In 1989-1990, as the ALP-ACTU Accord limped towards collapse, a new slogan emerged from the Labor Party: the clever country. The key to Australia's economic future was said to lie in industries that relied on brainpower and precision technology
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Blue Mountains mayor resigns By Denis Kevans WENTWORTH FALLS — Mayor Peter O'Toole has resigned from the Blue Mountains City Council after the council failed to back his actions in regard to a controversial development. O'Toole had
By Way of Deception: An Insider's Devastating Expose of the MOSSAD, by Claire Hoy and Victor Ostrovsky. Arrow Books Ltd, London. 1991. $12.95 (pb). Reviewed by Mark Delmege.
Urban Ecology Australia By David Munn John Ruskin described architecture as the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, for whatsoever uses, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and
Logging industry propaganda By Yvonne Francis National Australian Forests Industries has a budget for promotion of $4 million derived from a levy on members for each cubic metre of wood produced. With those promotion funds — and I suspect
Selling Grandma NSW Premier Nick Greiner's "privatisation is for everyone" campaign has met an irreverent response from the Death Defying Theatre. In association with the Public Service Association, the group has put together "Selling
By Ray Fulcher and Jason Cheng MELBOURNE — The Victorian Trades Hall Council's February 17-21 Jobs and Justice campaign flopped badly. A series of suburban meetings on unemployment attracted miserable crowds of between 15 and 40, and a
Jobs and justice There was some discussion on the Melbourne left about the Victorian Trades Hall's recent Jobs for Justice campaign. Some argued that there was no alternative but to support what was always going to be a token effort because
ARTHUR MURRAY is the chairperson of the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee. His son Eddie was killed in Wee Waa police lockup on June 12, 1981. Murray is on bail awaiting their appeal on February 26 against convictions for "riotous
By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Controversial papers being circulated for community discussion by the Victorian ALP Budget Coordinating Committee argue convincingly that the money can be raised to pay for urgently needed social and environmental
Orwell: the authorised biography By Michael Shelden Heinemann, 1991. $45. Reviewed by Craig Brittain Over the years I've read a number of biographies that seemed just about perfect: Dotson Rader's beautiful portrait of Tennessee Williams,
Action updates ADELAIDE — Around 20 people attended the launch of Student Underground at the Resistance Bookshop on February 15. Student Underground is a new radical newsletter compiled by high school students. It takes up issues such as
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