'Labor has lost its way'
PERTH — Kath Mallott, a former member of the ALP state executive, is an independent candidate for the seat of Perth in the West Australian state elections. Calling on voters to "put Perth before a party", she says
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Qld Nationals slammed for racism
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Recent remarks of Queensland National Party leaders have been denounced as "openly racist" by Coral Wynter, Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Griffith in the coming
By Laszlo Andor
BUDAPEST — A new economics textbook by the chief editor of the main economics journal of Hungary says that the main difference between transformation and transition is, that the first is a slow and gradual process, while the
PSU rank and file contest election
By Barry Healy
SYDNEY — A David and Goliath contest is opening up within the Public Sector Union in an election for the position of assistant national secretary. Phil Sandford, a poorly funded
Socialist preferences to Greens in WA
PERTH — The large number of third party and independent candidates in the WA elections has given an increased importance to the question of preferences.
The Democratic Socialists, who are running in
Left cinema from Chile via Paris
The Cinema of Raul Ruiz
Melbourne State Film Theatre
February 4-13
Reviewed by Choly Reyes
Raul Ruiz was forced to leave Chile amid the slaughter that followed the right-wing coup of 1973 against the
By Vivienne Porzsolt
Jonathan Swift once responded to some 18th century economists with a sardonic suggestion that children of the Irish poor might be farmed as food for the rich. Not much has changed, it seems, if the work of a prominent New
By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — Victorian workers are being advised by some of their union officials to trust federal Labor to save them from the Kennett government's unprecedented attack on workers' rights. The ACTU has warned the Victorian Trades
Invasion Day in Brisbane
By Angelique Gellert
BRISBANE — More than 1000 members of the Brisbane Murri community and supporters observed Invasion Day here on January 26.
Wreaths were laid at the historical "Windmill" building, site
Pickets were held last week, often outside Garuda Airlines offices, in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney to protest against the arrest of farmers and student activists in East Java, Indonesia. The 50 arrested were held for four days
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