By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "The right to vote should be extended to 16 and 17 year-olds", Zanny Begg, the Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane in the March 2 federal election, said in response to the launch of Paul Keating's youth
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By Pip Hinman SYDNEY — As the horse trading for preferences in the March 2 election starts up, conservationists have called for green and progressive parties and independents to swap preferences to ensure that neither of the major parties gains an
In an article to be published in the February 26 issue of the US left/liberal weekly The Nation, investigative reporter Allan Nairn charges that the US Central Intelligence Agency has placed agents inside the newly created Haitian National Police.
By Alison Thorne MELBOURNE — A memorial meeting celebrating the life of Gloria Martin, author, civil rights activist and women's movement leader, will be held on February 25. Martin died of cancer in Seattle, USA, on November 22. A working mother
By Chris Spindler SYDNEY — "A call to suppress Tamil political and cultural organisations in Australia is totally unacceptable", said the Democratic Socialist candidate for Lowe, Max Lane, on February 11. Lane was commenting on the call by the Sri
By Chris Spindler SYDNEY — After almost 12 months in office, the Carr government in NSW seems to be costing the Labor Party. Labor's electoral popularity has plummeted. A recent Herald-AGB poll found that the Carr government's performance made 31%
Kissing Angels on the Eve of RevolutionBy Robin DavidsonBoris Books, PO Box 1388, Woden ACT 2606$9.95 Reviewed by Craig Cormick Robin Davidson wears many masks. He has been a performer, writer, clown, activist and poet. The poems collected in this
By Allen Myers Surfing the internet recently, I was amazed — even surprised — when my computer appeared to fall into a time warp and began spewing out news reports from the future. Following is a selection from those reports. February 6, 1996:*
Under staffing Why long waits at the Commonwealth Bank for service? Went in there the other day and had to stand in a queue just on 16 minutes for service. On complaining to teller and calling for manager, was told they were short staffed that
By Norm Dixon The Shell oil company has been forced to admit that it imported weapons to help Nigerian police "protect" its oil installations in Ogoniland after the Nigerian press revealed the company had called for tenders from arms suppliers. The
By Lisa Macdonald There are around 70 Green parties in the world, almost all having grown out of the environment and anti-nuclear movements that developed in the advanced capitalist countries from the end of the 1960s. Throughout the '70s, these
No carrots "It's not a carrot; it's a great big lump of money." — PM Paul Keating, asked whether a promise of $44 million for a new ferry between Tasmania and the mainland was a vote-buying carrot. Small expectations "I couldn't put myself in the
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