By Dick Nichols
The Australian voter who is heartily fed up with Labor and knows that Hewson and Co will be worse has another problem — which of the "third parties" should be trusted with his or her vote on March 13?
The third party
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The federal election on March 13 is not going to decide very much. The direction of government policy in Australia will be very much the same regardless of whether Liberals or Labor are the next government.
That direction is the one that has
Walk-off at submarine site
By Chris Spindler
Adelaide — Some 200 Automotive, Metal and Engineering Union members at the Osborne submarine construction site struck on February 11 after the Australian Submarine Corporation classified
Free Kuwait?
Connections: Free Kuwait
SBS Television
Screens Friday, February 26, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. in Adelaide)
This hard-hitting documentary made by Britain's Channel Four looks at how non-Kuwaitis are suffering persecution,
Dirty
Dirty
Sonic Youth
Geffen Records
Available on CD and cassette
Reviewed by Steve Bavaro
Dirty, the eighth album from the US thrash/grunge quartet Sonic Youth, maintains the group's focus on important social issues. On their
Young activists call day of action
By Sean Malloy
The youth activist organisation, Resistance, is planning a national day of action on March 8 to highlight the Labor and Liberal attacks on young people's rights and living standards.
Discriminating
"I think all of them." — Yossef Harish, Israeli cabinet legal adviser, when asked before the Israeli Supreme Court how many Palestinian residents of the occupied territories are terrorists.
Under control
"The
By Gerry Harant
There is far more wrong with Paul Ehrlich's formula I=PA (or I=PAT in its extended form) than GLW correspondence and articles have so far suggested. Both the form and the contents of Ehrlich's statement are ideologically
By Will Firth
BERLIN — In the south-east German region of Lusatia (Lausitz) lives a small ethnic group — the Sorbs. Also called Lusatians or Wends, the Sorbs are of Slavic descent and speak a language closely related to Czech and Polish.
By our correspondent
PHNOM PENH — The series of limited military offensives by the government at the end of January has boosted morale after months in which the Khmer Rouge had manipulated the cease-fire to make military gains.
The
By Tracy Sorensen
SYDNEY — An empty shop in Cabramatta has become a hive of artistic activity. With the help of artists from either side of the US-Mexican border (the "Border Art Workshop" — BAW), young people are being taught a range of
Fred Hollows
Fred Hollows' death last week was felt by everyone who knew of his remarkable efforts and achievements in improving the health of Third World peoples in Africa, Asia and the Australian outback.
Official society did its best
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