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'Equality': Hanson's cover for racism By Peter Boyle "We must get across the message", said Pauline Hanson at her May 30 meeting in Newcastle, "that to call for all Australians to be treated equally is not racism, to say that to be
50,000 march to back locked-out newspaper workers By Barry Sheppard With the support of the national union federation, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), union activists from around the
By Jill Hickson SYDNEY — Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) is planning a national activists' conference on August 22-24 to discuss strategies to build solidarity with the struggles for democracy in Indonesia and for
Green left Weekly interviewed three Sydney activists about some of the issues facing lesbians and gay men today. STEVEN CARROLL, a Muthi Muthi from south western NSW, is studying politics at the University of Sydney. CASSANDRA POMROY, originally from
James Vassilopoulos The Democrats and the Liberals have struck a deal guaranteeing the passage of the Liberals' Aged Care Reform Bill through the Senate. The Australian Nursing Federation slammed the Democrats for caving in to the federal
Brothers to Us: The Story of a Remarkable Family's Fight Against ApartheidBy Kristin Williamson (with a foreword by John Pilger)Viking, 1997. 344 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Rugby, some claim, is the game played in Heaven, but for
Huxley: Evolution's High PriestBy Adrian DesmondMichael Joseph, 1997. 370 pp., $40 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon Thomas Huxley was "Darwin's Bulldog", a brilliant scientist and fearless propagandist for Darwin's theory of evolution. Whereas
WA: the most homophobic state By Corinne Glenn PERTH — Since the repeal of Tasmania's anti-gay legislation on May 1, WA has the less than honourable title of being the most homophobic state in Australia. The age of consent in WA for gay
By Sean Healy Organisers of the 26th Resistance national conference have scheduled a special tribute to murdered East Timorese resistance leader David Alex as part of the conference. Alex, the second in command of the Falintil guerillas, was
On June 18, the Brazilian government connived with illegal timber traders in Brazil by voting against the inclusion of the hardwood mahogany in a list of endangered species at a meeting of the Convention on Endangered Species being held in Harare,

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