Homeless Aborigines evicted
DARWIN — At sunrise on May 29, police raided a camp of homeless Aboriginal people occupying bush land at Lee Point. The group — who had camped there for 18 days in defiance of eviction orders from the minister of
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BHP workers rally
NEWCASTLE — A June 12 community rally called by unions covering workers at the BHP steelworks was attended by around 1800 people. Speakers on the ALP-dominated platform used the opportunity to glorify the former Labor
By Norm Dixon
Thirty-two years of US-backed dictatorship have left Congo (Zaire) in a desperate economic and social situation. The personal wealth of exiled tyrant Mobutu Sese Seko is estimated to be as high as $10 billion, almost equivalent to
A teacher at a Melbourne university rang the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ subscription hotline last week with a creative idea for helping his students, as well as 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
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Getting real about jobs
@box text intro = The federal government's decision to delay the gradual reduction of tariffs on cars was welcomed by the car companies with the claim that this would preserve jobs in the industry. But whether jobs will
Leaks from Japan N-plant
Radioactive water leaked from the Shikoku Electric Power Company's reactor in Ikata City, western Japan, on June 5. The leak was the latest in a series of nuclear accidents and cover-ups, the worst being the March 11
By Lisa Macdonald
Sinn Féin's results in three elections within five weeks mark a significant strengthening of the republican movement in Ireland. The wave of successes began with the British elections on May 1, in which a swing of 10%
Kurdish opposition leaders sentenced
ANKARA — The State Security Court (DGM) ruled on June 4 that the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (HADEP) is linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and sentenced party officials and
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — Around 50 people gathered here for the national conference of the New Labour Party (NLP) over the June 7-9 long weekend. The decision of the conference to proscribe members of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) from
Portraits from a time of genocide
Facing Death: Portraits from Cambodia's Killing FieldsAustralian Centre for Photography, Paddington (Sydney)Tues-Sat, 11am-6pm, until July 5. When Cambodian rebels and Vietnamese troops overthrew the Pol Pot
JerusalemBy Michael GurrDirected by Bruce Myles The Wharf Theatre, Sydney
Review by Brendan Doyle
Jerusalem is a fine play. Unlike a lot of recent Australian theatre, which doesn't stray much beyond middle-class angst at the beach house,
By Julian Sempill
"Our approach is to involve all of the Australian people at the beginning and in the middle and at the end of the process. Our approach includes all Australians ... [T]here cannot be too much democracy.
"The question of
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