By Lisa Macdonald
August 6 marked the 50th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima by the US during World War Two. On August 5 the first round of Hiroshima Day commemoration protests against the French government's recent decision
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Health workers continue industrial action
By Seetal Dodd and Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — In response to a 14% pay claim by Victorian health workers, now in their second week of industrial action, the Kennett government has offered
Kurds on hunger strike
By Susan Phillips
MELBOURNE — Thirteen members of the Kurdish community have been on hunger strike here since August 1, to protest against the genocidal policies of the Turkish government in Kurdistan.
Nicer
@lctext = "We want to make nice nuclear weapons, more efficient nuclear weapons." — Jean Lichere, director of the French Atomic Energy Commission.
Geography lesson
@lctext = "Where is our test site? In the middle of the
Opposition over tollway, tree-clearing grows
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The state government's controversial South-East Tollway and tree-clearing guidelines remain major problems for the re-elected Goss government.
Understanding the unforgivable
Mad Turk
Napier Street Theatre, South Melbourne, August 9-September 2
Previewed by Bronwen Beechey
At 10am on May 9, 1989, a man entered a kindergarten in Hawthorn, a middle-class
Consultation by Zapatistas
The Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee — General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) on June 8 called for a national and international consultation around five questions
In the 1960s and '70s, the Gurindji tribe of the Northern Territory, employed on the Wave Hill cattle station owned by Britain's Lord Vestey, staged a landmark struggle for Aboriginal justice. The campaign, Australia's first successful Aboriginal
@9point = Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm.
@9point = The Price of Gold — One million
Rally for Bosnia
By Jon Lamb
ADELAIDE — More than 1500 Bosnians and their supporters marched and rallied here on August 5, calling for an end to the arms embargo and the ethnic genocide being carried out in their homeland.
Stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal!
The following is an abridged version of a statement circulated by the Committees of Correspondence in the United States.
The governor of Pennsylvania [has] signed a death warrant to set the
In good conscience
By Brandon Astor Jones
@outdent = "My sense is that a majority of Southern Baptists would approve of capital punishment." — C. Ben Mitchell, Southern Baptist minister.
@outdent = The Southern
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