BY SHANE HOPKINSON
Tandem Thrust 2001 is the name of the joint US/Australia military exercise conducted during May in Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area, north of Rockhampton. Some 28,000 US, Australian and Canadian troops were involved and it
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Mothers' Day this year, again, was a bit of a horror. According to the commercialised tradition, it's a day when we are supposed to buy appliances, lingerie or flowers for mums who're overworked, underpaid and unrecognised.
Particularly revolting
In the Blue HouseBy Meaghan DelahuntBloomsbury, 2001$35 (hb)
REVIEW BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON
There are few historical figures on the left who provoke such controversy, inspiration and opposition as that of the Russian revolutionary leader, Leon
BY RENFREY CLARKE
Mention electricity supplies to a South Australian, and the answer is unlikely to be polite. As well as summer blackouts, there are pool prices that doubled during 2000 in the now-privatised state grid, and the prospect of huge
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — "East Timorese must ask themselves, why are we still divided? We can't go on holding other countries to blame", the new country's foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta told a public lecture at the University of New South Wales
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS & CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE Growing up in this area, I understand that working families
are doing it tough. Too many people are worried about losing their jobs
or about getting by with casual work, said Josephine
BY DICK NICHOLS
Through the first telephone hook-up of its National Liaison Committee since its founding in March, the Socialist Alliance last week decided to have its founding conference in Melbourne on the weekend of August 4-5. The conference
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Public anger is mounting at the federal government's treatment of
asylum seekers, following a May 26 raid on the Port Hedland detention centre
and the arrest of 22 refugees singled out from a May 11 riot at the
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — On May 30, an alliance of members of parliament from Golkar (the party of former Indonesian dictator Suharto), the armed forces (TNI), the muslim right-wing Central Axis parties and vice-president Megawati Sukarnoputri's
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
The South Australian Liberal government believed that it was on a winner when it privatised the state's electricity supply. However, it now looks like the move will be a major factor in the government's defeat at the next state
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