CANBERRA — The February 1 federal by-election in the north Canberra seat of Fraser has become a focus for the "race debate". Of the 11 candidates, six have publicly advocated racist controls on immigration.
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Chilean political prisoners rescuedThe mass media in Chile have called it "the escape of the century". On December 30, after a daring helicopter flight by a kidnapped police officer, activists armed with M-16s landed in the
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The 1996-97 ACT budget launched a new Liberal government program to move people out of secure and affordable public housing and into the private home-buyers market. The "Kickstart" program is the result of the suspension of the ACT
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Land rights and solidarity needed to defeat racist attacksAlongside the Howard government's attacks on public sector workers, we are witnessing their devastating and racist attack on indigenous Australians. This began during
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The April 18 NSW Supreme Court ruling by Justice Newman that abortion is illegal in that state has caused a furore in the ACT mainly because it is unclear how the ACT will be affected. In the first instance, it is seen as a
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National women's conferenceCANBERRA — CAPOW!, the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women!, is a new networking body which is establishing itself as a powerful force for the more than 50 national
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CANBERRA — ACT chief medical officer Dr Cathy Mead told a gathering of concerned parents and health care practitioners at a forum held here on October 23 that modern immunisation practices were in effect a giant human
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Miguel Marmol, known to his people and comrades as "the living legend", and to his enemies as "the red phantom", died of natural causes on June 24 in San Salvador at the age of 75. A dinner and video showing is being held in
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CANBERRA — The trial of anti-apartheid activist Kerry Browning has now entered its third week. Browning was originally charged with fire-bombing three cars belonging to US and South African embassies in 1988. After nearly three