By Eva Cheng
In early 1994, when pressure was mounting in the US Congress to cut the country's war budget, chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs General Colin Powell was quoted by Washington's Defense Monitor magazine as saying: "I'm running out
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Poem: "Oh, Alonya's OK"
"Oh, Alonya's OK"
They don't see the water retreatacross the eyes of their children,and hear the love pumping out over the sand,"that is sunset", they say to themselves,missing the bubbles in the blood. for while
Lunch with Mr.KilltheReef Makingsquillions
Luxury yacht in the channelharpoon in hand"That one! I'm that hungry!"
Like a rocket from over the hillanother benign paradiseis lepidopterror-struck into the ledgers of greed.
"Quick Gabriel!
It's not a jokeIt's not a joke
The other night at dinner my mother was telling us about when she first came to Australia from India in the early '70s. She used to wear an ankle-length sari to her job in a doctor's surgery every day. One
Call to ban mining on Stradbroke Island
By Bill Mason
@box text intro = BRISBANE — Conservation and Aboriginal groups on April 27 renewed a call for sand mining on Stradbroke Island to be suspended after reports revealed possible mine
By Tony Iltis and Kath Gelber
HOBART — On May 1 Tasmanian legislative councillors voted almost unanimously to repeal that state's anti-gay laws, bringing Tasmania into line with the rest of Australia. The decision is a victory for a nine-year
By Allen Myers
The federal Liberal Party is looking into ways of changing the voting system for the Senate, according to reports in the Bulletin and the Sydney Morning Herald. The aim would be to ensure that governments would normally have a
By Nick Fredman
LISMORE — The council of Southern Cross University (SCU) has appointed a management committee to "manage the affairs" of the student bodies. Students have strongly condemned the action and are organising to return control to
By Andy Blunden
I object to the level to which GLW has sunk in its support for the International Socialist Organisation's provocation at Melbourne University last month. The April 16 article by Jo Williams and Ben Reid says that the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — You're a worker in an industrial city of provincial Russia, and you haven't been paid in months. You and your family would starve if it weren't for the vegetables you raise in a garden plot on the outskirts of town.
Shellharbour protest picnic
By Margaret Perrott
WOLLONGONG — Fifty people gathered at Bass Point, overlooking beautiful Shellharbour Beach, for a picnic and protest against a proposed marina development on April 20. The action was
Campaign against Eastern Ring Road relaunched
By Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — Two hundred people attended an Anti-Ring Road Organisation (ARRO) public meeting in Eltham on April 30 to relaunch the campaign against the proposed Eastern Ring
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