By Brian T. Carey
The surviving members of the New Left Party have called a special conference, on March 20-21, to consider winding it up as a left political/electoral party, and replacing what remains by some loose form of network. To a
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Tim Anderson
Wrongly convicted
Gregory Brown, convicted of killing six people in the 1989 "backpackers fire", is innocent. He was wrongly convicted in a juryless trial before Justice Peter McInerney late last year, and will be sentenced
Students arrested as Suharto accepts Try
Forty students demonstrated outside the Indonesian parliament on March 10 to protest against the nomination and election of ex-general Suharto as president.
The demonstrators, carrying placards
By Peter Boyle
and Steve Robson
The decline in the third party, and especially Democrat, votes in the federal election, compared to 1990, can be expected to renew the pressures for merger between the Democrats and Bob Brown's Australian
IRA
In response to Norman Taylor's letter (GLW Feb 24), I find it incomprehensible that someone could say National Action and the IRA are similar with their "policy of unending violence".
It is obvious that Mr. Taylor has no knowledge of
By Sean Malloy
The release of February labour force figures on March 11 showed unemployment still rising. The Australian Bureau of Statistics put the seasonally adjusted figure at 11.1%. This was a rise of .1% on the January figure, which the
By Sue Humphries
WOLLONGONG — Wollongong Resistance had no hesitation in recommending that young people vote for Greens or the Democratic Socialists in last weekend's federal election. This recommendation was announced at a
Of Mice and Men
Screenplay by Horton Foote
Based on the novel John Steinbeck
Directed by Gary Sinese
With Gary Sinese, John Malkovich, Sherilyn Fenn, Ray Walston, Joe Morton
At Greater Union Pitt St, Sydney
Reviewed by Max Lane
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Greenhouse over Sweden
By Greg Peters
STOCKHOLM — A series of dramatic shipping accidents and near misses has occurred in the Baltic region since the Shetlands disaster. It is apparent that the north European transport infrastructure
MELBOURNE — Young people lined up to "limbo" under a symbolic "poverty line" at a special street theatre organised by the youth group Resistance in Bourke Street Mall on March 10. Paul Keating and John Hewson, in full electioneering mode, kept
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