By Alex Bainbridge
Education is one of the indicators traditionally used to gauge the level of civilisation, social justice and democracy in a society. Now it appears that both the major parties are committed to deregulating and privatising
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Who really has the right to rule Russia — President Boris Yeltsin, elected by 57% of voters in June 1991? Or the Russian parliament, elected more than two years earlier in a vote that was only partly
By Jonathan Strauss
PERTH — How can one judge the significance of election results? Not by the number of seats won, if the February 6 WA elections are any guide.
In the lower house of WA's parliament, the Liberals (28 seats) and
Bougainville war crimes inquiry
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — A public inquiry into war crimes by the Papua New Guinea government against the people of Bougainville has been set for Saturday, February 20, at the Axion Room, University of
Forum calls for Hilton inquiry
By Richard Davis
SYDNEY — On February 13, 15 years after the Hilton bombing, a public forum organised by the Justice Campaign for Hilton Bomb Victims renewed calls for a joint NSW-federal government
A prisoner of business interests
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Leaked minutes of the Queen Street Mall advisory committee show how council was urged by mall traders to launch its campaign against democratic rights. The minutes are the
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
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
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
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,
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.
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
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