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BY OREN YIFTACHEL On February 6, Israel elected its first settler prime minister. Premier-elect Ariel Sharon, who gave his negotiators 10 days to forge a “national unity” government with Labour, maintains an official residence in Old
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI Universities resume this week and, amongst left-wing student activists at least, there's a mood of enthusiasm, a desire to ignite the campuses with the new anti-corporate mood. But the question student activists face is: how?
In 1993 women contributed the monetary equivalent of more than US$11 trillion worth of unpaid household work to the global economy — equal to more than a third of the world's gross domestic product. Today, 140 million Indonesians are living below
BY SARAH PEART MELBOURNE — Major industrial unions look set to back the planned May 1 blockade of this city's stock exchange and nearby corporate headquarters, which is continuing to pick up steam both here and around the country.
You can bet on it Have you ever wondered why, if we're doing so well, the country has a gambling problem? In terms of ockerism, perhaps you could dismiss it with references to two-up or the gee-gees. What could be more Australian than having a
BY COLIN CLEARY The provincial industrial centre where I work as a relief teacher is not the prettiest or the most prosperous in the state. A good half of it consists of housing commission dwellings erected in a burst of Menzies-era optimism that
BY JON LAND The Australian government is attempting to prevent East Timor from gaining full sovereign rights over vast oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea that are expected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties over the next 20
Adelaide International Women's Day Collective meeting. Sat Feb 17 (& every Sat), noon-2pm. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, Nth Adelaide. Ph 8231 6982. Women fighting for global justice against corporate tyranny. International
BY JIM GREEN The PNG Environment Watch Group has condemned Australian mining company BHP's plans to pull out of the Ok Tedi copper mine in Papua New Guinea without rehabilitating the site. BHP, which announced a record A$1.43 billion profit for
The Cherry PickersWritten by Kevin GilbertSydney Theatre CompanyDirected by Wesley EnochPlaying at the Wharf 2 Theatre, Walsh Bay, SydneyUntil March 4 REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE We laughed, cried, felt uplifted, some felt offended — one blackfella
BY TOM WILSON HOBART — Forestry Tasmania should change its name to Jackboot Tasmania, if its recent antics are anything to go by. In its latest move, the authority has resorted to unlawful threats and intimidation in a desperate attempt to cover
BY IRMA VEP MELBOURNE — With the dulcet tones of Dusty Springfield singing "Anyone Who Had a Heart" in the background, the Fairwear campaign launched its latest weapon in the campaign to end the exploitation of outworkers — a super hero by the