Almost one year after a young man died following a police chase in Redfern, Sydney, the Aboriginal community is still waiting for justice. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Graham Matthews spoke to Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) president and
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Message Stick: Leila Murray — The story of one woman's campaign for answers and justice that helped spark the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. ABC, Friday, 28 January, 6pm.
Thapelo: A Prayer for Africa — Exposes the tragic
Kim Bullimore
Kate Raphel-Bender, a Jewish activist was forcibly deported from Israel on January 16. Raphel-Bender, an activist with the International Women's Peace Service, had been arrested along with another anti-wall activist, Kelly
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
Eighteen members of the "Gunns 20", accompanied by 200 supporters, crowded onto a narrow footpath outside the William Street courthouse in Melbourne on January 14, to officially declare their intention to contest Gunns'
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Jim McIlroy and Paul Benedek
spoke to Brisbane Murri community leader and Socialist Alliance activist Sam Watson about key issues facing Indigenous people today.
Could you tell us about the trial in Goondiwindi you've just
Alison Dellit
On January 16, the day after he filed his nomination to recontest his parliamentary seat, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist-Liberation) (CPI-ML) leader Mahendra Singh was gunned down during an election meeting in Jharkhand.
Pensions
The federal treasurer Peter Costello has been saying that with an ageing population in the next 40 years there will be insufficient revenue to provide pensions and adequate health services for older Australians.
This is an inadvertent
The recommendation by the Victorian Law Reform Commission in November to abolish provocation as a defence for killing is a victory for those campaigning for its abolition. The regressive nature of provocation in defence had again ben highlighted with
Josephine Hunt, Canberra
More than two years after their claim for a wage increase first went before the Industrial Relations Commission, qualified childcare workers in Victoria and the ACT were delivered a pay rise of up to $82.20 per week in a
By September 30, the US had spent US$102 billion on the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
The costs of the US war on Iraq have averaged $4.8 billion a month.
The Pentagon spent $3.1 billion in September. This was the smallest monthly amount since
Fred Fuentes
In a surprise move, the National Liberation Army (ELN) has decided it will participate in Colombia's elections for the first time. The four-decade-old ELN is the second largest Colombian guerilla group, with around 7000 fighters.
In
Raul Bassi
When Nestor Kirchner was elected president of Argentina in 2003, many both inside and outside Argentina viewed him as a progressive alternative to the rampant neoliberalism of the Carlos Menem years.
Menem had governed the country
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