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
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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
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly will present a cultural evening as part of Feast, Adelaide's annual lesbian and gay cultural festival. "Dance Proud, Fuck Safe, Make Revolution" will include a screening of Stonewall, a film about the
Carnival of the oppressed
Some of us have got together to party. Taking our cue from the S11 protests in Melbourne, we now do theatre in the streets. Of course, you need to recognise that there are many types of theatre.
While we're keen on the
BY GEOFF FRANCIS
HOBART — There's nothing new about cuts to health care and hospital closures in Tasmania — successive governments have been at it for at least a decade. What is different about Labor Premier Jim Bacon's latest planned closure
A few days before the Olympic Games closing ceremony, a private party for many of the Olympic winners was held. After weeks of media reports on how sportswomen were given more respect in these games, reflected in particular during the opening
Despite the end of the Cold War, United States military, economic and political intervention around the world continues to increase, while at home the military budget consumes the hopes for a radical reordering of economic priorities. The idea of a
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