By Bronwen Beechey
Despite the time that has elapsed since the names Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Donald McLean and Anthony Blunt made headlines, they are still guaranteed to send shivers up the spines of the British establishment.
All
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By Greg Ogle
ADELAIDE — On July 15 the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald (and page 3 of the Melbourne Age) announced a "US plan to abandon Australian bases". The story was based on a recently declassified Pentagon document. It said
The warm inner glow
em = By Denis Kevans
I've worked at Lucas Heights for years,
Though tell me any want to know,
And when I leave, I'll take with me
A permanent warm inner glow.
And politicians scoffed their best
At people
Campaign to save professional centre
By Nikki Ulasowski
BRISBANE — Thirty people attended a rally on July 30 against the sale of Bardon Professional Development Centre. The centre is the latest victim in a range of cutbacks by the state
By Cipto R.
JAKARTA — Since the middle of the year, strikes have been increasing. Recently the Ministry of Manpower raised the Jakarta minimum wage to Rp3100 (A$2), and companies should have been paying this amount by July.
There have
From mono-loyalty to real discipline
According to news agency reports, the Indonesian government has decided to impose military training for new civil service recruits in a bid to "improve their skills and mentality".
A policy of
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — The remaining confidence of many Russians in the economic strategies of their government perished over the weekend of July 24- 25, as a shock monetary reform threw retail trade into chaos and threatened to
Students Rally Against Education Cuts
By Nathan Laurent
BRISBANE — A rally of more than 600 student teachers at Queensland University of Technology on July 28 expressed anger at proposed state education cuts.
The rally was
Gross Misconduct
Directed by George Miller
Written by Lance Peters and Gerard Maguire
Starring Jimmy Smits and Naomi Watts
Reviewed by Didit T. and Max Lane
[Note: This review has to reveal the plot of Gross Misconduct. Don't read it
Kierath changes WA compo plans
By Andrew McGain
PERTH — The Court government announced on July 29 that it will "soften" its proposed changes to workers compensation. However, industrial relations minister Graham Kierath's new proposals
See no evil: the Sabra and Shatila massacres
SBS TV's Timewatch series
Monday, August 9, 7.30 p.m. (Adelaide 7.00)
Reviewed by Sean Malloy
"Tell the world. Film it, film it, film it", pleads a Palestinian woman who survived the horrors
By Peter Boyle
On July 26 the federal cabinet worked out new drafting instructions on a legislative response to the 1992 Mabo land rights case. This represents an attempt to come to a common position with Liberal state governments in Western
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