The Police Service of Northern Ireland is investigating hate crimes committed at bonfires in unionist (supporters of British rule over Northern Ireland’s six counties) areas on the nights of July 11, An Phoblacht said the next day. Bonfires, which are set alight each July 11 by the members of the unionist community, were strewn with election posters for Irish republican party Sinn Fein and other non-unionist groups, as well as Irish flags and various expressions of sectarianism and bigotry.
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Government amends VSU legislation
By Jo Brown
MELBOURNE — Amendments to the Kennett government's voluntary student unionism legislation, announced on May 24, add a number of services to the list that can be funded through compulsory fees
Blues on the road
In My Time
Charlie Musselwhite
Alligator
Reviewed by Jill Hickson
Here is an album of acoustic blues, '50s swing-style blues and contemporary blues played with remarkable clarity and rhythm.
In this
By Jon Land
Organisers of the Asia Pacific Conference on East Timor (APCET) in Manila have been issued a court order preventing it from going ahead. The restraining order was taken out on May 27 by a private organisation which claims the
Peacekeeping force for Bougainville
By Frank Enright
Mike Forster, the Bougainville Interim Government's United Nations representative, speaking in Sydney on May 27, welcomed the announcement of a South Pacific peacekeeping force for the
More than 1000 people rallied in Melbourne on Sunday, May 8, for the third time in as many weeks to protest against the continuing Serbian war against Bosnia and the hypocrisy and complicity of world leaders. Comprising Bosnians, Croats, Macedonians,
WA forest blockade planned
By Anne Pavy
and Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Four of the best of WA's last wilderness forests — Hawke, Rocky, Sharpe and Giblett in the south-west of the state — are on the Department of Conservation and Land
Secondary Students Against the Cuts
A large number of secondary students from more than 20 schools attended the rally on May 24. Initiated by Resistance, a Secondary Students Against the Cuts stall was set up and names collected for an active
Too easy
Why not run an advert seeking a volunteer Canberra correspondent? The quality of questions at Parliament house is often poor. Any AJA member can go to Parliament House media conferences. It's time Paul and Gareth stopped getting such an
By Frank Enright
When the Labor Party won federal government in 1983, unemployment was on the doorstep of 10%. With the active participation of the ACTU, the Hawke government embarked upon a Robin Hood-in-reverse scheme to transfer a greater
Xanana stands firm as arrests increase
By Jon Land
Xanana Gusmao, imprisoned leader of the East Timorese resistance, has rejected an offer of release into exile. The special adviser of the Indonesian government on Timorese issues, Francisco
By Paul Clarke
Eighty Nazi skinheads went on the rampage, attacking Turkish and African immigrant workers in the German city of Magdeburg on May 12. Far from stopping the attack, at one point police joined in, holding down the victims while
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