Analysis

  • Time for a real alternative

    Time for a real alternative "Australians are sick to death of being conned by politicians", opposition leader Alexander Downer told the faithful at the September 5 launch of The Things That Matter. He's right. And the Liberals' broad

  • Looking out: Learning & teaching

    Looking out: Learning & teachingThe Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center (GDCC) is a prison situated about 50 miles south of Atlanta, the city and regional site of the 1996 Olympic Games. More than 1700 men

  • Write on

    Barristers' 'self-regulation' On 31 August the NSW Bar Council admitted in the Supreme Court that it acted illegally in dismissing complaints against a Senior Crown Prosecutor, Mark Tedeschi. These complaints will now be reviewed by Legal

  • Bosnia: give peace a chance

    Editorial: Bosnia: give peace a chance For over two years, the war in Bosnia has dragged on, killing an estimated 200,000 people, the majority of them the victims of Bosnian Serb aggression. In this time the besieged Bosnian government has had

  • Young people in crisis

    Young people in crisisThe federal government's May 4 white paper emphasises the need for a skilled work force. This means, practically, a focus on increased school retention rates, retraining of long-term unemployed and

  • What the privatisation debate is about

    Interest in the ALP's Hobart annual conference September 26-29 will centre largely on the privatisation debate — the selling off of publicly owned assets to big business. But many people are left wondering what the debate is about.

  • Life of Riley: When R.J. Hawke did Woodstock

    When R.J. Hawke did WoodstockThere he was on stage, gigging away after Jimmy Hendrix. What a festival! Three days, man. When Bobby Hawke fronts the band I tell you, you are in for some classic riffs. Mister Seventy-Four Per

  • How to build the student movement

    How should the student left respond to the escalation of attacks on university student rights and education? Sydney University Resistance activist MARINA CARMAN argues that the focus must be mobilising and organising an increasing number of students

  • Uranium debate puts profits before safety

    Delegates to the ALP national conference later this month are being lobbied intensely on uranium mining policy by both pro- and anti-mining forces. The fact that the conference decision could well end Labor's existing three mines

  • Students fight up-front fees

    CANBERRA — For the last four weeks, students at the Australian National University (ANU) have been organising a campaign against what appears to be a "litmus test" for the introduction of up-front fees in universities

  • The Port River: Adelaide's largest sewer?

    Question: Where can the highest concentration of red algae in the world be found? Answer: the Port Adelaide River. This algae is a natural part of the ecosystem of the river. However, pollution levels have caused it to

  • Liquidating public property

    Liquidating public property After a valuation of Australian National Lines found that the government-owned company could not be privatised, minister for transport Laurie Brereton is looking at ANL's liquidation. The study by merchant bank