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Big business pays for its parties but who pays for a socialist campaign?
Labor and Liberal can afford expensive advertisements in the mass media mainly because they are given millions of dollars by big business. Last year the Libs
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By Jill Hickson
On August 29-30, the council of the Asia-Pacific Coalition for East Timor (APCET) met in Jakarta to discuss the post-Suharto situation for Indonesia and East Timor, and the future activities of APCET. APCET is a coalition of
BRISBANE — The prospect of Queensland becoming the first Australian state using citizen initiated referenda (CIR) is sending tremors through the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations, according to the August 20 issue of Brother Sister.
Xanana: 'A solution for East Timor'
The following is abridged from a paper written by XANANA GUSMAO and presented by Virgilio Guterres da Silva to the "Indonesia after Suharto" conference, organised by the New Zealand Asia Institute of the
By Will Offley
CANADA — Abortion providers in Canada and Québec are facing a new threat. A systematic and well-organised campaign now under way aims to identify and expose abortion providers, increasing the risk of terrorist attacks
Women, work and Howard's agenda
Melanie Sjoberg
Each time we turn on the TV we are confronted with images reminding us that life as a woman is extremely complex. But dominant amongst these images is that of the tireless mother and homemaker —
Burma democracy activists rally
By Shosheena Stoneand Nikki Ulasowski
CANBERRA — Last week, the Burmese National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, announced the formation of a provisional government in Rangoon. Since
By Norm Dixon
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's claim that his regime's military expedition into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is motivated by a selfless need to turn back "foreign aggressors" has not been enthusiastically accepted at
Things you should never ever swallow
Synopsis, being a summary of what has gone before, for the benefit of new readers: AUSTRALIA, a dry brown land mass 10 degrees south of the equator, is having an election.
Purpose of election: To chose by
Anti-choice terrorism
CANADA — Since February 1998, there has been a campaign of intimidation against abortion providers in British Columbia (BC). Local health care workers have received letters asking them to identify physicians who provide
IN A REPORT released in Geneva on September 9, the Center for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, a component of the International Commission of Jurists, called for the prosecution of armed forces, police and local militia personnel who, it says,
On September 11, the National Security Archive, a Washington-based non-profit research group, posted declassified US government documents on its web site which detail US attempts from 1970 to 1973 to prevent the Socialist Party's Salvador Allende
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