Red and green: too late to get together?
In the face of a critical need for an ecologically sustainable and socially egalitarian society, too often many greens and much of the socialist left seem at loggerheads with each other, regularly drawing
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By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — On April 3, 400 public servants met to endorse an in-principle agreement reached with the ACT government by the Community and Public Sector Union, and to end their industrial action. The agreement consists of a 10.1% pay
By Dorothy Tumney
There has been a barrage of anti-environment movement propaganda in the establishment media over the last 12 months. John O'Neill's article "Environmentalists and the Temple of Doom", published in the January 20 Sydney Morning
Child abuse
A royal commission into the NSW police has been investigating child sex abuse since the beginning of March. This has led to the media reporting on atrocities that have occurred over the last 10 to 20 years.
A former state ward
By Geoff Francis
SYDNEY — On April 11, Sydney airport's east-west runway was reopened. According to Prime Minister John Howard, this fulfilled his pre-election promise to share around the burden of aircraft noise. This is far from true. Under the
Noroc!Presented by Death Defying TheatrePlayhouse Theatre, University of Western SydneyApril 23, 8pm.University of Newcastle Drama TheatreApril 19, 8pm.Bookings phone (02) 601 8011.Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald "Noroc" is an all-purpose Romanian word
SimpaticoBy Sam ShepardDirected by David BertholdSydney Theatre Company, Wharf 2Until May 4Reviewed by Brendan Doyle From his screenplays for Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970) through to Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas and the stage play True West, Sam
Philippine unions prepare for challenges
MANILA — The Philippine labour movement, one of the most militant in Asia, faces a government zealously pursuing a policy of economic deregulation dictated by GATT and the structural adjustment programs of
By Lou Gugenberger
The Hilmer Report and the subsequent "competition policy reforms" are now law in both the Commonwealth and the states. They will have a greater effect on the lives of all Australians, it is suggested, than the Harvester judgment
Lost opportunities
John Baker's tale ("When Opportunities Went Begging", GLW #221) of the squandering of so many left regroupment openings during the 1980s and early nineties begs a reply by those who do not share his analysis. I am not one of
By Duncan Harford
The attempt by the National Party to build a "new vision" for itself began floundering barely a month after NP leader F.W. de Klerk launched the new NP in Pretoria on February 2. De Klerk launched the "new" party by opening a new
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE Premier Rob Borbidge on April 13 threatened to call a state election over Aboriginal opposition to the huge Century Zinc mine project in the far north of the state. After a confrontation with Carpentaria Land Council
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