By Alex Bainbridge
ROSEBERY, Tasmania — The second annual Rosebery Miners, Axemen, Bush and Blarney Festival was held here over the long weekend February 27-March 1. It attracted hundreds of people — from Rosebery and other towns on Tasmania's
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Another death in Port Phillip prison
MELBOURNE — A 34-year-old man was found dead, hanging in a cell at the Port Phillip private prison on March 19. This is the sixth death at the prison since it began operating six months ago.
This death
By Robyn Marshall
BRISBANE — On March 7, Veronica Brady, the controversial nun from Western Australia, launched her biography of poet Judith Wright, titled South of My Days. The launch, attended by more than 300 women, was held at Loreto College
By Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — In a move designed to provoke industrial action, management at Monash University cancelled all negotiations over enterprise bargaining at the end of February. National Tertiary, Education and Industry Union (NTEU)
By Eva Cheng
At Chinese Communist Party congress in September — the first formal occasion since Deng Xiaoping's death on which China's state, military and CP chief Jiang Zemin could show the world that he was really in charge — Jiang announced
The following is a detailed account of the actions on March 19 and 20 in Lampung, South Sumatra, given to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly by some of the activists involved. One hundred and twenty students were injured, eight with broken bones; 121 were arrested;
Revenge on a coconut
By Brandon Astor Jones
"I have had a 'call' to literature, of a low order — i.e. humorous. It is nothing to be proud of, but it is my strongest suit ... seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of God's creatures."
By Jon Land
United States journalist and East Timor solidarity activist Allan Nairn was deported from Jakarta on March 18. Indonesian authorities threatened Nairn that if he entered Indonesia again he would be jailed for up to six years. Police
IWD in Guatemala
By Chantal Wynter
GUATEMALA CITY — On March 8, a lively gathering of some 3000 women and men marched through the streets of Guatemala City to celebrate International Women's Day. People from the indigenous Mayan community,
Labor's newest star
By Sam King
ADELAIDE — "Come and hear Labor's newest star" said the posters to advertise Cheryl Kernot's March 10 visit to Flinders University, and come they did — around 500 people turned out to hear what Kernot had to
Indonesia solidarity dinner
By Karen Fletcher
BRISBANE — The local branch of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) heard an update on the situation for pro-democracy activists in Indonesia from ASIET national coordinator
By Allen Myers
The real unemployment rate in Australia is probably more than double the official rate of 8.1%, according to figures from an Australian Bureau of Statistics study announced on March 9. The survey "Persons Not in the Labour Force",
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