Please help me'
As promised, from time to time in this space, I am sharing what a day in the life of a man on Georgia's death row is like. I spent the day writing the letter below; it speaks for itself. Be advised that, on June 5, 2000, Mr
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With the introduction of the GST on July 1, we will be forced to increase the price of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. This will be the first price increase for GLW since August 1995.
Through the GST, the government will take one 11th of GLW's sales income. As
BY PETER BOYLE
Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper has been running a series
of articles on the impact of economic deregulation in Australia. Entitled
“Advance Australia where”, it analyses the results of studies commissioned
from the
BY DANIEL JARDINE & ALEX BAINBRIDGE
"Australians and New Zealanders rarely have any valid basis for questioning the safety of foods on the supermarket shelves for human consumption", Senator Grant Tambling claimed when he launched the
BY BECKY ELLIS
TORONTO — Twelve hundred people demanded entry to the Ontario parliament building here on June 15, saying they should be allowed to address the provincial legislature about poverty and homelessness in the city. The protesters were
World Development Report author quits
BY SEAN HEALY
The World Bank has been embarrassed by the June 13 resignation of Ravi Kanbur, the chief author of its flagship World Development Report 2000, after Kanbur claimed unacceptable pressure had been
Bloated
"Twenty per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia are the result of flatulence from cows and sheep [therefore] ... restrictions would have a dramatic impact on the farm sector." — National Party senior federal vice-president David
A mild-mannered proposal
Running on Empty: 'Modernising' the British and Australian labour partiesBy Andrew ScottPluto Press, 2000330pp., $29.95(pb) Review by Sue Boland
In the 1980s, Britain's Labour Party (LP) officials were forever scurrying
Cuban women's tour
July 22-30
Berta Acosta Sequi and Nancy Iglesias from the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) will be visiting Australia on July 22-30. This is a special opportunity to share experiences and learn from revolutionary women.
If you
BY MICHAEL STRUTT
SYDNEY — As this city shivers through the long nights of its Olympics year, New South Wales parliamentarians have been working overtime to pass into law sweeping new police powers to collect and examine our DNA, laws which will
International news briefs
Wits University occupied
JOHANNESBURG — Members of the South African Students Congress, the Postgraduate Students Association and the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union on June 20 occupied of the
Â鶹´«Ã½ is taking a break
Many of the activists involved in producing Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly will be in Melbourne attending the Resistance national conference on June 29-July 2 (see article on page ?). We are therefore postponing the next issue of
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