South Korea: another Asian economy in trouble
By Eva Cheng
Seoul's November 21 call for assistance from the International Monetary Fund is the latest sign that the South Korean economy, the 11th biggest in the world, is in deep trouble.
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West Papua: Indonesia's brutal colonialism
By Sean Moysey
Life in "Irian Jaya" — the name the Indonesian government gives to West Papua — is akin to the colonies of Spain in Latin America, or Europe in Africa. The land and its fruits
By Lisa Macdonald
Pick up any newspaper in any city on pretty much any day of the week, and there'll be at least one article quoting one or another politician, so-called expert or social commentator on how "society" is paying a price for
Rallying for native title
SYDNEY — More than 300 people rallied at the Town Hall steps on November 21 to support native title and Aboriginal land rights. Speakers included Ian Cohen, NSW Greens MP; Dr Arthur Chesterfield-Evans from the
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — Not content with demolishing public sector jobs and services, the Howard government has decided to demolish public buildings in Canberra, supposedly to get the economy going. Sound bizarre and irrational? But wait ...
The following is abridged from a strategy paper prepared by the socialist youth organisation, Resistance, for the National Education Conference in Melbourne, December 6-7. In 1998, for the first time, Australian undergraduate students will enter
Dita Sari hospitalised with typhoid
By James Balowski
On November 18, the Javanese daily Surya reported that the chair of the Centre for Labour Struggles (PPBI), Dita Indah Sari, had been admitted to the Syaiful Anwar hospital in Malang,
By Karen Fletcher
In September the Australian Law Reform Commission had the temerity to brief the current federal government on its view of Howard's 10-point plan to extinguish native title. It warned that the proposed legislation is probably
By Leo Wellin
An ominous silence from Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) officials has marked the end of the first stage of Telstra privatisation. By November 17, after weeks of being tied up in working parties and negotiations over an
Suncorp-Metway staff reject non-union agreement
BRISBANE — Staff at the newly merged Suncorp-Metway Bank voted on November 14 to reject a non-union industrial agreement. Although the plan was defeated by only 51% to 49%, Janice Mayes, state
Move for legal recognition of same-sex couples
By Ruth Ratcliffe
BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor opposition announced last week that it will introduce an amendment to the Powers of Attorney Act to include the recognition of same-sex
Population implosion
"We are all capitalists now, with 1.2 million Australians buying about $8 billion of shares in Telstra." — Sydney Morning Herald editorial, November 18.
Oh so modern
"The [socialisation] objective, totally
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