By Sally Mitchell DARWIN — On October 12, Aboriginal people from four town camps in Katherine travelled to Darwin in a bus convoy to protest about housing shortages. Four new camps are urgently required to house 71 families now living with minimal
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By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Meatworkers, locked out of the Beaudesert plant of the Australian Meat Holdings Ltd (AMH) after they struck in opposition to a non-union enterprise agreement, are continuing their picket. The enterprise agreement involves a
Forgive them A prison visiting room can be a source of information and learning for anyone who enters one. Segmented titbits and even entire lifetimes are often on unintentional display. Recently my visitor and I encountered the usual audible and
The SeparationDirected by Christian VincentScreening at Cinema Como in South YarraOpens in Sydney on November 16 at Verona Cinemas, PaddingtonReviewed by Margaret Allan. The Separation is a very good French film about the deteriorating relationship
By Jennifer Thompson The release of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures on October 12 showing an increase in unemployment (for the second month in a row) to 8.5% is bad news for federal Labor confronting an electorate which polls indicate
By Peter Montague In 1990, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded the construction of an incinerator in a residential neighbourhood in Jacksonville, Arkansas, to destroy dioxin-contaminated chemical-warfare wastes. At the time, EPA's
By Lucy Svejk According to Campaign Against Sexual Assault (CASA), early this year a woman was raped and another student sexually harassed by a lecturer at an Australian National University honours students camp. This lecturer remains the coordinator
By Chow Wei Cheng JOHANNESBURG — Over the weekend of October 6-8, hundreds of delegates from around Southern Africa converged in Johannesburg for the first Cuba — Southern Africa Solidarity Conference. The conference was organised by various Cuba
By Jorge Jorquera PERTH — The sight of Perth City railway station empty would usually be considered a disaster from the point of view of a regular 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly seller. But on October 17, it was an inspiring sight as Western Australia was
By Eva Cheng Late last month, the 200 or so individuals who control China adopted a blueprint steer the country for the next 15 years. The resolutions of the 14th central committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP) at its fifth plenum in Beijing
By Tom Wilson SYDNEY — It's 7am, and across the city thousands of people are waking up to their clock radios, rubbing their eyes and preparing to go to work. But in the inner west suburb of Sydenham, residents are already out of bed and preparing
By Julia Perkins PERTH — Under the pressure of its ranks and one of the most influential militant minorities in the union movement nationwide, the WA Trades and Labour Council has launched itself into an industrial campaign with some bite.
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