By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — Just under one year after the Coalition came into government in Victoria, the state remains in severe economic crisis, and a new austerity budget last week hit Victorians still reeling from the attacks brought in by
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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
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 Ana Kailis
The Queensland government agreed last week to buy back large tracts of land on the Cape York Peninsula from Queensland developer George Quaid.
The September 6 announcement came after months of intense campaigning by the
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,
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.
By Anthony Brown
In the federal House of Representatives on September 17, 1970, a young Labor MP, Paul Keating, described transnational mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc's (RTZ) financial control of Australia's natural resources as
Since August 28, Indonesia's media have been preoccupied about a speech by Vice-President Try Sutrisno in which he talked about "internal elements who are prepared to become traitors to their people and nation".
Although ex-general Try did not
By Mark Lockett and Alana Kerr
PERTH — Not to be out-done by Jeff Kennett, the Court Liberal government has stepped up its anti-union campaign by targeting student guilds. The Acts Amendment (Student Guilds and Associations) Bill, better known
US blockade of Cuba opposed
PANAMA CITY — Cuba has taken its case against the
United States' 30-year blockade to the Group of 77,
made up of developing countries.
The head of Cuba's delegation, Angel Gomez Trueba,
attending a
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