REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Hidden WordsworthBy Kenneth R. Johnston
Pimlico, 2000690 pp, $35.15 (pb)
"I am of that odious class of men called democrats". Could the person who uttered this statement and who supported the Great French Revolution
438
BY SUE BOLAND
Just before Christmas, most newspaper columnists were writing off Labor's chances in the next federal election. It had no alternative policies, it was crippled by electoral rorting allegations and it had not a hope. Now, after
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
Public servants are prime targets for the federal government. In the last decade 110,000 public sector jobs have been lost through cuts to funding, restructuring and the outsourcing and privatisation of government services
BY PIP HINMAN& SIBYLLE KACZOREK
SYDNEY — An effigy of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, complete with "letters" from oil companies Petroz and Santos protruding from its suit pockets, drew curious students to an action on Sydney
Colombia film launched
SYDNEY — Around 70 people packed the Chippendale Resistance Centre for the premiere of the documentary Colombia — Peace at What Price? here on February 22. The film was presented by the Committee in Solidarity with
Adelaide:
M1 action. Notice to be served on all businesses in Adelaide Stock Exchange. Thurs March 1, noon. Meet at trading board, Santos bldg, Currie St. Ph 8231 6982.
M1 Adelaide meeting. Every Thurs, 6.30pm. Canon Poole Rm, 5th flr, Adelaide
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — A detachment of 4200 riot cops stormed Daewoo Motors' Bu-pyung plant on February 20, ending an occupation by about 500 striking workers and their families.
The Bu-pyong workers began their strike on February 16, in
By Roque Antonio Grillo
On December 29, Argentinian president Fernando de la Rua signed a decree reducing the sentences the "La Tablada" political prisoners after a 116-day hunger strike. In commuting the sentences of most prisoners, the government
BY EVA CHENG
There has been such a big wave of domestic and cross-border corporate mergers and takeovers in the last few years that some commentators have started comparing their importance with the merger wave that took place in the US around the
By Stephen Marks
In shanty towns outside Buenos Aires, the French-Argentine water company Aguas Argentinas has "encouraged" communities to voluntarily dig ditches and lay pipes to connect their homes to the water mains. Privatised water companies
BY SEAN HEALY
Australia's aid contribution to poor countries is among the most miserly of any industrialised nation, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The OECD report, released on February
Beverley uranium mine opened
BY JIM GREEN
The uranium mine at Beverley in northern South Australia was formally
opened on February 21. It is Australia's first new uranium mine since Western
Mining Corporation's Olympic Dam opened 12
- Page 1
- Next page