By S. Piyasena
A critical election is taking place in Sri Lanka on May 17. While the vote is for seven of eight provincial councils, whose five-year terms end in June-July, the election is being viewed as a referendum on the country's
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Exhaust fumes cleaner than London air?
LONDON — The following advertisement was displayed in the April 17 Guardian newspaper:
"This Saab refreshes the air other cars leave behind.
"Incredible but true.
"Proved by government
No conclusions
"No conclusions should be drawn from the fact that a ticket cannot be drawn from one machine while it's still in the testing phase." — Sydney CityRail spokesperson after a new automatic ticketing machine being demonstrated
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Russian President Boris Yeltsin has been readying another "presidential coup", to be launched immediately after the April 25 referendum. Unlike his preparations in March for the imposition of "special rule", there
Another mine to close?
By Bernie Brian
WOLLONGONG — Coal mining company Denehurst, owner of one of the oldest pits in NSW, has given a new meaning to the phrase "enterprise bargain". It has told 250 employees at the Metropolitan
By Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — Victoria's first "illegal" picket since the promulgation of the Employee Relations Act on March 1 proved interesting for two reasons. Firstly, the workers won the dispute. Secondly, the political intrigue behind
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government will soon present legislation to parliament to give police greater powers. Police will be able to take fingerprints regardless of whether the person objects.
Under current law, police
By Roger Raven
Job creation has been given nothing like the attention that it deserves. No green/democratic/socialist political force will seriously threaten the conservative parties until we can offer credible economic policies to the
PERTH — Activists from various humanitarian and political organisations paid their respects to popular Communist leader Chris Hani, and showed their support for the democratic movement in South Africa, at a memorial meeting on April 17 organised
MADELEINE BLACKWELL, the director of Matebian Nia Lian (Voices of Souls), a play by the East Timorese Cultural Group currently being performed in Melbourne's Theatreworks, believes that the story of East Timor reveals ugly truths about the nature
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