Green Left Weekly, Issue #372 August 18, 1999 Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an environmental and left perspective. Featured this week: THE PEOPLE MUST ELECT THE PRESIDENT Those on both sides of the official republican debate agree on one thing: in the November 6 referendum, voters shouldn't have a chance to vote for what they favour, direct election of the president. We suggest a method by which we can make known our demand for greater democracy. COVER STORY Republic yes, but not a `safe and conservative' one Rejecting a phony choice Putting the mates back in the preamble RESISTANCE MAGAZINE Violence jeopardises ballot in East Timor East Timor: Will the ballot stop the bloodshed? ASIET clubs set up on campus Left unity falters in Hobart Tom and Nicole nude: big deal Brighton High film screening Cunt or vagina? High school students: a radical history NEWS Workers rally against Reith's `second wave' News briefs Indonesian unionists' tour off to good start Big rallies against Badgerys Creek airport 10 reasons to stop Badgerys Creek airport Rally for abortion rights ACT forced to negotiate with bursars Anti-choice campaigner tours ACT teachers mobilise Action updates NSW TAFE faces the axe Coalminers strike for workers' entitlements Opposition grows to M5 `death stack' Dorf and Beauty Ware picketers defiant Pangea campaign begins Firefighters suspend action Nurses refuse to close ward CPSU tax section council debates `second wave' Solidarity in northern NSW Aborigines call for preamble to include their sovereignty ISSUES Organising the working class Wrecking the oceans Immigration: for an open-door policy Botanical congress predicts disaster INTERNATIONAL NEWS A night with Falintil Canadian nurses lead the way Indonesian activist undaunted by attack Climate change impacts on Arctic Y2K nuclear warning Megawati, Habibie and political alternatives Anarchists attack Czech left India:`We may drown, but we will not move' Pakistanis protest on Hiroshima Day Indonesian oil workers win strike Indonesian army stokes violence in Aceh Timor: `We need to mobilise people's power' Kargil war: a post-mortem Kosova: towards partition? CULTURAL DISSENT The pain of crossed paths Working-class love -- Loach style Garvarghy Road: A community's heroic resistance Skin-deep beauty Leninism and the history of the left On the box REGULAR FEATURES Life of Riley: The very latest draft and ain't I a woman: Gender roles for sale Loose cannons Looking out: Sex and education Write on: Letters to the editor Chris Kelly cartoon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GREEN LEFT WEEKLY Australia's leading alternative newsweekly Break the media monopoly: read it, buy it, write for it, sell it. http://www.greenleft.org.au/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY SUBSCRIPTION: $10 FOR 10 ISSUES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink