The meeks are gathering
Blessed with the opportunity to meet with the GLW reading public over the recent Easter break, I am pleased to announce the founding of a new third force set to shake up electoral politics in this country. Mrs A. Meek of
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By Jenny Thompson
and Eva Cheng
Governments and media alike are promising extensive benefits from the recommendations on competition policy known as the "Hilmer Report". A recently released Industry Commission (IC) study on the report projects
By Tom Maguire
LONDON — A sharp polarisation of voters towards the extreme right and left was a key feature of the first round of the French presidential elections, held on April 23.
French presidential elections are held in two rounds if
In 1991 the United Nations passed a resolution which called for a moratorium on the use of driftnets on the high seas. Driftnets are defined by the UN as gill nets over 2.5 kilometres long and left to drift beyond the exclusive economic zone of any
Melbourne rally for East Timor
By Jo Brown
MELBOURNE — About 500 East Timor supporters picketed the opening of the "Great Expectations: The United Nations at 50 Years" Conference at Melbourne University on Thursday, April 27.
The
Principles
"We want to make life as difficult for them as they made life for us ... they used their numbers on the floor to block sensible, rational legislation ... they can count on us using all the forms and procedures and every tactic in the
Kind Hearted Woman
Michelle Shocked
Self-produced
Reviewed by Jen Crothers
Michelle Shocked has not had an easy road in the music business. It started with the unauthorised release of what she now calls the "Texas Campfire Thefts" (The
By Jim McIlroy
So Robert McNamara, the architect of the United States war against Vietnam of the 1960s and 1970s, now considers the war a "mistake", and an "unwinnable war." I doubt it. The real problem was that the US and its allies such as
Forgiveness, today!'
By Brandon Astor Jones
What will it take for all of us to transcend ancient angers, hurts and assumptions? — Donna Britt in the Washington Post.
No-one in the USA knows more about how slow black people are to
ZR Rifle: The Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro
By Claudia Furiati
Melbourne: Ocean Press, 1994. 183 pp., $22.95.
Reviewed by Allen Myers
Conspiracy is not the cause of history, but history often creates conspiracies. In the three decades
By Tony Hastings
MELBOURNE — "Stop woodchipping old-growth forests" was the chant as 40 people from Friends of the Earth, the Wilderness Society and the Cross Campus Environment Network marched through the city on April 21. The action was
Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program that tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm.
Movie: Dilemma (1989) — A socially committed woman
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