberal Party's anti-native title and Labor's "law and order" scare campaigns.
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Why socialists oppose terrorist actions
By Doug Lorimer
On July 30, two bomb blasts in a crowded marketplace in west Jerusalem caused the deaths of 14 civilians. The Israeli government's use of this terrorist act as a pretext to
Ian Roberts: Finding OutBy Paul FreemanRandom House, 1997, 325 pp.,$29.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
"AIDS will finish you in hell. SODOMIST. An arsehole bandit. You are pure filth and will die SOON!". Thus ran one of the letters to Ian Roberts
By Sarah Stephen
One hundred years ago, women who wanted to educate themselves were sneered at and called "blue stockings". This label accused them of masquerading as men — at the time, male intellectuals were depicted as wearing blue
Sexuality and youth suicide: Coalition denies reality
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Every year in Australia as many people commit suicide as die in road accidents. In Western Australia, in 1995 (the most recent figures), there were 209
MYINT THU and YE WIN are both in the 30-member central committee of the All Burma Student Democratic Front, formed after the students led a million-strong uprising nine years ago. Like other democratic activists, ABSDF members had to flee the
Medicare the loser in bid to shore up private health
By Susan Laszlo
Just a few days after federal health minister Dr Michael Wooldridge announced new measures supporting private health insurance, figures released by the Private Health
Medieval
"A big company is like a medieval court because the person in charge has unquestioned power." — Paul Birch, employed as a "corporate jester" to lighten the mood at British Airways.
Trendy
"There is no reason why women should
By Sarah Stephen and Marina Cameron
On university campuses there have been increasing attacks on the idea of having women's officers and women's rooms. Arguments against women's right and need to organise separately have also been raised. These
Stranger danger
You're not to know, are you? I could have shaken hands with one of them or shared a confessional with another. To go by the news reports, they lurk any and everywhere — just waiting to pounce on the unsuspecting and the
What's Up Dockers?SBS TV, Sunday, August 318.30pm (8 in SA)Edited by Channel 4 Strike, the Flickering Flame — A Story of Contemporary MoralityDirected by Ken LoachSBS TV, Sunday September 7 8.30pm (8 in SA)
Review by James Vassilopoulos
By Sylvia Hale
SYDNEY — Marrickville Council at its August meeting unanimously declined to ban Pauline Hanson's One Nation party from using council facilities. Ashfield Council had, only weeks before, voted unanimously to support such a ban.
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