By Naazreen Angullia
PERTH — Thirty Curtin University students attended a Resistance public meeting on the theme "Life under the Liberals" on March 28. The meeting was called in support of a National Day of Action against voluntary student
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Mick Young
Stories about Mick Young must be legion. Once a delegation fighting to save Port Adelaide Adult Matric (Saint Ethelton Behind the Wire to its inmates) from being chopped by the Bannon and Hawke governments was invited to put its spiel
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has announced plans to close all but two of its regional offices. Regional offices are smaller offices located mainly in rural areas. Staff in these offices have been given the choice of
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Back in 1990 and 1991, the suggestion would have seemed absurd. Five years into the future, politicians wanting to rise to high office would no longer be proclaiming themselves "democrats" and pronouncing anathemas on
Howard uses 'the family' to attack women's rights
By Pip Hinman
During the federal election campaign, John Howard declared that helping the family was one of the Coalition's key tasks. He said that the family was society's "key welfare unit".
By Joshua Wilson and Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — As part of its campaign for freedom in East Timor and an end to the Indonesian occupation, the socialist youth organisation Resistance held a speak-out in Gawler Place on April 12. Passers-by stopped to
Ay, there's the point!
"The Commonwealth Ombudsman, Ms Philippa Smith, is highly critical of the Government's decision to slash up to 30 per cent from her budget, saying it will compromise her capacity to scrutinise government agencies." —
The good fight of Elvis and Marilyn in cyberspace
A short story by Craig Cormick
She altered my life. And when she found me, I was sitting alone in my room in my underpants, with a large file before me, hacking at my profile. It's true. It's all
Taxi DriverDirected by Martin ScorseseFeaturing Robert de Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel and Cybill ShepherdDendy Cinema, Brisbane, from April 18Reviewed by Giovanna Castellani This year is the 20th anniversary of one of Martin Scorsese's greatest
By Tom Flanagan
Four major environment organisations have called for an inquiry into uranium mining in Kakadu National Park. The Australian Conservation, the Wilderness Society, Friends of the Earth and the Environment Centre of the Northern
Chairman Mao — the Last EmperorDirected and produced by Jeremy BennettABC TV, Wednesday, May 1, 8.30pm (8 in SA)Reviewed by Eva Cheng Jeremy Bennett believes that a monstrous tyrant controlled China single-handedly for 27 years following the 1949
VIENNA — Cancer rates are up to 200 times higher than average in areas contaminated by radiation from the 1986 explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Ukraine, according to a Greenpeace report titled Chernobyl: 10 years after, the
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