By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The state Liberal government is undertaking an audit of the public sector which promises more cutbacks in jobs and community services. Rumours abound that another 1000 staff are to be cut from the State Bank in
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — If you talk to a young person serving in one of the commercial kiosks that line the main streets of Russian cities, the chances are rather high that he or she will turn out to be a student in a local university or
By John Nebauer
BRISBANE — Just three days before the release of the Criminal Justice Commission report into the death of Aboriginal dancer Daniel Yock in police custody on November 7, another Aborigine died in police custody here.
Squatters resist eviction
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — A group of young unemployed and homeless squatters have barricaded themselves inside an abandoned West End Housing Commission house to prevent the state government evicting them.
Kurt Cobain
By Sean Healy
On April 9, Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the rock group Nirvana, killed himself with a shotgun. A suicide note, found next to his body, said, "It's better to burn out than to fade away".
Cobain had only just
Distortion
In his reply to my article (both GLW March 16), Allen Myers accused me of distortion yet used that very tactic himself. For instance, he leapt onto my somewhat facetious suggestion that GLW wanted Third World women to go barefoot and
Ambushing the media
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE —"... exciting ... innovative ... raw ... pulsing with political debate", states the fresh press release for Ambush street theatre's latest production That Was, The Week, That Was or TW3.
The mass left split in the Philippines Communist Party (CPP) which has rejected the CPP leadership's Maoist program and declared itself a democratic socialist tendency, has shaken up the entire Philippines left. Supporters of hardline Maoist and CPP
Youth survey on pollies
A nationwide AGB Mcnair survey, commissioned by ABC TV's youth current affairs program Attitudes, gives a big thumbs down to the federal government and politicians in general.
Only 2% of the 750 respondents aged
By Kath Kenny
SYDNEY — Private security is the second fastest growing industry in Australia after tourism, and Australia now has one of the highest rates of prisoners in private prisons in the world. Last week, John Hannaford, the NSW attorney
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
As most nations
Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
By Rick Atkinson
Harper Collins, 1994. 504 pp. $39.95
Reviewed by Paul Hemphill
In the disturbing documentary The Panama Deception, one of the very few instances of wry humour related to
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