By Marina Cameron
As part of a drive to channel money away from the public sector and into private hands, the government is looking for further ways to cut funding to higher education. After cutting $2.3 billion from university operating grants
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The changes to Medicare already introduced by the Howard government include slashing new doctors' access to Medicare provider numbers, abolition of rebates for reversal of sterilisation, reduced rebates for some IVF procedures and for psychiatric
University delegation in East Timor
By Pavel Slodowy
MELBOURNE — A meeting between East Timorese guerilla leader David Alex and a delegation of Melbourne students in February was filmed by University Students for East Timor (USET). Six
By Gerry Harant
After the end of World War II, everybody predicted that the capitalist economic system would be coming to an almost instant sticky end. The world Communist parties knew it; the US establishment feared it and ran an intensive
Four Penan tribes people were arrested and tortured by the Malaysia police field force on March 13, when they were trying to negotiate with the logging company, Samling, near their village at Long Kerong. One, Jangin Jalong, was beaten at the
Students win reinstatement of council
By Rachel Wilson
SYDNEY — It seems university vice-chancellors country-wide have learned a valuable lesson from the national day of action on March 26. The effectiveness of both the rally and the
By Sujatha Fernandes
On March 31, Chandrashekar Prasad and Shyam Narain Yadav were shot dead in the north Bihar district town of Siwan while addressing street corner meetings to build a strike called by the Communist Party of India Marxist
Solidarity forums for Bougainville
By Amanda Lawrence
CANBERRA — On April 14, around 45 people attended a public meeting and film showing organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement. The film graphically detailed the environmental
UWA to remain affiliated to NUS
By Justin Randell
PERTH — A referendum at the University of Western Australia April 14-16 has resulted in the UWA Student Guild remaining affiliated to the National Union of Students. The resounding"yes"
The Fertility of Objects and other playsBy Raimondo CorteseGriffin Theatre Company, The Stables, Sydney Review by Brendan Doyle
"A compelling trilogy about the dangers of seduction." Sounds promising, doesn't it? But what we get from Raimondo
Kennett to privatise public transport
By Tully Bates
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government has announced plans to sell off the entire state public transport system by the end of next year, creating six companies — two rail, two tram, a
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Want to make a pile in post-Soviet Russia? Now that privatisation is mostly complete, the readiest ways of having big roubles drop into your lap belong to the past. But riches can still be yours. The Russian
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