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By Nick Fredman LISMORE — Student activists here kicked off the year with a lively protest on February 18 against tighter restrictions to Austudy eligibility and other attacks on education. A lunchtime speak-out was organised by the Student
Arnott's workers the 'innocent victims' By James Vassilopoulos Contrary to last week's claim by Arnott's Biscuits' managing director Chris Roberts that the company is the "innocent victim" in the current extortion attempt, the real innocent
By Eva Cheng The February 12 defection to South Korea of Hwang Jang-yop, a member of the central committee of the ruling North Korean Workers' Party, is being treated by the western media as evidence that the regime in Pyongyang is near collapse.
By Iggy Kim and Peter Boyle Racism is often presented as a deep-seated and "ancient" suspicion and hostility between people of different races — a "natural" if mistaken prejudice that is hard to eradicate but will eventually be banished through
DARWIN — An Aboriginal protest camp on vacant Crown land in the northern suburbs has ended tragically after the sudden death of one of the protesters. Bob Bunduwabi died on January 22 after two months of defying repeated attempts by the NT
By Dave Mizon MELBOURNE — At a mass meeting held at Williamstown Hall on February 14, more than 400 workers, members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the Electrical Trades Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers
details = The Captive Republic: A history of republicanism in Australia 1788-1996By Mark McKennaCambridge University Press, 1996334 pp., $29.95(pb), $90.00(hb) Review by Alex Bainbridge For many people, the republic debate is simply a bore — a
By Allen Myers ABC managing director Brian Johns has put himself in deep trouble with the Howard government by agreeing to the telecast of Gough Whitlam's inaugural "Whitlam Lecture" to the Trade Union Education Foundation on February 9 —
Me Generation and the death of a nation There was a time when most knew want and therefore understood, That in this land across the sea, there was a chance for good. Knowing adversity, they saw their fellows in that light And so against
Looking out: Lessons learned By Brandon Astor Jones I know a wonderful woman whose words of wisdom I want to share with you. Her name is Barbara Chapman-Woods. I regret that this column lacks space to present a greater number of her thoughts. My
By Jon Lamb A number of major oil projects in the Timor Sea have recently been approved by the Howard government. On February 14, BHP Petroleum and partners (Petroz, Santos and Inpex Sahul Ltd.) received permission to develop the Elang-Kakatua oil
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — During 1996, Russia's Ministry of Defence Industry reported in January, output in the country's defence factories fell by a further 27.1% to a mere 12.8% of its 1991 level. That's not so bad, you might say — every