Real issues in republican debate
By Jonathon Strauss
In November, a referendum will be held on whether to make Australia a republic with a president as head of state, elected by a two-thirds majority of federal parliamentarians, or to retain the
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Self-determination now for East Timor!
The Indonesian government's half-hearted acknowledgment that the East Timorese people might have the right to decide whether they want their independence has raised the hopes of the East Timorese and their
Gibran Khalil GibranTAQA TheatreSt Patrick's Cathedral, ParramattaWednesday-Sunday, February 17-28, 8.30pmBookings phone 0416 116 716 Review by Jennifer Long
PARRAMATTA — The poet of solitude — Khalil Gibran — will be unearthed in the ruins
By Norm Dixon
The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) are furious at the African National Congress government's decision on February 5 to approve a deal to privatise water delivery
Cuban women show how it's done
Sí Señor! — Las Perlas del Son — Corasón through Larrikin/Festival Records Review By Melanie Sjoberg
One of the most exciting aspects of any music festival is the discovery of a fresh new
Free tickets to Men with Guns
Palace Cinemas are generously offering Green Left Weekly readers in Sydney and Melbourne 10 free double passes to see John Sayle's new release, Men with Guns.
Men with Guns, set in a mythical Latin American country,
Life after Patrick: back to the 'hungry mile'?
GRANT HOLDEN is a job delegate at P&O Ports, West Swanson Dock, in Melbourne. He was interviewed by SUSAN PRICE for the February 5 Friday Breakfast Show on Melbourne community radio 3CR. The
... and ain't I a woman?: Equal pay victory
After a two-year battle, Sydney electronics manufacturer HPM has finally agreed to union demands for an enterprise bargaining agreement ensuring equal pay for work of equal value. Women at this plant
By Allen Myers
On February 3, Helen Coonan, a Liberal senator from NSW and the government's deputy whip in the Senate, delivered a speech on "reform" of the Senate to the Sydney Institute, a right-wing think-tank. An abridged version of the speech,
By Anthony Benbowand Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — For the last 12 months, the Olsen Liberal government has been trying to privatise the state Electricity Trust (ETSA). A community and industrial campaign has so far thwarted Olsen's plan to ram the
State-sanctioned death
By Brandon Astor Jones
LIFE'S EMOTIONAL GUTTERTrying to wade through the treacherous middle-mire of the inner being's need for familial-stealthWe sometimes, quite inadvertently, encounter those ageless
Work for whom?
"It's more productive to work behind the scenes than grandstand with rhetoric." — Former foreign minister Gareth Evans, replying to remarks by Laurie Brereton about the ALP's record on East Timor.
Not really
"It was the biggest
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