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By John Percy WELLINGTON — The New Zealand Alliance conference met in Wellington on April 6-7 and placed the party in full campaign mode. Elections must be held by October, the first under the multi-member proportional system (MMP) that will
By Barry Sheppard Robert Dole will be the Republican presidential nominee, and the other Republicans have faded from the public spotlight — all except one. Patrick Buchanan will use the delegates he won in the primaries to make his voice heard
By Bill Mason BRISBANE A landmark Cape York agreement between Aborigines, conservationists and pastoralists will go ahead, regardless of the opposition of Queensland Premier Rob Borbidge, according to Noel Pearson, Cape York Land Council executive
ROY BAILEY's recent tour of Australia finished at the National Folk Festival in Canberra over the Easter weekend. Before the tour was over, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's ALEX BAINBRIDGE caught up with him in Newcastle to talk about his music and politics.
GREG ADAMSON is an ACT assistant branch secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union and a member of the Democratic Socialist Party. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's JENNIFER THOMPSON spoke to him about how the union movement can resist the Howard
By Geoff Spencer GEELONG — The E.P. Robinson Pty Ltd plant here is an amazing sight. There are glass panels missing from the skylights; a number of others are slipping. More than one worker has narrowly missed being hit by a falling panel. When
MOSCOW — Jailed Russian environmentalist Alexander Nikitin has won an important victory in his fight to beat espionage charges brought against him by the Federal Security Service (FSB — the former KGB). On March 26 President Boris Yeltsin
You Can Touch Me ... I'm Part of the Union — At a time when union popularity and membership are on the decline, one Australian union has decided recruit a group of workers previously ignored by the trade union movement — sex workers. ABC Radio
By Sally Mitchell The Ranger uranium mine operates 220 kilometres east of Darwin, where people have lived off, and looked after, their country for tens of thousands of years. It is also within the World Heritage Area of Kakadu National Park. In
The brush-offBy Shane MaloneyText Publishing, 1996. 314 pp., $14.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Shane Maloney, novelist and humorist for the Australian left magazine Arena, is not Raymond Chandler, ace writer of classic private detective novels, but
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Jim Dowling, a long-time peace activist and member of the Catholic Worker group, was jailed for three months on March 22, for a peaceful protest with other Christian demonstrators at the Defence Force Headquarters in the
The Cutting Edge. Weapons: A Battle for HumanitySBS TV8.30 pm (8.00 pm in SA), Tuesday, April 23Reviewed by Brendan Doyle In Angola, a child playing in the fields picks up a green thing that looks like a large plastic butterfly. It explodes, and the