By Corinne Glenn
At the National Union of Students (NUS) state branch conference on November 24, the Labor right (Unity) faction and the Liberals strengthened their grip on the student movement. The Labor left in the National Organisation of Labor
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MATT TINNING was recently elected the 1997 president of the Australian National University Student Association on the "Counter Attack" ticket. ANU Resistance club activist MARTIN ILTIS spoke to him about his plans for next year.
Question: Can you
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's CHRIS SPINDLER spoke to JACK BEETSON, director of studies at Tranby Aboriginal College in Sydney and a founder of the new anti-racism party Australians Against Racism (AAR), about the recent racist upsurge and plans for the
Beanland under fire in anti-discrimination row
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Queensland attorney-general and justice minister Denver Beanland has accused the sacked head of the joint federal-state Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission,
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In a vote riddled with fraud, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on November 24 secured victory in a referendum aimed at allowing him to introduce a new, super-"presidential" constitution. Official figures claimed
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — A range of trade unions and community, Aboriginal, political and ethnic organisations have united to form People for Racial Equality and organise a "Take a Stand Against Racism" rally on December 8. The group originated
Saw no point
"The position of the Australian government is very well understood, and that may well explain why it wasn't raised." — Prime Menzies John Howard, pleased that Asian leaders at the APEC summit hadn't raised the issue of racism in
By Suneeta Peres da Costa
Roland Barthes once referred to the process of writing history as the "compromise between freedom and remembrance". In Australia, we are presently experiencing the strength of this dialectic as it translates to a
Report slams black health crisis
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The disastrous state of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland has been underlined by a state government "status" report on health matters released on
By Dick Nichols
The first three meetings of the leaders of the countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation held in Bogor (Indonesia), Osaka (Japan) and Vancouver (Canada) all went off with hardly any protest. But after last weeks meeting in
By Lisa Macdonald
Last year, 22 Aboriginal people died in custody — one and a half times the number reported in the previous year and the highest number since 1987. At least another 16 people have died so far this year. Over the last seven years,
IMF/World Bank/WTO: The Free Market FiascoEdited by Eric Toussaint and Peter DruckerNotebooks for Study and Research No. 24/25International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE)1995. 116 pp., US$8.75Reviewed by Eva Cheng The Free Market Fiasco
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