91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly asked the Democrats, the Greens and the Democratic Socialist Party for their views on the threat to the public health system. The three questions asked were:
The government has tried to sell its changes to the health budget as
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Michael Lapsley, Priest and Partisan: A South African journeyBy Michael WorsnipOcean Press, 1996. 167 pp., $19.95Reviewed by Marina Cameron This book, about the life of prominent ANC activist and Anglican priest Michael Lapsley, provides some
Indonesian struggle for democracy — The Suharto regime has launched a major crackdown against the democracy movement in Indonesia. Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) has launched an emergency campaign to win the release of
By Peter Reid
Not content with having financially kneecapped the ABC, the Howard government now seems hell-bent on reducing the public broadcaster's role to a shadow of its former self as the controversial Mansfield inquiry begins in earnest
By Iggy Kim
HOBART — The Labor Party responded to the state budget with opportunist posturing. On August 19, its MPs puffed out their chests, stated they would vote against the budget and proposed extending the state debt by $120 million in order
Over the weekend of August 23-25, protests were held calling for an end to Australia's de jure recognition of the Indonesian annexation of East Timor. Actions in Darwin, Newcastle and Hamilton were reported in the last issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. In
By John Girdham
DARWIN — Only two days after the announced budget funding cuts to ATSIC, an indigenous cultural symposium was held
at the Northern Territory University to discuss the immediate and
long-term position of the Aboriginal and
Waiting for Lefty
Here we are together again. It's been a week since we last met. So how's it been?
You may be a regular, then again you may not. At least you have the paper within your grasp — now turning the pages to see what catches your
Tough luck for most women
On August 27, the NSW Young Labor state conference elected its first all-female leadership. The next day the Sydney Morning Herald ran a story on Liz McNamara and Joanna Woods, the new president and secretary respectively.
ALP stands by HECS
By Kathy Newnam
BRISBANE — The ALP is up to its old tricks trying to con students that the introduction of HECS in 1987 did not disadvantage students. Sheriff Deen, the presidential candidate on the Labor Club's YOU — Your
The role of the establishment press in reporting the August 19 rally in Canberra was a gross display of sensationalism. Not happy to leave it at the level of distorting the news, the Sydney Morning Herald has turned its hand to doing the police's
PROFESSOR IAN WEBSTER is the director of the Drug and Alcohol Unit at Liverpool Hospital in the heart of Sydney's west, and president of the Drug and Alcohol Council of Australia. He told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's JENNIFER THOMPSON that budget cuts
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