By Norm Dixon
Popular discontent with Zaire's brutal and corrupt dictator, President Mobutu Sese Seko, has again erupted in the streets of the capital, Kinshasa. Soldiers, angered by being paid with worthless banknotes, rose in rebellion.
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Bob Brown: 'World needs social justice for all'
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — "Social justice will not have been achieved until everyone in the world has social rights and the right to live", Tasmanian Green MP Bob Brown told a dinner for
By Pat Brewer
"There is an increase in organised violence against women, internationally and nationally, carried out by political and religious groups for political gain." Marie-Jose Ragab, director of the international division of the
Young women's sexual health festival
By Carla Gorton
SYDNEY — Information for young women about HIV and AIDS issues will be the main focus of a national festival at Bondi Pavilion on February 19-20.
"Australian studies warn that
Trammies accept deal with Kennett
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — A mass meeting of members of the Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees Association on February 4 voted overwhelmingly to accept a deal struck between state secretary
Insurers bolt from climate change
Insurance companies are pulling out of some areas hit by an apparent increase in climate-related disasters, says Dr Jeremy Leggett, scientific director for Greenpeace International's climate campaign.
Labor cuts housing funds
The federal government is to cut $50 million from state-tied housing programs, which will affect low income earners harshly.
For years the New South Wales government has underfunded the community housing sector,
Queensland health services face cuts
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Queensland public hospital services face a cutbacks crisis as administrations attempt to confront a $52 million shortfall in the state health budget.
Over the next few
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Several hundred people joined a rally for democratic rights in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall on February 5. The rally was a response to the Brisbane City Council's campaign to remove all political groups from
Words of One Syllable — A radio play by Richard Barrett. Frank is a dying man who is confronting the knowledge that his son is gay and prefers to live in another town with his lover rather than take over the family home after Frank's death and
Concerned Citizens picket
SYDNEY — The Concerned Citizens group continues to hold a weekly picket outside the Israeli consulate here to demand that all the Palestinians deported by Israel be allowed to return to their homes.
The picket
The Fire This Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf
By Ramsey Clark
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. 1992. 325 pp. $35
Reviewed by Allen Myers
Ramsey Clark doesn't mince words on the Gulf War. He breathes indignation, backed by facts: "What
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