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By Marina Cameron On November 9, supporters of a free East Timor will march in cities around Australia to commemorate the anniversary of the massacre by Indonesian troops of a peaceful demonstration in Dili, East Timor, on November 12, 1991.
By Michael Schafe WOLLONGONG — Students from Illawarra high schools walked out of class on October 25 to protest the government's cuts to education funding, Austudy, Abstudy and the dole. As students rallied in the Wollongong mall amphitheatre,
Rallies, marches and other activities in the last week of October marked the annual Reclaim the Night events protesting violence against women. From Canberra, Katrina Dean reports that around 350 women and male supporters gathered in Civic on October
Canadian auto strike and occupation show the way The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) forced General Motors to accept a favourable contract on October 22 after a three-week strike during which workers took over a plant in Oshawa, Ontario. "Like a
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Queensland Coalition government is lurching further into trouble following the resignation on October 29 of Kenneth Carruthers. Carruthers quit as chief of the Criminal Justice Commission probe into an alleged corrupt
By Norm Dixon The refugee crisis in eastern Zaire follows months of brutal oppression — largely unreported in the mainstream media — against the Banyarwanda and Banyamulenge ethnic groups by the Zaire dictatorship, in league with those
By Felicity Wade In the second in a series of articles on future directions for the environment movement, FELICITY WADE takes up some of the issues being discussed in the Wilderness Society about the way forward for the conservation movement. The
In the first of a three part series on the student movement in Australia since the 1970s, AFRODITY GIANNAKIS asked VAL EDWARDS about the history of the Australian Union of Students. Edwards was 1977 president of Kelvin Grove CAE Student Union (now
By Chris Martin SYDNEY — Aborigines fighting for the preservation of the historic "Day of Mourning" conference site are urging everyone concerned with justice for indigenous Australians to join their protest outside state parliament on November
and ain't i a woman?: Kick-arse feminism? On October 23, 300 people attended a public meeting at Sydney's Paddington Town Hall which revealed the varied, and often confused, nature of current feminist thinking. The panel included four

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