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Defence fund

Defence fund There has been an excellent initial response to the appeal for funds to support the hunted PRD activists and the defence campaign for arrested PRD and other political prisoners. Almost $1500 has been donated, including several hundred

Kaltja conference on cuts to Aboriginal arts

By John Girdham DARWIN — Only two days after the announced budget funding cuts to ATSIC, an indigenous cultural symposium was held at the Northern Territory University to discuss the immediate and long-term position of the Aboriginal and

ALP stands by HECS

ALP stands by HECS By Kathy Newnam BRISBANE — The ALP is up to its old tricks trying to con students that the introduction of HECS in 1987 did not disadvantage students. Sheriff Deen, the presidential candidate on the Labor Club's YOU — Your

'Caught in political football game'

DR DAVID LEGGE is a lecturer in public health at La Trobe University. JENNIFER THOMPSON, interviewing him on the effects of cuts to the health budget, began by asking about the $314 million cut to state hospital grants over the next four years,

Media cops

The role of the establishment press in reporting the August 19 rally in Canberra was a gross display of sensationalism. Not happy to leave it at the level of distorting the news, the Sydney Morning Herald has turned its hand to doing the police's

Democracy activists defy Suharto

By Max Lane Democracy activists defy Suharto Budiman Sujatmiko, president of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and 13 other PRD prisoners held in Jakarta have refused to sign the reports on their interrogation. This is the first time political

Budget attacks on poor 'harmful to health'

PROFESSOR IAN WEBSTER is the director of the Drug and Alcohol Unit at Liverpool Hospital in the heart of Sydney's west, and president of the Drug and Alcohol Council of Australia. He told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's JENNIFER THOMPSON that budget cuts

Write on: letters to the editor

Internationalism Recent events in Indonesia cannot be separated from the international struggle for democracy in general and the international working class movement in particular. The arrest of many pro-democracy activists following the July 27

ABC inquiry raises shades of doubt

By Peter Reid Not content with having financially kneecapped the ABC, the Howard government now seems hell-bent on reducing the public broadcaster's role to a shadow of its former self as the controversial Mansfield inquiry begins in earnest

From man in tights to dark knight of decay

By Arun Pradhan When times are bad, it's no time for big risks. Movie producers are not going to sink money into untested "potentially" groundbreaking innovations. They go for the guaranteed money — the sequels — or they resurrect past

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,

Tongue with tales to tell

The Silicon TongueBy Beryl FletcherSpinifex Press, 1996$16.95Reviewed by Patricia Brien New Zealand author Beryl Fletcher's The Silicon Tongue is the story of four generations of women separated by circumstance and united by technology. It starts in