BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
BRISBANE — The S11 protests were a massive success but there was much to learn from it for future efforts. That was the consensus of an S11 Alliance-sponsored public meeting held here on October 4, entitled "S11: After the
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Did the Olympics help reconciliation
BY PETER BOYLEÂ
According to Sir Gustav Nossal, chairperson of the Council for Aboriginal
Reconciliation, the Olympic Games have done more for Aboriginal reconciliation
in two weeks than months
The Palestinian community and other supporters of Palestinians' right to peace and justice mobilised in rallies around Australia over the last week to demand that the Australian government call on Israel stop the killings of Palestinians.
Ray
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HAVANA — In contrast to almost all other governments in the world, including Australia and United States, the Cuban government condemned on October 3 the "barbaric acts" of Israeli troops against Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem, the West Bank
BY DANIEL KELLY
SYDNEY — Two hundred members of the Maritime Union of Australia's central NSW branch have backed a sacked union delegate at P&O Port Botany, Dave Hauser, and called on the union's national officials to support his unfair dismissal
BY DOROTHY FLYNN
South African musician and "People's Poet" Mzwakhe Mbuli — jailed on trumped up charges of armed robbery — attended a hearing of the Amnesty Commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Pretoria on September 18. The
PORT MORESBY — Human rights lawyer and Melanesian Solidarity (Melsol) activist Powes Parkop has warned that West Papua will soon erupt into a more explosive and bloodier war than East Timor.
The Papua New Guinea government must deal with the West
BY SUE BOLAND
"Shareholder activism" is promoted by many environment and human rights groups and trade unions as a new method for achieving social and environmental change. It involves organising an alliance of shareholders to ask questions and
Protests by tens of thousands of workers and students have rocked Indonesia since the government of President Abdurrahman Wahid and Megawati Sukarnoputri, under pressure from international creditors, decreed an average 12% increase in the price of
Ask yourself this: what has a government budget surplus ever done for you?
Has it given you good quality, prompt, free dental care?
If you're a parent, has it provided free, around-the-clock child-care?
Has it given you high quality public
BY SUE BULL
Federal education minister David Kemp unveiled his new funding scheme for private schools on September 28, a scheme which will give millions of extra dollars to elite education even as public education suffers.
Labor opposition
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