What lies behind the current hysteria around law and order?
There are three groups that are always pushing law and order — property owners, police and politicians.
Firstly, if you look at the country towns of western NSW with all their
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By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Despite the Kennett government's recent surprise decision to cut its funding by $20,000, one of Melbourne's oldest alternative theatre companies refuses to give up. In announcing its 1995 season, Melbourne
Labor's criminal response
By Dave Wright
SYDNEY — In a very heavy-handed response to crime in the western suburbs, one ALP parliamentarian seems to want to outdo the Los Angeles Police Department.
In a glossy newsletter distributed
The Porcupine
By Julian Barnes
Picador. 138 pp., $11.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Dave Riley
Just when I thought I'd give up novels for the telly and stick to periodicals rather than something more literary, Julian Barnes came my way. I view him as
Paul Keating
em = By Denis Kevans
You bignoted on Mabo
I thought you were sincere,
But what do I find
when I peer in your mind
At the turning of the year?
A little mechanical masterpiece,
With insects striking the gong,
Hidden agendas
Women are still an alarmingly long way from having reproductive rights. In recent years, the anti-choice movement has attempted to manipulate debates about women's health and contraception to its own ends.
Any discussion
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
New summit for hoods of state
A teachers' campaign targets minister
ADELAIDE — As the SA public school system fights to protect its future, the South Australian Institute of Teachers has called upon education minister Rob Lucas to remember his pre-election promise.
Canadian first nation wins forest protection
By Cam Walker
The Haisla Nation of central western British Columbia have won a major victory in having a vast area of their traditional homeland permanently protected.
The Haisla are the
Tarkine campaign continues
By Carol Mitchell and Ben Courtice
HOBART — On March 11, around 200 people attended a sleep-out/vigil in support of the Tarkine Wilderness direct action blockade, which is occurring in the north-west of
ADELAIDE — Seven members of the neo-fascist National Action organisation stormed into the Adelaide Resistance Bookshop on March 14, destroying posters and threatening Resistance activists. National Action threatened that if Resistance did not
God is a woman! — Christians, Jews and Muslims have for millennia believed in a sole male god. Archaeology reveals that recent discoveries in the heart of Palestine suggest that the Canaanite goddess, Asherah, was revered as the co-almighty in
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