24/01/98 "A World Class Scientrist Speaks"
29/01/98 "The Invention of Casual Sex"
31/01/98 "People Going About Their Business"
5/02/98 "Australia - Old National Song"
13/02/98 The Presidents Dilemma
11/03/98 Grand Prix
Diary
Reflections on this week's Formula 1 Grand Prix.
13/03/98
Private Prisons
Riots this week in our recently privatised prison have fuelled new
debate over the merits of such a system.
Michael took 2 weeks off late March.
9/4/98 Double Dissolution
There is talk locally of a forced early national election by the dissolution
of both houses of Parliament
15/4/98 Parliament
Sacked
Australias largest stevedoring company recently sacked all its employees
in an effort to break their trade union,
using a security copmpany to escort the workers off the wharves before
replacing them with non-union labour.
17/4/98 The Prince
This caricature of the Prime Minister satires the government's role
in the removal of union labour from the wharves
18/4/98 Two Very
Famous Australian Wines
The latest Grange Hermitage vintage has just been released. At $250/bottle,
it's not a 'quaffer".
22/04/98 Export Malice
More on the wharf situation
23/04/98 Talkback
with Jeff
Our state Premier, Jeff Kennet appears regularly on talkback radio.
24/04/98 The Barricade
A different angle on the impending ressolution of the wharf dispute
25/04/98 How To
29/04/98 The Class
Struggle
1/05/98 The Festival of Quiet Resignation
6/05/98 The Way Life is Supposed to Be
7/05/98 Relaxation Exercises for the Politically Aware
13/05/98 The Budgie
The federal budget was handed down yesterday.
15/05/98 Personal Cost Cutting
20/05/98 The Mystery of the Ancient Mummy
21/05/98 The Shadow Minister for Joy
27/05/98 National
Hello Day
The caricature is of the Prime Minister.
28/05/98 the Reality of Existence
29/05/98 The Prime
Minister's Boringness
30/05/98 Inner City
3/06/98 Omeo...
Omeo is a small rural town.
11/06/98 Pauline
A dig at a controversial politician with right-wing views on the Aboriginal
issue.
12/06/98 The Dollar
The Australian dollar has tumbled over the last couple of weeks.
17/06/98 Limerick
Pauline Hanson's political party surprised (and worried) many by seizing
23% of the vote in last weeks Queensland state election.
18/06/98 Everything is Stuffed
20/06/98
Sorry, missed this one.
24/06/98 One Nation
More on Hanson's political party.
26/06/98
Sex on the Television
Local TV networks have voluntarily decided to tone down the sex content.