Lagman freed
By Sonny Melencio
MANILA — Filemon Lagman, the underground leader of the Manila Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was released from detention on bail of 100,000 pesos on the evening of June 17.
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Ear to the Ground — Burra: Transitions — Continuing a feature series on South Australian history, this program looks at the former copper mining town of Burra in the state's mid-north. Cornish miners, Chilean muleteers, pigeons in the mine
Health insurance should be unnecessary
Recent reports to the federal health minister have once again raised the perennial problem of Australian politics — health funding. For ideological and self-interested reasons, the debate is unlikely to
By Dave Mizon
MELBOURNE — Delegates and officials from the main unions in the oil industry met with ACTU secretary Bill Kelty on June 14 to discuss a campaign in response to the massive attack by Caltex on the wages and conditions of Kurnell
By Gareth W.R. Smith
CANBERRA — Gareth Evans, speaking of the November 1991 Dili killings, described them as "horribly aberrant behaviour ... rather than a deliberate, centrally directed act of state policy". However, the experience of
'Armed and Dangerous': My Undercover Struggle Against Apartheid
By Ronnie Kasrils
Heinemann, 1993. 374 pp., $15.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
When Ronnie Kasrils touched down at Johannesburg airport in 1989, he had chalked up 30 years
Indonesian warship fiasco
By Jon Land
A controversy has erupted in Indonesia over the refitting of 39 German warships purchased last year by the Suharto government. Technology and research minister Jusuf Habibie arranged the deal without
Tuntuni Bhattacharyya and Pat Brewer
Abortion is a political issue
On July 11, pro-choice activists held a picket outside the NSW ALP conference. The picketers were demanding from delegates that the ALP end its conscience vote on abortion
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — The NSW ALP state conference, June 11-13, appears to have settled, for the moment, the battle between left and right factions over preselections for state parliament.
A casualty was right-winger Peter Anderson,
New trade union for Indonesia?
By Max Lane
In a statement issued on June 13, the Free Discussion Forum (FBB), a group with extensive links among Jakarta factory workers, called for the formation of a new national trade union. The FBB
By Frank Enright
Mounting internal and international pressure has finally forced the Papua New Guinea government into peace talks with representatives of the Bougainville Interim Government. The talks are being held in the Solomon Islands
By Kath Gelber
Legal reform and anti-discrimination measures have been the focus of much debate and activity in the lesbian and gay communities over recent years.
Legal recognition of lesbian and gay relationships has been a particular
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