180

Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. New summit for hoods of state
Fight continues over agency bargaining By Phil Shannon CANBERRA — Community and Public Sector Union delegates and members in the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (HSH) in the ACT are opposing certification of the
Green Left Weekly recently received a very welcome donation from the Homeland Community in northern NSW. The community sent a cheque for $212.40, with a little note, offering the donation as a "tithe for your worthy paper". We would like to express
By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — Despite the Kennett government's recent surprise decision to cut its funding by $20,000, one of Melbourne's oldest alternative theatre companies refuses to give up. In announcing its 1995 season, Melbourne
Paul Keating em = By Denis Kevans You bignoted on Mabo I thought you were sincere, But what do I find when I peer in your mind At the turning of the year? A little mechanical masterpiece, With insects striking the gong,
Glowing in the dark They are a weird mob, the NT politicians. Every time there is a crisis at the Ranger uranium mine one of them volunteers to drink water contaminated by radionuclides and a cocktail of other industrial strength contaminants.
Rallies protest against marijuana laws By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Some 500 people rallied in King George Square for a "pot-nic" on March 18 as part of a national day of action called by HEMP (Help End Marijuana Prohibition). Speakers
Dear Santa ... "The enduring values and beliefs my parents instilled in me as a child are what sustain me today." — NSW Premier John Fahey. Bulldoze 'em! "There is nothing valuable on that peninsula ... It is substandard, inhabited by
A teachers' campaign targets minister ADELAIDE — As the SA public school system fights to protect its future, the South Australian Institute of Teachers has called upon education minister Rob Lucas to remember his pre-election promise.
ADELAIDE — Seven members of the neo-fascist National Action organisation stormed into the Adelaide Resistance Bookshop on March 14, destroying posters and threatening Resistance activists. National Action threatened that if Resistance did not
The Porcupine By Julian Barnes Picador. 138 pp., $11.95 (pb) Reviewed by Dave Riley Just when I thought I'd give up novels for the telly and stick to periodicals rather than something more literary, Julian Barnes came my way. I view him as
MIKE KARADJIS, a youth worker in Sydney's western suburbs, is the Democratic Socialist candidate in the seat of Fairfield in the NSW election. He spoke to Green Left Weekly's DAVE WRIGHT about the major parties' law and order push and its