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Women teachers' union conference By Julia Perkins PERTH — Approximately 65 women — teachers, unionists, parents and interested individuals — attended the State School Teachers Union (SSTU) women's conference on May 27 to discuss
Straight talk or hot air? The University of New England issued new guidelines on May 23 which encourage students and staff to avoid the use, orally or in writing, of terms which are sexist, racist or offensive to people with disabilities.
By Max Lane Prasetyadi Pancaputra, 25, a student from the University of Airlangga in Surabaya, went on a hunger strike in Jakarta, inside the foyer of the national parliament, between May 18 and June 2. He was demanding that the government
By Liam Mitchell WOLLONGONG — Two of the Illawarra's most polluting industries, BHP and the Corrimal Coke Works, are either evading repercussions or receiving official sanction for their output into the atmosphere. The Environment
By Lisa Macdonald The ALP has done it again. Invoking those old discredited Malthusian arguments which blame population growth for almost every social and environmental ill, newly elected NSW Premier Bob Carr has launched an attack on
Across the country, Resistance activists are preparing to attend its 24th national conference. The conference is being held in Melbourne from July 8-10 and is the largest socialist youth gathering held annually in Australia. It is a focus for
Walking free By Shane Riley Sentenced to jail my freedom lost just another thing taken from the Koori generation They don't care or understand all i want is our land Long bay jail on my tribal ground i walk on her everyday
Action updates BRISBANE — An angry group of chanting, sign-toting protesters opposed to the planned South Coast Motorway taunted environment minister Molly Robson and her ALP supporters as she launched her re-election campaign in Springwood on
Ecological thoughts at bedtime The Story of Rosy Dock By Jeannie Baker A Mark Macleod Book, Random House. $19.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Reading rewards us all. And reading to others — especially if they're little — cuts both ways.
Green Left Weekly soccer championship By Jorge Jorquera PERTH — May 28 was the inauguration of the Green Left Weekly Soccer Championship at Perth College oval. It proved a successful fundraising event for GLW, and provided exercise and
By Eva Cheng During May, the Chinese government threw at least 24 dissidents into jail and detained another 41 in a wave of arrests that followed three petitions by activists and leading intellectuals. The petitions called for the release of
April 30 was the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam. The war has been the subject of much recent media coverage, especially following Robert McNamara's attempt at rewriting history. One view of the war was