Riot police cracked down and fired tear gas on thousands of protesters in central Rio de Janeiro on October 17 as marches flooded the streets to reject unelected President Michel Temer’s proposed 20-year freeze on public spending, which critics say will spell disaster in the cash-strapped country.
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Something to shake the establishment
The Custodians
By Eric Earley
Directed by Carol Woodrow
With Gary Cooper, Lillian Crombie, Christopher Baz, Ron Hill, Boris Kelly, Melissa King, Dennis Mckay
To September 18 at the Canberra Theatre
Stop press
"We have become a right-wing, conservative party." — Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser on the Liberal Party.
Falling out
"I don't see much joy in sitting down there seeing someone who I have lost a lot of respect for." —
On October 5, 1968, a peaceful civil rights demonstration, declared illegal by the authorities, was brutally attacked by the Royal Ulster Constabulary and its 2000 participants clubbed down on the streets of the nationalist city of Derry, in the
By Julie Brown
PERTH— Greens (WA) Senators Dee Margetts and Christabel Chamarette declared on September 10 that, "As it stands, the federal budget is not one which anyone with a concern for social justice could support, and the government's
Judy Horacek is a cartoonist well known for her work dealing with feminism, the environment, social justice, peace and unrequited love. An exhibition of her past and recent productions will be held from September 16 to 29 as part of Melbourne's
A small win, for once
Good to see the law coming down on the side of women for once.
In a rare and gratifying case in Brisbane last week, Judge Robin in the District Court found that the activities of Right to Life campaigner Graham Preston
By Karen Fredericks
"We don't want to encourage pale imitations of the ABC or commercial radio broadcasters. We want to preserve the spirit of community radio ... the unfiltered voices of real people telling their own stories."
This,
Green Left Weekly's MIRIAM TRAMER spoke to journalist and political commentator AMOS WOLLIN in Tel Aviv about the agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
What are the responses of Israelis and
By Rodney Cheuk
PERTH — Part 2 of the McCarrey Report, outlining the Court Liberal government's agenda of privatisation and corporatisation, was released on August 30.
Written by former under-treasurer Les McCarrey, it proposes a major
The Greens and the budget
Just before Prime Minister Paul Keating flew off to Washington, he dismissed the attacks on his budget in the Senate as "sport" preventing him from governing in the national interest. But the Green and Democrat
British SWP member tours
By Graham Matthews
SYDNEY — Around 60 people gathered to hear Julie Waterson from the British Socialist Workers Party on the topic "Crisis in Britain: Socialist Solutions" at Trades Hall on September 2.
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