Wills overturn
Last year the High Court decided to remove Phil Cleary from his parliamentary seat, because at the time he nominated for election he was a government employee, though on leave without pay.
It is outrageous that the decision
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By Peter Boyle
Following the development last spring of the deepest and widest ozone hole ever recorded over Antarctica, the governments of 93 countries agreed in November to speed up the phasing out of ozone-destroying chemicals. However,
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — The government of Carmen Lawrence was dumped on February 6, bringing to an end 10 years of Labor in Western Australia. It was a decade marked by shonky business deals with the big end of town and of corruption.
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — As early as mid-year, President Boris Yeltsin's power as ruler of Russia could come to an end. This has become a distinct likelihood with the prospect that massive voter abstention will invalidate the
MANAGUA — Hundreds of armed rebels began gathering in so-called "security zones" on January 27 and preparing to discuss with the government the terms of their surrender, the chief of the Matagalpa province police, Roberto González,
By Kevin Healy
A week when we all felt a pang as a True Blue Aussie institution, Arsnot's Biscuits, fell out of True Blue Aussie control. After years of supporting the dental, medical and ultimately the undertaking industries, what a national
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — Williamstown residents and users of the Williamstown train line are campaigning to prevent closure of the much used line in Melbourne's west. The Kennett government intends closing the line from Newport to
By Norm Dixon
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, one of Africa's most popular, courageous and politically outspoken musicians, may finally be silenced, much to the relief of Nigeria's corrupt political and military elite. Having suffered decades of
By James O'Connor
The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the geopolitical and ideological upheavals this has caused have altered the nature of class struggle throughout the world. Without the Soviet Communist Party, parties in the rest of
More cuts in mining industry
By Peter Chiltern
The mining industry in NSW has been further hit by closures and cutbacks at Broken Hill and the Illawarra. The city of Broken Hill will lose more than a third of its 1350 mineworkers with the
By Sean Malloy
"This is a unique historical period. The collapse of Stalinism has opened the way in the US for some regroupment beyond the old formations and the old currents", said Malik Miah, a member of the leading committee of the
Spock, US pastors in Havana
HAVANA - Renowned US paediatrician Doctor Benjamin Spock presented US$82,000 in medicines to the Cuban Red Cross on the morning of February 1. The shipment was donated by people in 41 US states. The Cuban Red Cross
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