Campaign against privatisation
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — A July 13 meeting of activists from trade unions and community groups decided to launch a campaign against the federal and state government's plans to privatise parts of the
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By Lawrence Kilimwiko
DAR ES SALAAM — Nine years into the structural adjustment program (SAP), Tanzania's workers, social workers and human rights activists are saying the program disregards basic human rights.
They point out that
In Australia's Spies and Their Secrets, author David McKnight uncovers a shadowy hand behind the events which shaped Australian politics from the end of the second world war to the 1970s. In this period the Australian Security Intelligence
Public service ends base grade recruitment
By Steve Rogers
CANBERRA — From September, the Australian Public Service is to end recruitment of regularly paid base grade (or ASO1) officers. These are to be replaced by "trainees". This has
Gay businesses push boycott campaign
By Kath Gelber
The struggle to repeal Tasmania's anti-gay laws has taken on a new edge with the launch of a boycott campaign by gay businesses around Australia and internationally. The campaign aims to
Opposition to Grand Prix grows
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Despite concerted government and media attempts to discredit the Save Albert Park campaign, thousands attended a second rally to protest plans to hold the Grand Prix at the
Right reinforced in Qld ALP
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The right's stranglehold on the Queensland branch of the Labor Party was strengthened at the party's triennial state conference during the week June 27 to July 1.
The dominance of
Tommy Emmanuel live
By Peter Riedlinger
GYMPIE — Joseph Furphy once said of his great novel Such is Life that it had "temper democratic, bias offensively Australian". In the case of the Tommy Emmanuel concert here on June 16, I would
Attempted coup a diversion
In the days following my return from Phnom Penh, dramatic events put Cambodia back on the front pages of the world's press. As I arrived at the airport on July 1 a friend told me: "There's a coup in process — right
By Penny Saunders
QUITO — Indigenous people throughout Ecuador have been engaged in protests against a new agricultural law which was approved by the national congress and President Sixto Duran Ballen at the beginning of June.
Protests
Queer conference stresses activism
By Ana Kailis
BRISBANE — Two hundred students from around the country attended the very successful Queer Collaborations Conference here from July 2-9.
The conference opened with a rally at Albert
SYDNEY — Supporters of the East Timorese struggle "closed down" the Indonesian consulate here in an early morning action on July 7. Chains and locks were attached to the gates and doors, and posters calling for the liberation of East Timor and
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