Insensitive humour
"A person reveals his [or her] character by nothing so clearly as the joke [s/]he resents." — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799).
The chosen profession of Lichtenberg was physics, but as you can see by the quote that
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BY MARY MERKENICH & NORRIAN RUNDLE
Victorian teachers have been sold out again by their union, following its decision to abandon a campaign for increased schools funding in the state budget.
The Australian Education Union had called a stopwork
BY MALIK MIAH
On June 8, the United States Civil Rights Commission issued a divided report on the electoral process in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. By a partisan vote of six to two, the eight-member commission voted along party
BY JENNIFER WANJIRU
NAIROBI — Environmentalists in Kenya have threatened court action to stop the filming of the US television show Survivor Series III, that formally begins on July 1 and runs to September 30. They accuse the filmmakers of
Watermarks
Ever taped a record or CD music track for a friend? It's illegal, but lots of people do it without a thought. After all, the record companies are hardly impoverished. Now you can do much more. Millions of people are exchanging music, in
By Linda Waldron
"I'm not interested in the mobile phone or being addressed as 'Councillor'. What is important is to give the city back to the people. It's time the council reflected the interests of residents, small business, the poor and the
BY JESS RODGERS
"Who did the killings? Who did the killings? Downer doesn't know — he hasn't even condemned them!", James Vassilopoulos, a representative of the Socialist Alliance told protesters in Canberra on June 29. The emergency protest
Protest opposes military ties
@box text intr = DARWIN — Members of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor held an action during the June 25 visit of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, opposing any federal government attempt to
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Reinforcing long-held suspicions about scams in the Howard government's Job Network, one of the largest private employment organisations in the network, Leonie Green and Associates, has been ordered to repay $70,000 it
BY SEAN HEALY
What started as a peaceful student sit-in against privatisation may yet erupt into a nationwide uprising against Prime Minister Sir Makere Morauta, after police shot dead at least three students in what some have dubbed "Papua New
Every Socialist Alliance supporter can help the Aston by-election campaign:
If you live in Victoria, you can hand out how-to-vote cards and then join us at our election night party!
To volunteer for July 14, ring (03) 9386 4815, 9639 8622, 9388
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