Call to defend health care
By Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — "Yes, we are political and we will continue to be political. We want more people to be political. We want a healthy society", explained Jill Archer, from Save
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By Catherine Brown
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"I have arranged ... to increase the animosity between the Orangemen and the United Irish. Upon that animosity depends the safety of the centre counties of the North." — British General Charles
By Zanny Begg
The death toll in Rwanda has shocked people around the world. Rows upon rows of dead bodies have filled TV screens, newspapers and magazines since the carnage began in April. It has been estimated that 500,000 people have
Victorian hospital workers strike
By Seetal Dodd
MELBOURNE — Workers at Austin, Royal Talbot and Heidelberg Repatriation hospitals started a campaign of industrial action on September 6 with a 24-hour strike. Work bans and
BRISBANE — A mass meeting called by the Communications Workers Union on September 7 endorsed a motion opposing the Queensland and Federal Labor government's plans to privatise Suncorp, Telecom, Australia Post, ANL and Brisbane airports. The meeting
Mandela's Jakarta visit 'inappropriate'
TAPOL, the London-based Indonesia Human Rights Campaign, called on South African President Nelson Mandela to raise publicly a number of human rights issues during his visit to Jakarta, which began on
A day to be believed
By Linda Kaucher
ADELAIDE — Giving domestic violence victims a chance to talk and be believed was the main purpose of a meeting called by the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) on September 4.
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Although you have disappeared, you live in our heart
By Eliseo Balcazar
Dear mother and father
Dear sisters and brother
Dear companion and friends
Where are you? Where ... are you?
December, January
June August
By Jorge Jorquera
On September 7, some 100 students gathered at Wollongong DEET offices and marched to the court house. The same day more than 500 students rallied at the Australian National University. Students were protesting against
GEORGE GEORGES was for many years a Labor senator for Queensland. In a long career in the ALP, he became a major voice of the party's left wing. But Georges also distinguished himself as an activist outside the party — he was renowned for his
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