By Tom Flanagan and Steve Painter In eclipse throughout the Hawke years, the Labor Party left is showing signs of re-emerging as an important force, both in the party and in national politics. For many, the first indication of the left's
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By Peter Boyle Minister for employment, education and training John Dawkins didn't succeed in his effort to push a cut in immigration through the ALP national conference in Hobart, but the issue is being taken up by the media and others.
By Dan Connell SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — The stark, rugged mountains of the Sinai desert and the kaleidoscopic undersea world just offshore appear to form one of the most serene spots on earth. Yet a hidden conflict pits the hordes of tourists
By Greg Adamson Thirty-two years after its revolution, Cuba is training 100,000 oxen for plowing, President Fidel Castro reported earlier this year. This underlines the extreme problems faced by the small Caribbean island. Cuba's natural
By Christine Kearney If you're gay, ethnic, left wing, or simply bored todeath with high rotation techno-pop, chances are you'll give commercial stations a miss and tune into public radio. About 20% of Australians tune into public —
By Kevin Healy The sheer inhumanity, the sheer cold-heartedness of totalitarian communism was exposed once and for all this week with a report that people in the Soviet Union are — thank god we live in a caring capitalist society where this sort
Radioactive leakage from Moruroa The presence of radioactive cesium-134 has been confirmed by analysis of plankton sampled last year in international waters close to France's nuclear test site at Moruroa in the South Pacific, according to a report
Controversy over women's dance By Melanie Sjoberg MELBOURNE — Months after the event, Northcote City Council has refused to return a bond for the hire of Northcote Town Hall for the International Women's Day dance. The bond was provided by
The state of Roe v. Wade The film Roe versus Wade, shown by Channel 7 on May 29 (with a group of anti-abortion activists protesting outside) brought to life the legal and personal dimensions of the famous 1973 US Supreme Court ruling.
Newstart When I first heard of Newstart, I assumed that it was yet another tiresome manoeuvre on the part of bureaucrats to allow them even more avenues of harassment: by making us dress up in funny clothes and travel around all day long on public
By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — When the Jabiluka uranium mine site was sold to North Broken Hill Peko Ltd on July 3, the Northern Territory government and what the Australian calls "industry observers" started talking up the possibility that mining
New national meeting? The Brisbane-based "Australian Green Working Group" is circulating a letter calling for a national meeting on the question of a green party, probably in November. The proposal is based on a controversial call at the June 16
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