91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's MAX LANE interviewed JOSE RAMOS HORTA after Horta, along with Bishop Carlos Belo, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Question: What impact will the award of the Nobel Peace Prize have?
First of all, the Nobel Peace Prize has
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By Barry Healy
SYDNEY — In a major victory for local residents Waterloo incinerator will close on November 23. The announcement brings to a close 31 years of controversy about the plant. Waverley and Woollahra councils, the incinerators owners,
By Jennifer Thompson
SYDNEY — Prisoners' and civil rights group Justice Action has condemned NSW MP Andrew Tink's new bill, introduced in parliament last week, which would give NSW police the power to detain and interrogate suspects for up to 12
By Max Lane
In New Delhi, India on October 28 students, trade unionists and human rights activists will demonstrate outside the Indonesian embassy against the crackdown on the democratic movement and the imprisonment of activists and the leaders of
By Pat Brewer
CANBERRA — At a stop-work meeting on October 16, National Tertiary Education and Industry Union and Community and Public Sector Union members unanimously agreed to drop industrial bans as a sign of good faith in stalled enterprise
The tour of Peoples Democratic Party (PRD) representative, Nico Warouw, has contributed significantly to public awareness of the campaigns for democracy in Indonesia and to free jailed political activists, say tour organisers. Susan Price reports
Towards a Sustainable Economy: The need for fundamental changeBy Ted TrainerEnvironbook, 1996. 182 pp., $24.95 (pb)Reviewed by Pip Hinman "Our most worrying global problems are directly due to an economy driven by market forces, the freedom of
By David Robie
Tongan pro-democracy MP and publisher 'Akilisi Pohiva and two newspaper editors walked free after the supreme court on October 14 ruled that they had been detained illegally. The three had served three weeks of a 30-day sentence.
Undaunted
"The first rule of [brutish] tyrants everywhere: create confusion and uncertainty. What is acceptable today must be forbidden tomorrow." — Benita Eisler
Like thieves in the night, the brutish Georgia Department of Corrections arrived
By Virginia Brown
PERTH — The International Women's Day collective and West Australian-South African Solidarity have joined forces to tour Jabulile Matilda Ndlovu, a South African women's activist, trade unionist and writer. Meetings will be held
DAGURAGU — Aboriginal women and men built the cattle industry in Australia with little recognition, providing the cheap labour for the profits of pastoral leaseholders like Lord Vestey at Wave Hill. These leases were granted on Aboriginal people's
Dreamer
Dream big.
If you don't have dreams
you have nothing.
Nothing at all.
So dream on.
And when you dream
— dream big.
Dream of a better world ...
Of a world without hunger,
of a world at peace.
Dream of freedom, justice
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