Two reports on released recently in South Australia and Victoria raise a number of proposals of great concern to the community legal centre movement. "Community Legal Centres in South Australia: A Fabric for the Future" (May 1998)
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ASIET gears up for post-Suharto solidarityBRISBANE — "This morning when I wrote this speech, I wrote 'Suharto must go'. Tonight I can say 'Suharto is gone'", East Timorese exile Alfonso Corte Real told a forum organised by
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Indonesia solidarity dinnerBRISBANE — 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
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Criminal justice activists conferenceThe 2nd annual conference of community justice activists — Law and Order: Whose agenda is it anyway? — will be held in Brisbane, March 26-28. The conference will bring together activists
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Media bash 'single mums'Brisbane GP Judy Stokes has shot to media super-stardom in Queensland following her letter to the Courier-Mail calling for single mothers to be forced to give up their children for adoption after the
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In September the Australian Law Reform Commission had the temerity to brief the current federal government on its view of Howard's 10-point plan to extinguish native title. It warned that the proposed legislation is probably
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The arm gets longer and help gets shorterThe federal budget cut to Legal Aid Commissions of $120 million over three years (from an annual budget of $138 million) will leave the majority of Australians with no means of defending
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On May 5, 1996, the people of the east German states of Brandenburg and Berlin soundly rejected by referendum a treaty to unify those two states. The treaty was defeated even though almost every major party
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Carr's promises not being metIn the midst of a close election campaign earlier this year, Bob Carr promised to cut hospital waiting lists in half within one year, immediately abolish toll charges on two
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$3000 up-front fee for NSW law studentsSYDNEY — The three-month professional legal practice course at the College of Law will cost students $3000 plus materials fees of around $250, up front, in 1996. The college says
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SYDNEY — Nearly 10,000 anti-woodchipping protesters encircled the NSW Parliament House on February 19 in a spirited show of strength. Many participants had made their own placards and banners, expressing anger at both
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US writer Naomi Wolf and former Victorian premier Joan Kirner have recently completed a national tour of their self-styled "Feminist Roadshow" or "Sister Act". With ticket prices ranging from $45 to $120, the Sydney forum,