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By Craig Cormick SAM WATSON is an Aboriginal activist, writer and manager of the Brisbane Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Service. He recently talked to CRAIG CORMICK. You were recently a guest at the Sydney Writers' Festival.
Comment by Reihana Mohideen In his recently published book Socialism: What Went Wrong?, Irwin Silber, long-term activist in the US left and editorial member of Crossroads magazine, argues that there has been no objective basis for socialist
Bump me into parliament Dave Riley How do you reckon I'd go as prime minister? It's a thought, isn't it? Instead of the glint from John Howard's glasses, the light at the end of the tunnel could be me. Of course, I'd keep doing these
WA teachers reject concessions By Anthony Benbow PERTH — WA teachers have rejected a pay deal offered to them by the education Department on March 31. Teachers have been enforcing bans on unpaid out-of-hours work since the start of the
On March 31, the East Timorese resistance received news from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that the Indonesian foreign minister, Ali Alatas, had asked for a postponement of the intra-Timorese meeting scheduled to be held in Salzburg,
Kraft strike in sixth week By Alana Kerr MELBOURNE — Seventy-three members of the Electrical Trades Union and the Automotive, Food, Metals and Engineering Union have entered their sixth week of an around-the-clock picket outside Kraft's
Coogee women's pool saved By Sarah Peart SYDNEY — An anti-discrimination tribunal on March 31 dismissed as "vexatious" and "frivolous" against the Randwick and Coogee Ladies Swimming Club and the Randwick Council over McIver's Baths
Rob Roy Starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth and Eric Staltz Directed by Michael Caton-Jones Reviewed by Barry Healy Robert Roy MacGregor was a Scottish clan chief whose life, mediated through a great romantic book by
Abu Mazen poised to take up PNA post By Karen Farrell Declaration of Principles chief architect Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) will finally assume his role as head of the Palestinian Negotiations Supervisory Committee, according to an
Learning, early on By Brandon Astor Jones "How does a doctor or a health care worker teach a mother that her children must always wash their hands after playing with the family kitten when [their] tin house is not connected to water? —

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