With the government's control of both houses of parliament now confirmed, the Coalition is triumphantly promoting its plans for far-reaching "reform". The attacks are likely to come thick and fast over the next 12 months and we need to be ready to
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The Coalition government presents itself as the
champion of families. Its election manifesto stated:
"Strong families are the bedrock of society. A supportive
family is the greatest source of emotional stability and
social development anyone
Rohan Pearce
Opinion polls show that the US is almost evenly split on the issue of whether the Iraq war was worth fighting. You would expect, given this, that a candidate clearly opposed to the war would be getting considerable support, at least
As the US election approached, Meredith Kolodner looked at the state of the anti-war struggle in the US for Socialist Worker, the paper of the US International socialist Organization.
As the media focuses on questions of judgment, and politicians
James J. Brittain
For more than four decades, Colombia has been in the grip of a civil war between the people and the state. Through this time, the state has capitalised on laws and decrees that have enabled the formation of paramilitary forces.
Sue Bolton
The ALP is preparing a further shift to the right, at the same time as trade unions are working out how to deal with the re-elected Coalition government's impending assault on them.
As part of preparing Labor shift further to the
The Manchurian CandidateDirected by Jonathan DemmeWritten by Daniel Pine & Dean GeorgarisWith Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber.
REVIEW BY JOE ALLEN
This is not our parents' Manchurian Candidate. Unlike the 1962 Cold War classic
Peter Boyle
The ALP's post-election flight to the right continues with the new shadow cabinet's review of leader Mark Latham's pre-election promise to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq.
According to the October 29 Sydney Morning Herald, the
Alex Miller
There have been renewed calls for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq after it was announced that 850 personnel from the Scottish Black Watch regiment are to be moved from the relative security of Basra in southern Iraq to Hilla,
Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other
Scott Poynting, Greg Noble, Paul Tabar, and Jock CollinsSydney Institute of Criminology, 2004352 pages, $45, (pb)
Bin Laden in the Suburbs argues that we are witnessing the emergence of the
Norm Dixon
In recent weeks, scientists have released two separate findings that indicate the consequences of global warming due to the emission of "greenhouse gases" — primarily carbon dioxide (CO2) from the industrial burning of fossil fuels —
Through his op-ed column in the October 26 Sydney Morning Herald, Liberal Party historian and apologist for imperialism Gerard Henderson attempted to discredit the awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to Indian writer and campaigner
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