BY SUE BOLAND
Most recent debate over government funding of private schools has focused on the injustice of public money being used to finance wealthy private schools. There has been little debate on the issue of why government money should be
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Fleas
While it's all very fine to occupy the moral high ground every now and then, when it comes to parliamentary politics we, the enfranchised public, shouldn't always be too insistent on a side order of legalisms with our suffrage. Here, in
S11 films hit Nimbin
LISMORE — For the first event organised by 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly supporters in the famous northern NSW counter-cultural centre of Nimbin, 30 people packed the Timbarra Environmental Caf‚ to watch several documentaries on the
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
According to a National Union of Students' (NUS) research paper, during the last 10 years student numbers have increased by 62.6%, peaking in 1999 at a total of about 671,000 full-time, part-time and external students. Growth in
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Drivers working in the long distance freight industry blockaded oil company depots and the Melbourne docks on November 20. They were demanding an increase in the cartage rate from $1 per kilometre to $1.43 per kilometre,
SAN FRANCISCO — Corporate racism suffered a defeat on November 16. In the largest settlement ever in a corporate racial discrimination case, the Coca-Cola Company agreed to pay more than US$156 million to resolve a federal lawsuit brought by black
BY VIV MILEY
HOBART — Premier Jim Bacon's Labor government introduced amendments to workers' compensation laws in parliament on November 21. While claiming that workers will benefit, the changes have been designed primarily to save the bosses
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government has rushed laws through parliament to retrospectively abolish remissions ("time off for good behaviour") for prisoners in response to recent Supreme Court cases in which prisoners
How the US keeps control
The internet is designed to have no single point of failure. That
isn't the same as having no single point of control.
The origins of the internet were in the US government's Defence Advanced
Research
Newcastle Uni elections
Matt Thompson's letter in GLW #429 attacks our article on the disqualification of Peter Robson from the Newcastle University presidential by-election (GLW #428) without once referring to the article's main points. His letter
BY SEAN HEALY
MAE SOT, Thai-Burma border — Heavily pregnant, Ma Thi Da brings out the plates that she, and 500 other Burmese women, made and then hand-painted in a factory in this border town. They'll fetch a pretty penny in the export markets
BY MAX LANE
Since August, a new left-wing theoretical magazine, Jurnal Kiri (Left Journal), has been published in Indonesia. Three editions of the 160-page magazine have appeared. Its general editor is Marlin, who is also member of the editorial
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