BY JODY BETZIEN
MELBOURNE — Appearing alongside World Trade Organisation director-general Mike Moore during his February 6 visit here, federal trade minister Mark Vaile has announced a new government program to convince school students that "free
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Canberra: Anti-corporate teach-in. Sat
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
DARWIN — Two hundred people have marked the first anniversary of the death in custody of a young man sentenced to a 28-day jail sentence for stealing textas, in an emotional rally here on February 9 calling for an end to
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
DURBAN Lotus Park is a ghetto with a view. The unpainted, cracked,
leaking blocks of flats sit on a hill in Isipingo, south of Durban. In
the valley, you can seen the houses of the rich and, along the freeway,
you can
BY PETER BOYLE
Following the January 25 call by the Democratic Socialist Party for
a socialist electoral alliance to contest the coming federal elections,
a formation meeting on February 17 has been convened jointly by the DSP
and
BY TRISHA REIMERS
GEELONG — So heated were the different opinions that police had to be stationed at a February 6 meeting of 200 people to discuss the future of the Offshore Music Festival, which has been a regular occurence in the seaside town
I see the struggle of my people in a land so unjust
I try not to revert to racism
But there's very little you can trust
The governments make all these promises
Assuring us it will all be OK
Most of which are broken after election day
Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest
form to any child at any stage of development. Jerome Seymour Bruner,
from The Process of Education (1960)
No matter how young or old one might be, politics is open to
BY EVA CHENG
Whether the US economy is plunging into a recession is the $64 million question of the day. Preliminary data for the December quarter suggests that US gross domestic product was growing at an annual rate of only 1.4% at the end of
BY MAX LANE
Golkar chairperson Akbar Tanjung has accused the People's Democratic Party and two student activist organisations, Forkot and Jarkot, of being behind the burning down of its offices throughout East Java.
Jakarta's main daily, Kompas,
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