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Meat If you go down to the meatworks today this is what you'll find. A large tilting steel floor upon which sheep are herded then electrocuted. Perhaps you might see a large bull shot with two or three bolts and yet still desperately trying to

The Pagans of the people

Fighting Back Peter Hicks & the Born Again Pagans CD or Cassette $20/$15 Recorded & mixed at Rising Damp Studios Reviewed by Paul Boundy Peter Hicks and the Born Again Pagans launched their new CD at the Sydney Cultural Dissent evening

'We are facing a nearly impossible choice'

By Poul Funder Larsen MOSCOW — "In general the left is in an extremely difficult position, particularly as regards the coming elections, which by all accounts will be a farce ... We are facing a nearly impossible choice. Either we stay out and

Democrats seek to worsen IR bill

Comment by Frank Noakes It appeared all the more galling that the Australian Democrats' first response to the federal Labor government's industrial relations bills was released on the eve of Business Review Weekly's top 1000 survey of the most

Creating a Palestinian state

By Jenny Long and Sean Malloy SYDNEY — Ali Kazak, Palestine Liberation Organisation representative in Australia, spoke at a Democratic Socialist Party forum on October 5. "The declaration of principles we signed does not, of course, cover

Teachers to stand

By Chris Spindler ADELAIDE — The October 30 State Council meeting of the South Australian Institute of Teachers endorsed SAIT president Clare McCarty to stand as an Education Independent for the Legislative Council in the state elections.

Making global decisions

By Brian Martin It is easy to criticise present methods of global decision-making. Typically, the most powerful governments impose their wills directly or indirectly. For example, the nuclear weapons states maintain their arsenals while doing

Personal exploration of politics

Time Will Tell Shane Howard BMG Records Reviewed by Ignatius Kim For an artist of his abilities, Shane Howard is strangely unnoticed here. As special guest on Mary Black's recent Irish tour, he played with Black at the Fleadh festival in

Learning about history

Learning about history "We're not putting him up there as a role model of any sort. What Milken did in the whole junk bond period really did change the face of corporate America, and I don't think there is any more dramatic way of learning about

Governments prepare to bury mental health report

By Peter Boyle Coolibah is a day centre, run by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, for isolated older people in Melbourne's inner city. But according to the Barry Pearce, the centre's coordinator, these days Coolibah is constantly having to turn

Secret tour exposes illegal waste dumps

Secret tour exposes illegal waste dumps By Bill Mason BRISBANE — A late-night tour of illegal waste dumps here has given Queensland Greens convener Drew Hutton the information he needs to expose the racket of organised environmental crime

Back to the trenches

Back to the trenches "Our willingness to compromise has been callously rejected. We will not stand by and allow the irreplaceable old growth and wilderness forests of the south-east to be trashed by the woodchip industry. It's back to the