With the rupiah plunging to 16,750 to the US dollar last week and prices jumping, sometimes twice a day, the political and social consequences of the currency crisis in Indonesia are starting to be felt. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly spoke to MAX LANE,
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WOLLONGONG — As a result of a three-year campaign by Warrawong residents, the NSW state government has made funds available to reopen the Warrawong Community Centre (WCC) and employ full-time staff. The centre will celebrate its reopening by
The pope knows
There was this pope, see — pope someone or other — an old codger who liked sticking his nose in everyone else's business.
A busybody bishop?
No, no. He was a pope, which is higher than a bishop. I mean, popes are like
By Wendy Patterson
Chiapas once again burst on to the front pages of the world's newspapers with news of a massacre in the small town of Acteal on December 22. Local members of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) gunned down 45
Reign of terror in Ogoniland
By Norm Dixon
The Nigerian military dictatorship has dramatically escalated its brutality in Ogoniland in the west African country's Niger River delta. The region remains under military occupation. The crackdown
Making humble work come to life
Humble Work and Mad Wanderings: Street Life in the Machine AgeBy Ken AppolloNevada City, California: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1997. 108 pp, 61 duotone images$34.95 plus $3.50 shipping from 228 Commercial Street,
Stoking the Flame
The Light on the Hillmay flicker and dim,at times — the bad times,it may fail to illuminatethe road ahead.
It is then that we mustcup our hands around it,protect and nurture it,feed its sacred flame,revive its scarlet heart.
Byron: The Flawed AngelBy Phyllis GrosskurthSceptre, 1997510 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Lord Byron provoked strong passions. Attacked in his day by Tory journals as the "poet of seduction, adultery and incest: the contemner of
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Queensland branch of the Transport Workers Union is challenging a court threat to two union delegates who have been charged under the federal Workplace Relations Act of alleged breaches of "freedom of association".
By Norm Dixon
Zimbabwe's government has been painted into a corner by the growing dissatisfaction of the country's urban poor and the working class on the one hand, and the demands of big business and western financial institutions on the other.
Comment by Lisa Macdonald
The full picture of the attempted genocide of Australia's indigenous people still remains largely unacknowledged in official Australian history. This is because of (rather than despite) the fact that the forcible removal
Arguments for socialism: Pigs at the trough
By Jonathan Strauss
A recent middle of the night attempt by NSW parliamentarians from all parties to increase their own superannuation entitlements by an average of 30% sparked a week of front-page
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