Analysis

  • 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

  • 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

  • Keating's privatisation push threatens jobs and environment

    Keating's privatisation push threatens jobs and environment When Prime Minister Paul Keating met with state premiers in the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on August 19 they claimed to be discussing a new national competition

  • A glimpse behind the figleaf

    A glimpse behind the figleaf A good deal of the decisions that most affect our lives are made in secretive and confidential meetings by senior corporate executives — those with the power to invest, speculate, close down factories and

  • No to US/UN invasion of Haiti

    No to US/UN invasion of Haiti The UN Security Council resolution authorising "all necessary means to facilitate the departure from Haiti of the military leadership" sets the political framework for a US-led invasion of Haiti under UN cover.

  • Gay liberation and the meaning of Stonewall

    June 1994 marked the 25th anniversary of the riots sparked by police raids on New York's Stonewall Inn. These demonstrations signalled the rise of a radical movement for lesbian and gay liberation. RODNEY CROOME of the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian

  • Rwanda: how Canberra can really help

    Rwanda: how Canberra can really help Canberra's belated decision to spend $10 million for aid to Rwanda, although welcome, is a pittance compared to the amount rich Australia could and should contribute. Putting the figure in proportion, $10

  • End support for thugs

    End support for thugs The Australian government has announced that the Indonesian Armed Forces have been invited to participate in the next big Australian army war games, Kangaroo 95. This announcement was made in Darwin, a city where many East

  • Elect all who govern

    Elect all who govern It appears that the "debate" over republic versus monarchy is going to remain with us for some time. The campaign by Keating's ALP for a more "dignified national identity" has become one of the government's most important