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  1. Doctor blows whistle on health authorities

    the obstetrics training that he began late last year. Nitschke's bad year began on March 24, ... 1993. On that day, hospital administrators organised a briefing session for medical and nursing staff on ... on a two-week training course on the procedures for a patient admitted with exposure to radiation. ...

  2. Write on: Letters to the editor

    politically pure anyone could be in his situation. Diana Palmer Malvern Vic Greens Garry Mclennan (Write On ... about time we encouraged everyone on the left to catch up with reality. Similarly, the founding charter ... let's not junk solely on one so as to excuse the other. Dave Riley Northgate Qld [Abridged.] Racist ...

  3. Write on

    since the end of the war on the grounds of pursuing "MIAs". Melanie Sjoberg Christie Downs SA ... odd frog protesting by going extinct, or at least making themselves scarce.) One could go on. Is the ... created? Learned journals seriously discuss the possibility of wars occurring over scarce resources (as if ...

  4. A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor

    Keating's speech was made on the same day on which George Aditjondro, an Indonesian academic, risked his ... attacked by stone-throwing thugs, and his university has come under pressure to sack him. On March 16, ... succeeding years. During the first three years of the war, the population in the territory fell from 688,771 ...

  5. Write on: letters to the editor

    Write on: letters to the editor Tamil Tigers We refer to the article written by Ana ... Pararajasingham in your paper titled "Behind the War in Sri Lanka". It is clear that the author has ... consent, from sexual touching to rape. Both men and women are vulnerable. Sexual assault is not in any way ...

  6. Militant Labour launched on independent path

    cut loose. With revised positions on women and the national question, the new party is keen to discuss ... is Militant Labour's war cry. The opening panel included Tommy Sheridan, a powerful speaker who ... larger than Militant), its impact on British politics is negligible. Militant, with its base in ...

  7. Attack on youth services, media

    abstinence working in relation to any sexually transmitted disease, for example. The war on drugs didn't ... liking of health minister Brian Howe. This is the latest in a wave of attacks on young people's ... media and services. On February 25, the orientation handbook of the University of Technology, Sydney ...

  8. Stopping on the threshold

    resisted every democratic advance, from voting and trade union rights to women's rights, throughout ... "restraint on wages and other demands". The coercive organs of the capitalist state (army, police, ... constraints on all forms of power including popular power". Working-class rule, argues Miliband, will ...

  9. The ALP: a roadblock on the path to socialism

    the bloodbath of World War I — we need to examine the material basis for the pro-capitalist nature of ... Â鶹´«Ã½ of Australian working people — migrants, Aborigines, women, youth — nor even the majority of ... essential precondition to a shattering of the present right-wing stranglehold on the ALP and the ACTU is ...

  10. Write on

    successful. The U.S. war fighting presence on Australian soil is once again an issue and given the ... Vietnam, on March 16, 1968. In this instance of the long-drawn out massacre of the Vietnam War, over ... are not so assured of a job. The crime rate rising due to unemployment, and the list goes on. The ...

  11. Write on: Letters to the editor

    Tories, who included white racist fascist Enoch Powell. Imperialism runs on war, on preparing for war, on ... financing war, on plunder, and on multi-layered propaganda about its own motives, and the evils of its ... blow the whistle on the corruption and criminal activity within Government. Now even Blind Freddy can ...

  12. John Pilger speaks on East Timor

    killings in Balibo on October 16, 1975. Like so much of what Evans says on East Timor, however, that denial ... preceding Australian governments is a fact. On September 4, 1975 the CIA reported to President Ford that the ... Indonesians had secretly invaded East Timor. On September 17 the CIA reported: "Jakarta is now sending ...

  13. Write onSelf-help movement

    Backlash — The Undeclared War Against Women and Gloria Steinem's Revolution From Within (GLW #58), the ... conclusion of Faludi's book that we need an uncompromising and forceful mass women's movement ... that the problem is with women themselves and that therefore personal self esteem through self-help is ...

  14. Write on

    that riches and honours will fall out of the sky on us — when the only assured reality so far is a 2 or ... renew the trade embargo on Vietnam because of human rights concerns, despite Hanoi having co-operated ... In World War 2, 78,000 US troops were missing in action, in Korea 8000, in Vietnam 2,273 less 1,101 ...

  15. Write on

    Timor On Saturday, March 21, I and a companion flew to Kupang. We intended to go to East Timor for ... on the Saturday night. We left early Sunday morning and arrived in Atambua around lunchtime. The bus ... driver dropped us off at the Kodim military post where our passports were checked. We got on the Dili ...

  16. Write on

    campus. Your sympathetic attitudes on Afro-Asian causes are building up an increasing readership for GL ... war-torn Lebanon get through their initial settling-in period. The NOW Centre has special, well-qualified ... native Arabic. The NOW's welfare programs, which target youth, elderly and women have prepared ...

  17. Write on

    because at the time he nominated for election he was a government employee, though on leave without pay. ... population I=PAT seems to have been the flavour of the month in GLW #84. You had 2 letters and 2 articles on ... plenty of time on his hands and did good research he could work all this out. (He'd probably need ...

  18. Write on

    (GLW 20/1), is based on the specious argument that until a pure mathematical formula is provided, there ... crisis." He adds, "This is the book of the century on the environment." Indeed, these books are ... is based on absurd generalisations. Modern technology need not be destructive, affluent consumption ...

  19. Ethical investment: banking on the environment

    things up to the marketplace, that money should be able to run freely purely on the basis of supply and ... to receive the ultimate benefits, it is more likely to have a better effect on the society than if ... criteria? The environment is the major concern, and after the Gulf War there is an increasing concern with ...

  20. Once again on Marxism

    should the relations between left-wing movements, women's movements and ecological movements be ... Russia, Germany, Egypt and Yugoslavia. It is highly significant that instead of masochistic discussions on ... centred on the questions of "What should we do?" and "How can we move ahead?" ...

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