By Lisa Macdonald
Two weeks ago, the ALP, Coalition and Australian Democrats voted themselves a windfall totalling over $15 million.
The Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1994, passed by the Senate on March 30, was a deal
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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.
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
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev has always stood out among political leaders in the former Soviet Union for his skill at manoeuvring in quickly changing situations. As a Communist Party official of Kazakh
Support for Steel-Line Doors strikers
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Some 200 people attended a Multicultural Night to Support the Steel-Line Doors Workers at the Trades and Labour Council Building on April 7. Organised by the Central American
By Pip Hinman
Australia will be well remembered for its role at the two-week climate conference in Berlin. With the so-called left winger Senator John Faulkner at the helm, the Australian delegation collaborated with a handful of rich countries
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
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
No fees campaign launched at Newcastle
By Alex Bainbridge
NEWCASTLE — Confirmation from the vice chancellor of Newcastle University, Raoul Mortley, that up-front fees are to be increased, as well as reports of the introduction of fees for
Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Issue number 4
New Course Publications
Reviewed by Salim Muktar
While the promise that the New World Order would usher in an era of peace lies in tatters, the claim by neo-liberal
Reconciling Australia: The Hard Questions — Four prominent Aborigines have their say about the woolly concept of "reconciliation" in a special four-part series. Barbara Flick, indigenous adviser to the AMA, John Ah Kit, executive director of the
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
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