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Insurance rebates goes to wealthy

BY JON SINGER The Australia Institute released a report on September 25 that shows nearly half of the federal government's $2.3 billion private health insurance rebate went to the top third of income earners, while the bottom third received just

'Nothing has changed' since John Pat's death

BY ROBERTO JORQUERA FREMANTLE — "This ceremony of remembrance was for all peoples who have died in police and prison custody and police pursuits", WA Deaths in Custody Watch Committee chairperson Murray Jones told the 60 people who gathered for

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News — Melbourne community TV,

BORIS KAGARLITSKY ON EASTERN EUROPE: 'The reality of capitalism is inequality'

PRAGUE — This city was deliberately chosen as the venue for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to showcase what IMF managing director Horst Kohler triumphantly called "the new Prague", the jewel of a capitalist

Letters to the editor: Write On

Greens and front parties Geoff Ash's letter (GLW 422), responding to my article about David Oldfield's attempts to register front parties, focuses on one small inaccuracy, but fails to address the main issues raised. Ash correctly points out that

Looking Out: A question

A question “Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism” — Georges Bernanos, 1888-1948. Before I begin, let me make it perfectly clear that I am not attacking anyone's sexual

S26: 'Let's not let them off the hook'

PRAGUE — 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's SARAH PEART spoke to protesters at the rally on September 26 about why they were there and what they hoped to achieve. Raul, 24, from Slovakia: I am here to protest against the exploitation of the Third World and

Resistance has been globalised

Resistance has been globalised The massive S26 conferences, rallies and blockades in Prague, in opposition to the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, demonstrate that the movement against corporate

Media Watch 'takes sides' in nuclear dump debate

BY JIM GREEN ABC television's Media Watch program on September 11 took Channel Seven to task for "taking sides" in the debate over the proposed national radioactive waste dump in northern South Australia. The story was initiated by the federal

Networker: Zero interaction

Zero interaction “Television, drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation”, sang the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy a few years ago. From its early days in the first decades of this century, television has been a

Squatters resist eviction

BY AARON BENEDEK SYDNEY — "Evictions are increasing, Olympic rents are going through the roof, and there is a chronic housing shortage", according to Gavin Sullivan, a Sydney Housing Action Collective (SHAC) spokesperson. But this hasn't stopped

Western Sydney rallies for refugees

BY SHANE BENTLEY SYDNEY — Two hundred people chanting "Refugees yes, racism no; Detention centres have got to go!" marched through the streets of Parramatta, in Sydney's western suburbs, on September 23. The rally was organised by the Refugee