Call for lesbian and gay men to fight Howard's attacks
By Samantha Lazzaro and Nick Everett
BRISBANE — Four hundred people rallied here on June 29 as part of the annual Pride Festival. The theme of this year's rally and festival was "One
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By Mairi Petersen
SHELLHARBOUR — Since 1983, the right-wing ALP-controlled Shellharbour Council has been determined to build a marina at Shellharbour Beach, about 20 km south of Wollongong. Despite the conflict of such a scheme with stated ALP
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In the presidential poll on June 16, Boris Yeltsin gained about 35% of the vote compared with 32 % for his main rival, Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) leader Gennady Zyuganov. Then, within two days,
The Life of GalileoBy Bertolt BrechtIn a new translation by David HareDirected by Richard WherrettWith John Howard as GalileoSydney Theatre CompanyOpera House, Sydney until July 20Reviewed by Allen Myers This new production of Brecht's Galileo has
By Maree Roberts
CANBERRA — At the June 26 CPSU ACT branch conference, delegates voted for the branch leadership to organise a mass meeting as soon as possible to put a motion to the members for strike action against the cuts. It has become
Ready or Not: Stories of Young Adult SexualityEdited by Mark McLeodRandom House, 1996308pp., $14.95Reviewed by Jen Crothers Being a young adult is never easy. There are the inevitable conflicts with "old adults" about school, work, drugs and
KATY TYRRELL, a member of British Militant Labour and leader in UNISON, the biggest trade union in Europe, visited Australia in May. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's LISA MACDONALD interviewed her in Sydney. Question: What will the election of a Blair-led Labour
The recent attacks on higher education, including the threat to increase HECS and introduce more up-front fees, have provoked huge mobilisations by students and the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union around the country. Â鶹´«Ã½
By Pip Hinman and Jennifer Thompson
The National Commission of Audit's report, released on June 21, provides the framework for the Coalition government's budget cuts. Just as most of the Liberal state governments commissioned an audit soon after
By Doug Lorimer
The Port Arthur massacre and the decision by the May 10 meeting of state police ministers to endorse Prime Minister John Howard's proposals to ban the possession by civilians of automatic and semi-automatic firearms and establish a
Regular readers of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly will have noticed one or two photos in every issue taken by Ken Bansgrove. Ken is one of the many supporters of Â鶹´«Ã½.
A keen photographer, Ken attends many of the progressive events and demonstrations in
By Alana Kerr
The proposals in the National Commission of Audit that Commonwealth funding of higher education be replaced by a system of "scholarships", student fees and loans sounds very familiar to those who campaigned against the Coalition's
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