By Craig Cormick CANBERRA — Local writers have responded to a call from the international writers' organisation, PEN, for writers to voice their protest against the French government's nuclear tests using their favourite medium — writing. On
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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
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 Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — More than 500 people packed into the North Melbourne Town Hall on October 20 to hear journalist and human rights campaigner John Pilger speak about East Timor's struggle for independence. The meeting was organised by
Australian Timor hypocrisy condemned CANBERRA — Harold Moucho of Fretilin, speaking at a Resistance club forum, accused the PM and foreign minister of hypocrisy with their claims that the East Timorese refugees are Portuguese not Indonesian
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
Tarkine campaign gathers strengthBy Ben Courtice HOBART An extraordinary meeting of the state Liberal government's house committee looks set to ban protests from the grounds of Parliament House. This follows a vigil and rally to save the Tarkine
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 Ben Courtice HOBART — "The Greens are going for government" and are "not some kind of ginger group" Australian Greens leader Bob Brown told a fundraising gathering here on October 14. A recent poll, commissioned by North Forest Products, showed
On October 26 and 27 women around Australia will take part in the annual Reclaim the Night march, demanding an end to violence against women and children. Reclaim the Night marches in recent years have been attracting large numbers of women, many of
The Center for Women's Global Leadership has called a "16 days of activism against gender violence" campaign, culminating in an International Day Against Violence Against Women on November 25. The first such campaign was held in 1991. The centre
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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