By Barry Healy
The Center for Voting and Democracy, an organisation in the United States that focuses on voter participation and fair representation, has released a report on elections to the House of Representatives titled "Monopoly Politics".
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Roxstop: leave it in the ground
It is more than 10 years since the first blockade at the Roxby Downs uranium mine in South Australia. The demand of those protesters was — "Leave it in the ground". A decade later, mining company WMC is planning
Government allows US ballistic missile testing
The Australian government has agreed to cooperate with the US government in "Project Dundee" — ground to air Terrier missile tests off the coast of Western Australia. "These tests could threaten
Boycott Reflex copy paper
By Trevor Coon
Amcor Ltd (Australian Paper) is the largest domestic user of woodchips in Australia. Its signature brands, Reflex and Copyright, consist of virgin eucalypt fibres. The overwhelming majority of this
By Jim McIlroy
BLACKWATER Striking Curragh coal miners remain defiant despite attempts by the company, ARCO, to break their picket line and intimidate workers. The strike has entered its 15th week, as ARCO steps up its pressure on the miners to
The Full MontyDirected by Peter CattaneoWith Robert Carlyle and Mark AddyScreening at the Melbourne International Film Festival Review by Vannessa Hearman
The Full Monty is a film about the human impact of privatisation and welfare cuts in the
By Phil Hudson
MELBOURNE — In April, several thousand people attended a public event here to support the East Timorese asylum seekers. Following an excellent rock concert in the Treasury Gardens and an enthusiastic march through the city, a
By Helen Cunningham
MELBOURNE — The Centre for Contemporary Photography's (CCP) exhibition of documentary portraits traces the pain and dispossession of many groups in the world today. It is on display until August 23 and will tour Victoria
By Ana Kailis and Paul Howes
HAVANA — At the 14th World Festival of Youth and Students from July 28 to August 5, 12,335 delegates representing 2000 organisations from 132 nations gathered to discuss their experiences in struggle against
By James Vassilopoulos
On August 13, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) recommended to the Hunter Valley miners to continue negotiations and not resume their strike, following a recommendation by Justice Alan Boulton of
Correction
In our previous issue, an article on a University of Tasmania rally against exam changes reported that a motion by Resistance members calling on the SRC to organise a boycott of exams was "unsuccessful". In fact, the motion was
By Kate Davison and Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology council chambers were occupied by angry students on August 12 when the council, which is dominated by representatives of big business, voted narrowly in
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