Chris Spindler

  • ACT's socialist alternative

    ACT's socialist alternativeCANBERRA — The Democratic Socialist candidates for the February 21 ACT election launched their policies on February 5. Tim Gooden, one of three Democratic Socialist candidates for Molonglo,

  • Opposition to nuclear reactor grows

    Opposition to nuclear reactor growsSYDNEY — Citizens Against a Nuclear Reactor (CANR) has been formed to oppose the federal government's plans to build a new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights. CANR is calling on the government

  • Overseas trained doctors on hunger strike

    SYDNEY — A group of overseas trained doctors are on a hunger strike to protest discrimination against them. The Australian Doctors Trained Overseas Association (ADTOA) is trying to counter a sustained campaign by the

  • 'Certainty' still there for the big landholders

    'Certainty' still there for the big landholdersConfidence in the value and profitability of land clearly remains strong in the eyes of big property holders, despite claims from the National Farmers Federation and the

  • Green Left Weekly sellers harassed

    SYDNEY — Green Left Weekly sellers have been visible most lunchtimes and afternoons in Town Hall tunnel (between the Queen Victoria Building and Town Hall station) for as many years as Green Left has been publishing. However,

  • Meeting debates protection of NSW national parks

    Meeting debates protection of NSW national parksSYDNEY — The Carr Labor government is taking NSW national parks down the commercialisation road via its recently drafted "Access Strategy Plan". Up to 300 people attended a

  • Eviction threatened on Eveleigh Street

    Eviction threatened on Eveleigh StreetSYDNEY — The Redfern Aboriginal Housing Company is threatening to evict a family of eight from 54 Eveleigh Street, Redfern. Robyn and Victor Hookey had stated they would pay rent owing

  • Sydney rally for native title

    SYDNEY — Up to 10,000 people took part in the October 11 rally for native title in the Domain. Organised by Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, the rally was chaired by the ABC's Julie McCrossin and heard speeches from Hazel Hawke,

  • Campaign against Jabiluka mine

    The federal government's decision about whether or not to allow uranium mining at Jabiluka in the NT will be made very soon. If the go-ahead is given, Energy Resources Australia (ERA) will open the new mine and push a

  • Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody!

    John Pat was found dead in a police cell in the west Pilbara town of Roebourne, WA on the night of September 28, 1983. Locked up after helping friends who were being attacked by off-duty police officers, he

  • Behind Howard's rural package

    Despite protestations about helping the rural sector, the federal Coalition's rural package, released a fortnight ago, does little more than continue the policy begun by the previous Labor government of actively removing small

  • Anti-racism seminar discusses strategy

    Seventy people attended a fascinating seminar on the origins and nature of racism, and how to fight it, held at the Resistance Centre in Sydney on September 9. The talks presented generated a lot of discussion, in particular a