Last week, Green Left Weekly's KATRINA DEAN spoke to LIZ O'BRIEN, manager of Community Radio 2XX in Canberra, about the station's 20th anniversary this year. In 1975, the Council of Social Services, Council of Cultural Societies, the Sports Council,
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By Anne O'Callaghan
PERTH — You know that the system is in trouble when they start playing the race card. It's like beating up some of the passengers on the Titanic — it makes some people feel in control, while the ship keeps sinking. This is
SociobeastFlipside PerformanceDispensary Cafe84 Enmore Road, Newtown, SydneyNovember 1-4 and 6Previewed by Nick Fredman Sociobeast examines the evolving and contradictory relationship between humanity, society and technology. In a collage of images
Labor right wins University of Canberra
By Nick Soudakoff
CANBERRA — After losing the student elections at the Australian National University a few weeks ago, Labor right won the positions of president, women's officer and environment officer,
Looking out: Thanks
By Brandon Astor Jones
"I know Glenys will fill you in on the news from her [and] from me ... I first heard you were in Reidsville from ... who left a message on my tape machine on Thursday morning." — Diane L. Post
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Full Pay and Benefits — A radio play by Colin Free. Peter Dudley and Currie are trade unionists who meet a horrible death when the van they are driving explodes, sabotaged by boss's goons in the midst of a bitter industrial dispute. Transported
IOC creates spectre of 'terrorism' at Olympics
By Stuart Russell
Aboriginal leaders have reacted angrily to remarks suggesting that they intend to "hijack" the Sydney Olympic Games. After visiting last month, the chairman of the International
PERTH — Green Left Weekly's ANTHONY BENBOW spoke with the state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, Bill Ethel; opposition ticket member Joe McDonald; and the Builders Labourers, Painters and Plasterers Union state
By Paul Howes
SYDNEY — Around 500 high school students from across the city walked out of school on October 22 to voice their opposition to the NSW government's "street safety legislation". The proposed legislation gives police the power to break
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There was a telling juxtaposition on Channel 9 on the evening of October 20. Sixty Minutes showed Pauline Hanson in a ferocious argument with some young Murris in Ipswich. The upshot was that she had one arrested for swearing. Straight
By Bruce Marlowe
On October 30, workers in the Department of Social Security, and the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs will be asked to vote for a campaign of lightning bans. The Howard government has rejected the
By Peter Boyle
Asian Australians Against Further Intimidation (AAAFI) was launched on October 11, 1996 to counter the racist views promoted by right-wing organisations, such as Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI) and Oxley MP Pauline
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