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Loose cannons

Tough if you're not in business "Addressing a conference of all Labor candidates and campaign directors ... [NSW Labor Premier Bob] Carr painted the Labor Government as a tough law enforcer ... and a keen promoter of business interests." — Sydney

Labor and Liberal: false friends of East Timor

By Jon Land After the fall of Indonesian dictator Suharto in May, the independence struggle in East Timor entered a new phase; a major obstacle to freedom was removed. In Australia, the Howard government and the Labor opposition welcomed Suharto's

Write on: Letters to the editor

Write on: Letters to the editor Non-competitive games I've been reading and watching the news and there have been stories about possible corruption in the Olympic Games movement and another story about steroids use by sports people. There are

ACTEW privatisation victory

ACTEW privatisation victory By James Vassilopoulos Unions scored an important victory on February 2, when the Legislative Assembly voted down the government's proposal to privatise the Australian Capital Territory Electricity and Water (ACTEW).

The struggle for gay and lesbian rights in Indonesia

DEDE OETOMO is coordinator of Gaya Nusantara, a national gay rights group in Indonesia. He is currently visiting Australia and will address the Indonesian Solidarity Dinner at the Resistance Centre in Sydney on February 19 (details below). Last

Suspension of needle exchange increases HIV risk

Suspension of needle exchange increases HIV risk By Tom Flanagan SYDNEY — "Redfern is surely one of the most urgent and obvious places in NSW for a government-funded injecting room. It is not the place to suspend a needle exchange program",

12 months of Australian political cartoons

12 months of Australian political cartoons By Kim Bullimore CANBERRA — The last 12 months have generated some of the most heated debates in recent Australian political history. Events such as Patrick's sacking of its entire work force, the

The year 208

Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary CountdownBy Stephen Jay GouldVintage, 1998190 pp., $17.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon This may be the only occasion in the history of Green Left Weekly when the following

You can't leave it to parliament

You can't leave it to parliament @box text int = When the Kennett government was first elected in Victoria, it announced a series of cutbacks and attacks in rapid succession, hoping that any potential opposition would be stunned into inaction.

Step up the anti-VSU campaign!

By Wendy Robertson At its last meeting, the National Union of Students (NUS) national executive decided it would not call a nationally coordinated day of action against the proposed introduction of voluntary student unionism (VSU) until May 6,

US has another kind of drug problem

By Peter Montague A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association in April 1998 estimated that adverse reactions to prescription drugs kill about 106,000 people in the USA each year — roughly three times as many as are killed by

Packer we ain't

Last year, hundreds of Green Left Weekly supporters generously donated to the fighting fund. Contributions came in all sizes — ranging from $5 to $5000. Green Left Weekly would like to extend a big "thank you" to all of those who donated money,