Coalition feigns anti-nuclear stand
By Pip Hinman
In an apparent about-face, the federal Coalition government has welcomed the report from the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. According to Alexander Downer, the report
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By Lisa Macdonald
Just three years after decisively rejecting Liberal leader John Hewson's Fightback! strategy at the polls, the Australian people are having it foisted on them again, this time by a smarter John Howard, who concealed it beneath a
What's left in the USA? — In the belly of the beast, the left and progressive movement is alive and well on the Web. Here are just a few sites worth investigating: Z-Net (http://www.lbbs.org/), billed as "home of the US Left". Among its offerings
Tax workers suspend bans
By Chris Slee
Community and Public Sector Union members employed by the Australian Taxation Office have voted in favour of the tax division executive's proposal to suspend the bans campaign and to resume it on September
By Max Lane
The dictatorship of President Suharto has occupied East Timor for twenty years and has been responsible for the death of at least 200,000 people. In December 1995, in defiance of the military-backed dictatorship, almost 50 students
Rebuilding an independent union movement
In recent months, construction workers around Australia have waged a militant campaign against the federal government's proposal to tax travel allowances. The campaign in Victoria has been especially
By Jennifer Thompson
According to the August 9 Palestine Report, at least nine Palestinians have been killed by Palestinian Authority police officers since their arrival in the Gaza Strip and West Bank over two years ago. In late July, two West
Save the ABC
MELBOURNE — Six thousand people rallied on August 12 against the Howard government's slashing of ABC funding, jobs and programs. The rally, organised by the Friends of the ABC, took place at the Melbourne Town Hall and spilled out
Â鶹´«Ã½ received a wonderful boost to the building maintenance fund last week. A $5000 donation pushed the amount collected so far up to $31,000 — that's just $11,000 short of the amount we've been quoted to do the emergency repairs on the
The most commonly used measure for human well-being is GNP. Apart from the fact that this is distributed unequally within countries, the Human Development Report 1996 notes the following limitations to GNP as a measure, which serve to obscure a real
Solidarity
Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) has issued an emergency petition calling on the Suharto government to release all political prisoners and end suppression of freedom of assembly and organisation. More than 100
By Brian Kelly
It is twilight. I am sitting in an outdoor restaurant in Becora, Dili, with several East Timorese youths, listening to local songs played by one of the teenage boys. The neighbouring children sit cross-legged in the grass around us,
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