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The new #UnitedIreland campaign has released the video below, narrated by actor Irish actor John Connors. The video says it is time to build a new, democratic, inclusive and United Ireland.

Bigots invited into Tasmanian high schools By Katrina Dean HOBART — Tas-Alert, an anti-gay group campaigning against gay law reform in this state, has been allowed space to display its message on secondary school
PIERRE SANE, secretary general of Amnesty International, addressed members of the human rights community in Australia at the Regent Hotel in Sydney on October 9. We reprint here major portions of his talk. Subheads have been added. In 1989
By Zanny Begg Minister for immigration Nick Bolkus is considering legislation that would legalise the illegal detention of asylum seekers between 1989 and 1992. The bill would retrospectively deny compensation to around 350 potential
Open Learning — American Music and Popular Culture — Jazz: Part 1 — New Orleans, Chicago, New York. The Dixieland style dominated jazz for the first three decades of the 20th century. In New Orleans and Chicago, Dixieland was the music of
By Liang Guosheng In his excellent summary article, "Chinese workers challenge 'market Stalinism'" (GLW, August 10) Phil Clarke writes that the "general economic model promoted by Deng Xiaoping's regime is 'market Stalinism' — market
Women in Politics conference The Women in Politics conference in Adelaide over the past week has been hailed by the establishment press as "the revival of the women's movement". But seeing these women sipping champagne in cocktail lounges
Mission for Batwa Pygmies in Rwanda An Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation fact-finding mission arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, on October 3 to begin a three-month investigation into the situation of the Batwa (Twa). The mission is
Loyalist cease-fire Six and a half weeks after the Irish Republican Army laid down its arms and declared a cease-fire the Unionists of Northern Ireland have followed suit. On October 13, the Combined Loyalist Military Command,
By Dave Riley Uncle Sam says: I want you. I want you in khaki. I want you in Haiti. I want you doing your bit for democracy. I want you at one end of a gun barrel. I want what I want — you better believe it — or bang bang you're

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