Gough Whitlam:
* Supported Australia's intervention in Vietnam in 1965.
* Met Suharto over dinner during his first year as Indonesia's president. During that year, up to 1 million people were massacred. Decades later, Whitlam still referred to
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Organising students and youth in the Philippines
By Jo Brown
A new socialist youth organisation called the Ligang Sosyalistang Kabataan or Socialist Youth League (LSK) was launched in the Philippines late last year. The Philippine student
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Why didn't anyone tell me that the line had been changed? I just made a complete fool of myself in front of everyone!
What are you talking about?
Haven't you heard? An independent East Timor is now OK.
It isn't, is it?
It is.
Correction
In last week's Green Left Weekly the article on the resignation of Queensland MUA organiser Jeff Langdon contained the following sentence: "Langdon claimed the branch leadership did not send copies of his resignation letter to ships
Carr caves in to forest industry
By Simon Kenny
SYDNEY — Prior to the last NSW election, Premier Bob Carr promised to "end all export woodchipping of native forests by the year 2000". Given that the level of export woodchipping in NSW has
By Kathy Newnam
ADELAIDE — As part of preparations for International Women's Day, a forum on February 6 featured a range of speakers on the theme chosen by the 1999 IWD Collective, "Women Unite For Your Rights". Melanie Sjoberg, an industrial
By Norm Dixon
United States and British warplanes are launching multiple air attacks every day against targets in northern and southern Iraq. Had US rockets not slammed into a working-class Basra neighbourhood and a village on January 25, coverage
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — In a decision handed down on January 27, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission found that Mervyn Vogt was unfairly dismissed from his job with Telstra, and ordered his re-instatement with back pay. Vogt, a
Corporate VibesWritten by David WilliamsonDirected by Robyn NevinSydney Theatre CompanyDrama Theatre, Sydney Opera House Review by Mark Stoyich
Fairy tales about modern life seem to be the trend in theatre now. In Beatrix Christian's Fred, selfish,
By Tuntuni Bhattacharyya
SYDNEY — Not long after she was elected leader of the NSW Liberal opposition, Kerry Chikarovski told the Sydney Morning Herald that she "believes in a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy safely, because New South Wales
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