By John Tomlinson
Sectional interests can gain interim advantage over other less powerful sectional interests. Disability lobby groups can succeed in getting government to advance the interests of those with a disability over the unemployed and
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Bushfires highlight reactor madness
By Jim Green
SYDNEY — On December 2, bushfires swept through the Sutherland Shire/Lucas Heights region in Sydney's southern suburbs, burning on three sides of the $500 million nuclear reactor facility
Santa and me
When we last met, B.A. Santamaria and I were brothers in the war against communism. I can't say we were comrades, as that wouldn't be apt. Since B.A. only recruited menfolk to his secret armies, the sisters never really got a look
By Norm Dixon
US television giant CBS has egg on its face after its big name news anchor, Dan Rather, was caught rehearsing "live" coverage of a US air attack on Iraq with the network's Pentagon correspondent. Somebody forget to flick a switch on
By Lisa Macdonald
Next time you see an opinion piece about how women are finally breaking into this or that male domain, or how young women are now "doing it for themselves", or any of the current epidemic of "you've come a long way baby!"
Unionists discuss strategy for fight back
By Michael Bull
MELBOURNE — "What strategy and tactics for unions today?" was the title of a timely forum sponsored by 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly and the Democratic Socialist Party on February 24. The speakers
By James Vassilopoulos
When John Howard wished the 110 Special Air Service troops good luck and "god-speed", standing next to him offering bipartisan support was opposition leader "Bomber" Beazley. In 1991, PM Bob Hawke didn't even wait for US
Japan's capitalism: creative defeat and beyondBy Shigeto TsuruCambridge University Press, 1993; Canto edition 1996. 277 pp., $18.95 Review by Eva Cheng
A vast amount has been published on Japan's spectacular economic recovery from the ruins of
By Gerry Harant
The VFT (Very Fast Train between Sydney and Melbourne) project is being indecently exhumed, after we thought we had buried it for good in the early '90s. Sir Peter Abeles, the main driving force behind the project, explained that
For two months, the banana groves in four of Dole Corporation's principal Philippine plantations have been uncharacteristically silent.
Inside the belly of the beast
When the first issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly hit the streets just over seven years ago, the United States was leading "Desert Storm", the bloody military attack on Iraq. Sanitised and censored news reports in the mass
HOWARD JONES is the university research professor and chairperson of the University of Alabama's College of Arts and Sciences (Department of History) at the Tuscaloosa campus. He is author of Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its
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