By "Peaceful Protester"
DARWIN — About 20 East Timorese and Australian protesters rallied in front of the Indonesian Consulate on May 24. Crosses with the names of those murdered were leaned against the front fence of the consulate. We stood
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By Roger Clarke
BRISBANE — A public meeting of the Labor Women's Organisation on May 25 was addressed by a panel of speakers concerned about the low proportion of women among Labor MPs. The speakers were: Joan Kirner (former Premier of
HOBART — The "Pedder 2000" campaign — to restore Tasmania's Lake Pedder to its original condition — has attracted considerable attention since it was launched on April 18 by David Bellamy, Bob Brown and the David Suzuki Foundation. They said it
Maternity allowances
The federal Labor government last week mooted a proposal to pay maternity allowances through the social security system to women workers employed in the private sector.
It has been described as a pro-women reform,
By Doug Lorimer
Ron Guignard (GLW, June 1) argues that Marxism is not scientific because it fails to meet "a rigorous definition of pure science", and because a series of predictions about the development of society supposedly made by Marx have
By Ignatius Kim
Everyone knows that when applying for a job you have to "sell yourself". Selling yourself is like selling any other product: the packaging must be appealing and the price attractive enough to make the purchaser feel that he/she
His master's voice
"Caved in to employer pressure" and "Brereton's backflip" were the typical responses of the establishment media to the announcement that industrial relations minister Laurie Brereton would modify the unfair dismissals
Introducing Asian Studies — Political Economy in Postwar Eastern Asia — This series begins with a look at the differing policies and rates of growth in the region from China to Japan. Part one of a 13-part series. ABC Radio National, Friday, June
By Vivienne Porzsolt
Last week I saw Ordinary Fascism, a fascinating documentary on Nazism by Soviet film maker Mikhail Romm. Made in 1961, it is remarkable both for its portrayal of that weird brand of fascism and for the way it does so.
Anti-Shell campaigner arrested in Nigeria
Ken Saro-Wiwa, leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) in Nigeria, was reported on May 26 to have been charged with the murder of four Ogoni elders. A representative of the
By Lisa Macdonald
Iain Aitken, in "The use-value of postmodernism" (GLW May 25), falls squarely into the trap set by postmodernism which has caught so many, often well-intentioned, leftists before him. This is the illusion that postmodernism is
By Jon Land
Situated 4000 metres above sea level, amongst the glaciers and tropical alpine valleys of the central highlands of West Papua, is Indonesia's biggest and most controversial mine, the Freeport-McMoran copper and gold operation at
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