Four Penan tribes people were arrested and tortured by the Malaysia police field force on March 13, when they were trying to negotiate with the logging company, Samling, near their village at Long Kerong. One, Jangin Jalong, was beaten at the
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Students win reinstatement of council
By Rachel Wilson
SYDNEY — It seems university vice-chancellors country-wide have learned a valuable lesson from the national day of action on March 26. The effectiveness of both the rally and the
Solidarity forums for Bougainville
By Amanda Lawrence
CANBERRA — On April 14, around 45 people attended a public meeting and film showing organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement. The film graphically detailed the environmental
By Sujatha Fernandes
On March 31, Chandrashekar Prasad and Shyam Narain Yadav were shot dead in the north Bihar district town of Siwan while addressing street corner meetings to build a strike called by the Communist Party of India Marxist
UWA to remain affiliated to NUS
By Justin Randell
PERTH — A referendum at the University of Western Australia April 14-16 has resulted in the UWA Student Guild remaining affiliated to the National Union of Students. The resounding"yes"
The Fertility of Objects and other playsBy Raimondo CorteseGriffin Theatre Company, The Stables, Sydney Review by Brendan Doyle
"A compelling trilogy about the dangers of seduction." Sounds promising, doesn't it? But what we get from Raimondo
Kennett to privatise public transport
By Tully Bates
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government has announced plans to sell off the entire state public transport system by the end of next year, creating six companies — two rail, two tram, a
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Want to make a pile in post-Soviet Russia? Now that privatisation is mostly complete, the readiest ways of having big roubles drop into your lap belong to the past. But riches can still be yours. The Russian
Clyde refinery flare worries residents
By Norm Dixon
@box intro = SYDNEY — Residents living near the Shell oil refinery in Clyde, in Sydney's west, are sceptical about management claims that a much larger, brighter and noxious than usual
Chilean band a hit in Brisbane
By Lynda Hansen
@box text intro = BRISBANE — Chilean band Illapu transformed the staid Performing Arts Complex Concert Hall into a Chilean carnival on April 13.
The seven-piece ensemble left Chile,
Swept from the scene in 1991 along with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Communist League of Youth (in its Russian abbreviation, Komsomol), was later reconstituted as a political youth group aligned with the Communist Party of the Russian
The following is an abridged version of a statement circulated in the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU) concerning the recent agreement between the Melbourne University administration and the uni's NTEU branch, which links a 12%
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