By Lisa Macdonald
Taking the next step in its campaign to guarantee unimpeded access for mining corporations to all areas of Australia, federal environment minister Senator Robert Hill made it clear last week that the Coalition is prepared to allow
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Howard's Indonesia policy rebuffed
By Nick Everett
BRISBANE — John Howard faced a vocal, angry picket on September 22, on his return to Australia after meeting with Indonesian dictator Suharto. Howard was attending a Liberal Party meeting at
By Dave Wright
SYDNEY — After considerable public debate and heated lobbying from industry, unions and environment groups, the Carr Labor government has announced its interim forest and wilderness package. Carr says this package makes his
The Ever So Ordinary MP
It is as notorious as the Melbourne weather that the intricacies of social discourse and our own high aspirations toward mutual respect and understanding never seem to coincide. Indeed, our desire for a certain political
By Brian Campbell
All 25 members of the National Executive of Herri Batasuna (the party of left-wing Basque nationalism) have been threatened with jail. The Spanish authorities accuse them of being agents of ETA, which is engaged in an armed
By Jorge Andres
The spoken word can be powerful, but immeasurably more so when spoken by the powerful. When those who make rules for the rulers, like Pauline Hanson and John Howard, have "their say", they do it on our behalf and without our
CES and contracts
It is my opinion that the new conservative Government first had to get rid of the CES before it could change I.R. Presently the CES has a watchdog role over the Labour Market, ensuring that shonky employment practices are not
Prepared for Green Left Weekly by Sasha Shtargot
For 20 years community radio 3CR in Melbourne has been at the forefront of alternative, progressive media, covering the struggles of ordinary people for social justice. For the last 15 years 3CR
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — After months of stalling by the state Liberal government and significant industrial action by education workers, the dispute over wages and workload appears to have entered a new phase with the intervention of a full
By Dave Riley
The O'Tooles were the first in our street to get television. It was 1956, the Melbourne Olympics were on and our biggest treat was to be invited to their lounge room to watch the magic. Young Peter O'Toole, was forever going on about
By Paul Oboohov
One September 25 the National Delegates Committee (NDC) in the Department of Employment, Education and Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) met in teleconference to finalise their log of claims prior to a membership vote beginning
By Tuntuni Bhattacharyya and Pat Brewer
On September 26, a 90-strong meeting called by the Women's Abortion Action Campaign discussed the implications of the current High Court case involving the legality of abortion, in which the Catholic Church
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