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Fallout on Tahitian nuclear tests Following the publication in Papeete, Tahiti, of the results of the independent inquiry into the consequences of the nuclear tests on the Tahitian people, several members of Hiti Tau, a Polynesian
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, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne community
News briefs Young Liberal boycott campaign PERTH — The Young Liberals (WA) have threatened to boycott Body Shop stores for selling armbands in opposition to Howard's 10-point plan. Profits from the sale of armbands — which carry a range of
Hinchinbrook 'beach being built' Video evidence collected by the Friends of Hinchinbrook and the North Queensland Conservation Council shows that Cardwell Properties, the Hinchinbrook developer, is constructing a beach on the foreshore and over
By Peter Gellert MEXICO CITY — A major human-rights scandal involving the city's police department continues to pick up steam following the arrest on November 18 of three top military commanders of elite police units. The police force has been
Information nights tackle ignorance on Wik By Andy Morison BRISBANE — Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation in Queensland have begun a series of information nights in marginal federal electorates. Frustrated by the federal
Conference urges international workers' unity By Caroline Lund SAN FRANCISCO — An important conference took place in mid-November: the Western Hemisphere Workers' Conference Against NAFTA and Privatisations. The nearly 400 participants came
Rally opposes uranium mining, woodchipping, greenhouse emissions HOBART — About 150 people staged a lively march through the city streets here on November 28 to protest against plans to mine uranium at Jabiluka in Kakadu. The protest, organised
By Peter Sullivan On October 26, municipal elections were held in Colombia. The international media were at pains to convince the world that Colombia's bipartisan political system was one of the most advanced "democracies" in Latin America. The
Music across cultures Reviewed by Sujatha Fernandes Star RiseNusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael BrookFeaturing remixes by Joi, Talvin Singh, Asian Dub Foundation, Sate of Bengal, Aki Nawaz, Black Star Liner, Nitin Sawhney, Earthtribe, the Dhol
CES staff strike against individual contracts By Paul Oboohov CANBERRA — Commonwealth Employment Service workers here struck on the afternoon of November 27 to protest against cuts in working conditions contained in an individual contract.
Lenin was right "One of the first people internationally to define the Labor Party was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin when he described the Labor Party in 1913 as altogether bourgeois and altogether Liberal." — ALP leader Kim Beazley. Not far at all