BY SIMON BUTLER
In an article in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly #418, I criticised Aboriginal commentator Noel Pearson's attacks (expressed in his August 13 Chifley memorial lecture) on "progressive" ideas about welfare provision for Aboriginal people. A few
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91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly is having a break from publication next week. The next issue of the paper, #423, will be dated October 25. Don't miss it!
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — It was pressure from within his own party, rather than the stated logistical difficulties, which forced Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks to cancel a planned barbecue to thank police officers for their efforts
BY GEOFF FRANCIS
HOBART — There's nothing new about cuts to health care and hospital closures in Tasmania — successive governments have been at it for at least a decade. What is different about Labor Premier Jim Bacon's latest planned closure
So advanced is Cuba's national health system, in spite of the strictures of poverty and a US economic embargo, that a child born there will live a longer healthy life than a poor child born in the world's richest country. Even a nation as wealthy as
The rise to power in Serbia of Vojislav Kostunica may have somewhat ironic effects on the region.
Western governments were aiming for a "palace coup" against President Slobodan Milosevic so as to keep intact much of the regime, which represents the
BY BILL NEVINS
SANTA FE, New Mexico — "An Indian President!", shouted Robert Mirabal, fist clenched, buckskin and long black hair flying. "That's just one of my crazy, crazy ideas. But why not, people?".
The Taos Pueblo native is leading his
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BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Plans are under way here for what is hoped will be the largest and most spirited 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly dinner that this city has seen for years. The November 18 event, dubbed "N18", will celebrate recent mass protests in
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people took to the streets
of Serbia last week. Belgrade was blocked with contingents from all over
the country: Cacak, Kraljevo, Kragujevax, Nis and other such working-class
centres which led the
Lesbian and gay groups and civil liberties organisations have expressed outrage at threats made by Namibia's home affairs minister, Jerry Ekandjo, on September 30. Addressing a graduation ceremony for police officers in Ondangwa, Ekandjo urged them
A group of scientists (well, they claim to be scientists) from an organisation called The Second Coming Project are planning to bring back Jesus by cloning him.
Their stupendously spooky plan involves taking a cell from a "Holy Relic of Jesus'
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