Since the federal election, business groups have lost no time in re-raising their arguments for a goods and services tax (GST). Having had to let it go after John Hewson's spectacularly unsuccessful bid to popularise the GST in the 1993 election,
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By Pip Hinman
Not since Mabo has there been such a campaign against native title. Recently, the West Australian devoted four pages to a supposed native title claim on an elderly couple's home in Boulder. According to Jesuit priest and lawyer
By John Campbell
MELBOURNE — The Victorian state council of the Liberal Party voted overwhelmingly on May 12 against decriminalising marijuana. While the vote is not binding on Liberal MPs, statements by leading parliamentarians, including
By Tim Gooden
CANBERRA — ACT government workers are facing a concerted effort by the Carnell government to divide the work force through agency agreements. This will preparing the way for the sell-off of profitable sections to big business. This
If this is your first home-delivered copy of Green Left Weekly, then you are one of the many progressive Green Left readers who have decided to subscribe to the best alternative newspaper in Australia. Our May-June subscription campaign has already
James Vassilopolous
The public sector — not guilty!
If you're a public servant, a lot of important people, like John Howard, Ray Martin, John Laws, are trying to make you feel very guilty:
guilty about a $6-$8 billion federal government
Anti-uranium mining activists around the country held protest actions last week to condemn the Howard government's decision to allow the opening of new uranium mines. From Sydney, Roberto Jorquera reports that more than 1000 people joined a noisy
By Lisa Macdonald
Nine years after its formation, the Victorian-based Rainbow Alliance has launched a discussion which will determine a new set of aims, a new structure and name, and possibly even its future existence. Over recent years, many
A Compilation of Human Rights Abuses Against the People of Bougainville, 1989-1996, Volume 2Compiled by Marilyn Taleo HaviniPublished by the Bougainville Interim Government, Sydney, 1996Available from PO Box 134, Erskineville NSW 2043 (fax/phone 02
SYDNEY — The largest ever public education conference on East Timor will be held here June 21-24, sponsored by the University of Sydney (School of Asian Studies), University of New South Wales (Centre for Human Rights) and University of Technology,
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