Last week many were outraged when government funds, via the Australian Council of the Arts, were used to finance the reviewers writing for the newspaper lift-out, the Australian's Review of Books.
Among those criticising the move were smaller
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Sandinistas gain in Nicaraguan poll
The latest poll of Nicaraguan voter intentions by the Costa Rican polling firm CID-Gallup shows former president Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) gaining on the right-wing former
By Peter Montague
A two-year study of dioxin in the US Great Lakes has concluded that 86% of dioxin sources could be eliminated without economic sacrifice, and possibly with economic gains. The study was conducted by a team of researchers at
By Paul Oboohov
CANBERRA — A series of meetings of Community and Public Sector Union members in the national office of the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs last week discussed the federal government's attack on the
By Pip Hinman
The Coalition government is attempting to squeeze maximum political mileage from the adoption of a resolution it submitted to the UN General Assembly on September 11. The resolution called for the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban
Tax management threatens staff
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — Management in the Australian Taxation Office is trying to intimidate staff into breaking bans imposed in response to a plan called "ATO Business 2000", which involves job cuts, massive
Stop press
The Australian Bureau of Statistics last week released a study which showed that rich people were more likely to have a personal computer at home than poor people. The story made the front page of the Financial Review.
No beating
Public housing coalition formed
By Sue Brook and Liam Mitchell
MELBOURNE — One thousand people joined a demonstration here on September 11 against the Howard government's plan to decimate public housing. The demonstration was organised by a
By Nick Soudakoff
CANBERRA — At the centre of a heated debate here in the campaign against the Liberals' attacks on education has been the question of whether or not students should occupy the ANU chancellery building. Members of the
By Norm Dixon
The hypocrisy of the US government's claim that its cruise missile barrage on Iraq was to protect the rights of the Kurdish people in the US-proclaimed "safe haven" in northern Iraq is more obvious than ever following Washington's
Body of EvidenceThe One Extra CompanySt George's Hall, 354 King St, NewtownUntil September 29Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald If you, like me, are into good crime fiction, then try to get along to Body of Evidence.
Celebrating 20 years of performance
Out of My Mind: From Flower Power to the Third Millennium: the Seventies, the Eighties and the NinetiesBy Richard NevillePenguin, 1996. 216 pp., $16.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Take one ageing hippie from the '60s, add three decades of
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