NEWCASTLE — "We used to have friends over for tea. I always loved and dreaded it too. Great to see friends, but inevitably I would say something 'wrong' — not that I saw it at the time — and she just stopped talking to me for days. Then there
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By Jennifer Thompson
Changes to the Medicare and pharmaceutical benefits schemes and other changes to health funding introduced in the Coalition's August 20 budget have been promoted as a start to the process of restraining government expenditure
By Dave Riley
The way we are encouraged to view them, our working — and particularly our living environments — are hostile places. While we may view our homes as safety zones, outside the front door is something else again. Even a walk to the
The Republicans' two conventions
By Barry Sheppard
The convention of the Republican Party was really two conventions: one for the party's extreme right wing, and the other a carefully orchestrated television event to launch Bob Dole's
Hinchinbrook faces protest blockade
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Conservationists from north Queensland plan demonstrations and a blockade of the Hinchinbrook site of developer Keith Williams' resort project, finally approved by the federal
On August 23, members of the Community and Public Sector Union participated in nationwide stop-work meetings to decide the next steps in the union's campaign against the federal government's cuts to the public service. A motion put by the union's
By Sally Mitchell
DARWIN — August 23 was the 30th anniversary of the beginning of a struggle which ultimately forced the Australian government to recognise and legislate for Aboriginal rights to land. In 1966 at Wave Hill cattle station 200
Porgera shut by protests
Angry villagers succeeded in closing the Porgera gold mine in PNG's western highlands on August 16. Members of the Porgera River Alluvial Miners Association burned seven vehicles. The villagers were demanding greater
By Brian Kelly
In Kupang, West Timor, I noticed a huge crowd of Timorese-looking people staying in a losmen in the city. They appeared to be villager types — not the sort you would normally see at a hotel — and had an air of transience about
By Mick Barclay and Vannessa Hearman
CANBERRA — Nico Warouw, the international representative of the Indonesian People's Democratic Party (PRD), urged CFMEU seminar participants to support the release of all political prisoners and the growing
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