By Dave Andrews
ROSEBERY — A massive, community-based battle has erupted over the threatened closure of the new hospital here on Tasmania's west coast. The state Department of Community and Health Services (DC&HS) announced on May 13 that it
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By Eva Cheng
Dozens of people in China have been arrested, some receiving long jail sentences, under laws which use a sweeping definition of "state secrets" as an excuse to stifle public scrutiny, according to the Amnesty International. Journalist
One in 10: Women Living with Breast CancerBy Diana WardAllen & Unwin, 1996. 274 pp., $16.95Reviewed by Linda Kaucher One in 10 women will develop breast cancer at some stage, hence the title of Di Ward's book.
I met Di Ward at the anarchist
Defence of democracy
"In extreme situations some rules have to be broken." — Georgy Kuznetsov, dean of the television and radio department of Moscow State University's journalism faculty, justifying media distortion and if necessary
By Natasha Simons
On May 14, representatives from Australia's 36 universities met with senior officials from the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) to discuss the biggest cuts to higher education funding in
ADELAIDE — Some 70 people attended the first Jason Porter memorial oration here on May 18. Jason Porter, an activist in Resistance, Community Aid Abroad and Campaign for an Independent East Timor, was killed while travelling through Indonesia in
If greed is so good, why can't I afford some?
I was studying the Business Review Weekly this week to see if I got a mention: Ramray, Rathbone, Reid, Richter, Roberts, Roche, Roth, Rydge — but no Riley in the journal's list of Australia's 200
Rally to the cause of the sick
I've been overjoyed to read about the campaign against the attacks on the public service in the pages of Green Left. Finally, after 12 years of passivity from the leadership of the union movement under Labor we are
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
Visit by Turkish feminist
MELBOURNE — Around 30 women attended a meeting on May 7 with Turkish feminist and Freedom and Solidarity Party member Professor Sahika Yuksel from Istanbul University. The meeting was organised by the Immigrant
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