A short story by Craig Cormick
Oh shit! It can't be. Robert-Bloody-Menzies! He looks just like Robert-Bloody-Menzies. Right down to the eyebrows and turned up collar. I stare real hard, but try not to look like I'm staring. You know what it's like
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Burke's BackyardChannel 9Fridays, 7.30pm Reviewed by Al McCall
Since Australia missed out on feudalism, any new chum arriving in the antipodes was surely keen on a piece of land to call their own. Aside from the fact that the previous owners
'Marcos is gay'
Some time ago, in an attempt to discredit one of the Zapatista leaders in southern Mexico, Sub-comandante Marcos, government officials there tried to put forth the idea that Marcos was gay. In a region where machismo still runs
By Boris Kagarlitsky
On the topic of the Russian Revolution, it might appear that everything worth saying has already been said. Throughout the Soviet decades, leftists repeatedly cited Trotsky and his biographer Isaac Deutscher on the bureaucratic
Greenhouse action planned
ADELAIDE — After receiving numerous inquiries about the greenhouse national day of action planned for November 30, the Australian Conservation Foundation has called a meeting to organise a bike rally. All interested
By James Vassilopoulos
According to Mick Kelly, vice-president of the northern districts of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, there was a "very strong likelihood" that the Australian Industrial Relations Commission would
Democratic Socialists launch ACT election campaign
By Paul Oboohov
CANBERRA — The Democratic Socialist campaign for the ACT elections in February was launched on October 24. The audience of 40 also celebrated the official registration of the
By Frances Kelly
SYDNEY — Whinge about something often enough via talkback radio and, no matter how much it reeks of myth and misinformation, the NSW government might start listening. In the case of attacks on the fundamental conservation purpose
Foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer has repeated his position that there will be no further inquiry into the killing of six journalists in East Timor in 1975. "We can't keep having inquiry after inquiry after inquiry into this incident, which
By Norm Dixon
Zimbabwe's impoverished farm workers have won a hefty wage increase as a result of their first organised national strike against the country's 4000 wealthy, predominantly white, commercial farmers. Farm workers, who walked out at the