By John Nebauer
BRISBANE — As part of their campaign to overturn the Native Title Act and undermine the ability of Aboriginal communities to defend their interests against corporate giants, the Queensland and federal governments are attempting to
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By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Plans for the national day of action on August 19 are well under way here with an organising committee comprising most unions, as well as involvement from the South Australian Education Network. The rally theme, "For
By Eva Cheng
wenty thousand people attended an "open trial" in Erzhou city in the Chinese province of Hubei on May 30 to hear the judgment of 70 defendants, four of whom received death sentences and were executed shortly afterwards.
In mid-May,
By Margaret Gleeson
In their final appearance of a one-week tour which included meetings in Melbourne and Brisbane, Nicaraguan FSLN members Alejandro Bendana and Zoilamerica Ortega addressed a meeting of 70 in Sydney on July 12. Bendana, former
By Lynette J. Dumble
The Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill of 1996 claims to be about protecting women from harmful drugs, but the rhetoric that ushered the bill through both houses demonstrates that this legislation was more specifically about
By Marina Cameron
SYDNEY — Judgment was reserved by the Classification Review Board on July 12 on the appeal of four former editors of the La Trobe University student newspaper Rabelais. The editors face criminal charges under the National
Picket Reiths lunch with big business
MELBOURNE — On July 18, the Financial Review is hosting a luncheon for the minister for industrial relations, Peter Reith, to discuss the Howard governments new industrial legislation with representatives of
By Corinne Glenn
PERTH — "Challenge, Change, Choice" was the theme of the Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference, held July 8-12 at Edith Cowan University. Some 350 women attended each day's plenary and a plethora of workshops.
By E.A. Selvanathan
Some commentators have predicted that since the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lost the Tamil heartland of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka to the Sri Lankan armed forces, it is the end of the liberation struggle for the
By James Balowski
In the wake of large demonstrations against government manipulation to remove Megawati Sukarnoputri as leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI), questions over President Suharto's health have again brought the issue of the
By Kim Linden and Sue Bolton
MELBOURNE — Workers at the ACI glass plant AGM Spotswood are continuing the fight for their jobs. The dispute could become a test case for the Howard government's industrial relations laws. On June 3, ACI's parent
The federal government's June 11 announcement to increase the woodchip export quota by 1 million tonnes from public forests and an unlimited amount from private land spells disaster for what remains of Australia's native forests.
While the
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