Police step up surveillance of young people
By Justine Kamprad
CANBERRA — Over the last week there has been a substantially increased police presence in the city area, particularly in Garema Place, a paved area with seats and a small
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Critical Mass
HOBART — Critical Mass is an "organised coincidence" whereby, on one evening each month, the usual fossil fuel-driven peak hour traffic gives way to a slow moving, singing, chanting convoy of cyclists, skaters and walkers.
Thousands of trade unionists in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique prevented trucks entering or leaving Swaziland on March 3, in solidarity with the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions.
1997 Queer Film and Video Festival
By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — The seventh annual Queer Film and Video Festival, running March 14-31, will showcase nearly 100 feature films, documentaries and shorts from Australia, Europe, Asia and North
Closure of landmark Aboriginal Legal Service
By Jennifer Thompson
SYDNEY — The Aboriginal Legal Service has been shut down after 27 years of challenging the white-dominated legal system. Late last month, the Supreme Court refused an
Bosses prepare to slash conditions
By James Vassilopoulos
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is coordinating a campaign to slash working conditions. It is preparing a test case to be put to the Australian Industrial Relations
Young people's rights: this system can't deliver
By Marina Cameron
Recent media coverage of the plight of today's youth has been so inadequate in identifying solutions that one is left feeling that they were unable to do anything but
The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American LeftBy Tim WohlforthHumanities Press, 1994. 330 pp., $26. Review by Adam Hanieh
Tim Wohlforth was a key figure in the US Trotskyist movement from the McCarthy years until the '70s. This highly
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"Ministers [should] desist from promoting Dorothy Dixers that appear designed to make the person asking him look like a total dill." — Leaked federal Coalition memo on managing parliamentary question time.
By Max Watts
On March 5, ABC's Lateline interviewed Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer, OBE, British army retired. Colonel Spicer was not quite shown, because he insisted on remaining an anonymous shadow. Spicer is now the chief executive officer of
Ned KellyBy Douglas StewartAdapted by Pam LevershaTheatreworks, St Kilda, until March 22 Review by Graham Moyes
"If Ned Kelly was king/ he'd make those robbers swing/ he'd bring them down ..." Thus lamented Midnight Oil circa '81, adding another
Education campaign at ANU
By Martin Iltis
CANBERRA — An education forum organised by the Australian National University Students Association affirmed the need to have both ANU and cross-campus education collectives build actions such as
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