By Graham Matthews
SYDNEY — Around 150 Aborigines and their supporters rallied on March 13 to save the Block around Eveleigh Street, Redfern. Organised by the Redfern Aboriginal Housing Coalition, the rally condemned plans to relocate up to
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By Chris Spindler
SYDNEY — A meeting of almost 100 people here on March 16 debated the question, "Where to for the ALP — which way for the left?". All speakers and contributions from the floor agreed that there needed to be a united
By Norm Dixon
Thousands of West Papuan villagers have rebelled against the giant Freeport gold and copper mine in the Indonesian-occupied western half of New Guinea. The uprising caused extensive damage to the mine and forced its closure for
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Unionists at Comalco's Weipa bauxite mine in far north Queensland are disputing wage rises which the Industrial Relations Commission ruled on March 14 should be paid to 71 award workers. On March 15, Weipa Industrial
By Norm Dixon
"Cubans in Klerksdorp — it sounds like a nightmare sequence from the commie bashing photo-comic, Grensvegter, circa 1979. But the doctors were greeted at the once racially exclusive hospital with no hostility, though much
By Trish Corcoran
Alpa Vora, director of the children's rights organisation YUVA (Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action) recently toured Australia with Community Aid Abroad. YUVA is based in Bombay and is "a group that works on issues of
By Alison Dellit
MELBOURNE — With the election of a Howard federal government on March 2, most student unions at Victorian universities are left with significantly less funds for 1996. In 1994, the state Liberal government introduced Voluntary
Mighty AphroditeDirected by Woody AllenReviewed by Afrodity Giannakis Woody Allen, in Mighty Aphrodite, has apparently given up his exploration of relationships, having found the answer to his previous preoccupations. And the answer lies in the
In harmony
If a child lives with approval, [s]he learns to live with [her]himself. — Dorothy Law Nolte
I am looking at a poster-size collection of drawings and writing that were sent to me by my young friend Amelia Summers. She is now
Peter Wright
Woodchipping: what went wrong?
In a tragic irony, the biggest environment campaign for many years resulted in the federal government dumping its policy to phase out export woodchipping by 2000, and replacing it with a plan to
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