The good engineer
After the BallBy David WilliamsonWith Judi Farr, Peter Carroll, Jacki Weaver and Garry McDonaldSydney Opera House Drama TheatreUntil June 6 By Mark Stoyich
Australia's most successful man of the theatre has no sense of the
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By Barry Sheppard
Last year, the board of regents of California's university system voted to end affirmative action to help minorities gain admission. It claimed that affirmative action discriminated against whites. The results have been
Editorial: Free East Timor!
Free East Timor!
The ALP foreign affairs spokesperson, Laurie Brereton, on May 24 attacked foreign minister Alexander Downer for his "mealy mouthed failure" to call for the release of East Timorese resistance leader
By Francesca Davis
Even as the blockade at ERA's Jabiluka uranium mine site was broken up by the Tactical Response Group last week, the campaign to stop uranium mining in Kakadu was gathering support. That support is founded on a widespread
Privatisation blackmail
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — In the May 28 state budget, the Liberal government has tied funding for South Australia's ailing education and health systems to the privatisation of the electricity utility, ETSA. Treasurer
By Richard Southall
On May 1, the structure of employment services was transformed as provision was opened up to private companies. The Howard government claims that this partial privatisation will result in better services because the unemployed
Qld election and movement building
LANA HALPIN spoke to GRAHAM MATHEWS, the Democratic Socialist candidate for Brisbane Central in the May 13 Queensland election, about the Democratic Socialists' campaign. Question: Why are the Democratic
By Sarah Peart
Andi Arief was kidnapped by the Indonesian military from his brother's house in Lampung, Sumatra on March 28. For four weeks he was "disappeared". The military emphatically denied having detained him, despite eyewitness reports to
SYDNEY — On May 26, the NSW police force's latest victim was killed outside his grandmother's house. The Coalition Opposing Police Shootings (COPS) has called on the NSW police commissioner to immediately adopt English-style, unarmed beat policing.
Sorry Day in Canberra
By Kim Bullimore
CANBERRA — A variety of events were held here in the days leading up to national Sorry Day on May 26. The biggest was the "Coming Together" event at Commonwealth Park on May 24, to honour the "stolen
'Zimbabwe's Suharto must go'
By Norm Dixon
Inspired by the fall of Indonesian dictator Suharto, thousands of student demonstrators on May 28 marched through the streets of the capital, Harare, to demand the resignation of Zimbabwe president
Hundreds march in support of Jabiluka blockade
By Lachlan Malloch and Arun Pradhan
In response to the arrest of nine activists blockading the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine site by police on May 26, Sydney's Jabiluka Action Group (JAG) called an
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