By Zohl de Ishtar
"We have come to protect you and bring you civilisation and peace." These are the words the French used in 1843 when 500 armed troops, under cover of four warships, marched through Tahiti, arrested Queen Pomare IV (queen
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By Sujatha Fernandes
In all of the apparent outrage expressed by politicians over the French government's decision to resume testing in the Pacific, there has been little mention of the Australian government's own record of nuclear
@f24 = Anger at ship dumping
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — The wreck of the BHP ship Iron Baron on July 10, and the resultant slick of 300 tonnes of fuel oil off the north coast of Tasmania, is one the state's worst environmental
By Alice Davis
ADELAIDE — The royal commission into the Hindmarsh Island bridge fiasco was jolted on July 27 by the one of the key governmental witnesses' withdrawal of his statements. Doug Milera's earlier claims that Aboriginal women's
DSS bans over system failure
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — Union members at Department of Social Security offices and teleservice centres around the country have launched a campaign of bans and reduced public contact hours over
@lhead = Law and Aborigines
@letter = Let us find a way to incorporate Aboriginal customary law into our justice system.
@letter = There have been many examples of ethnic or religious minorities having a large degree of autonomy
Anger at ship scuttling
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — The wreck of the BHP ship Iron Baron on July 10, and the resultant slick of 300 tonnes of fuel oil off the north coast of Tasmania, is one the state's worst environmental
@caps = SYDNEY — On July 29, 30 people from Resistance, the Democratic Socialist Party, Aksi, Australia East Timor Association and Anti-Bases Campaign held a protest against the Kangaroo '95 military exercises due to begin this week. The activists
Reflection
By Shane Riley
@poetry = One dream
@poetry = of freedom returned
@poetry = The way of our people
@poetry = our religion, our culture
@poetry = The land we roamed
@poetry = for over 40,000
ACT students against nuclear tests and Francophobia
By Tony Iltis
CANBERRA â On July 19, 100 students marched from Parliament House to the French embassy, chanting "Non aux essais! Oui la paix!" (No to testing! Yes to
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