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By Jennifer Long SYDNEY — The aroma of one of the federal election's neglected issues is seeping through the cracks of the Liberal and Labor campaign bunkers: the continuing saga of the Sydney airport. Residents in Sydney's inner-west and eastern
By Vannessa Hearman MELBOURNE — Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has recently returned from a tour of south-east Asia. On September 17, he said that he had offered the Indonesian regime aid to get through the economic crisis. Kennett offered to
By John Percy SYDNEY — "Bury MAI" was the title of a September 25 public meeting here to discuss the implications of the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment. The MAI, which is being negotiated by countries, including Australia,
By Greg Adamson In the last three decades, Australian secondary students have stood up for their rights time after time. In many, probably most cases, secondary student activists in Resistance have been among their leaders. In every case, charges
Write on: Letters to the editor Festival of the boot On Tuesday (September 22) morning, police reinforcements were called into Rundle Mall over fears that the hundreds gathered outside the Myer Centre would turn violent and riot. What's this?
Clinton: 'high crimes and misdemeanours' By Barry Sheppard The release of independent council Kenneth Starr's report outlining 11 charges against US President Bill Clinton, which Starr says "may" represent impeachable offenses, has set off a
By Virginia Brown MELBOURNE — The Reclaim the Night (RTN) collective hosted a "meet the candidates" forum here on September 24. All parties contesting the federal election were invited to speak about what they would do for women if elected. The
By Sue Boland Now that the opinion polls are showing a slim majority against a goods and services tax (GST), big business is getting worried. While capitalists know the Labor Party is no threat to their profits, it isn't offering what the Coalition
ERA office firebombed By Peter Johnston DARWIN — About 2am on September 21, two Molotov cocktails were thrown through an office window of the Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) premises here. Damage was estimated at more than $100,000. Police
By Peter Gellert MEXICO CITY — Severe floods in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have left more than a 250,000 homeless and have taken the lives of between 500 and 3000 people. Torrential rains began on September 7 and have continued since.

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