JOHN HOLMES, emeritus professor of geography at the University of Queensland, spoke to Green Left Weekly's GRAHAM MATTHEWS about the Howard plan and its likely repercussions for Aborigines. Question: Could you identify the extent to which native
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Doing Time for Patsy ClineStarring Matt Day, Miranda Otto and Richard RoxburghWritten, directed and produced, with John Winter, by Chris KennedyOpening nationally in Dendy cinemas on September 25 Preview by Jennifer Thompson
This film opens, and
Victory at RMIT
By Alison Dellit and Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — In a significant victory for the campaign against fees for undergraduates, RMIT students and staff are to vote in the first "referendum" on fees ever held. The concession
Are unions ditching enterprise bargaining?
James Vassilopoulos
If you believe media reports of the September 1-5 ACTU congress, unions are abandoning enterprise bargaining and are moving towards industry-wide bargaining. This,
The noose tightens around Palestine
By Adam Hanieh
RAMALLAH — On September 4, three bombs exploded within seconds of each other in the busy shopping area of Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem. The bombing happened a little over one month
Dangerous LiasiansDownstairs Theatre, Belvoir StreetSeptember 18-20 and 25-27Bookings 9699 3444 Review by Suneeta Peres da Costa
A cabaret as anti-racist polemic? The work of the ensemble in Dangerous Liasians, performed as part of the fifth
Hinchinbrook protesters face vigilante threats
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties has called for a police investigation into alleged threats against environmentalists protesting against the Port
Activists block Eastern Distributor
By Kerry Nettle
SYDNEY — Greens councillor Tom McLoughlin from Waverley Council was among eight protesters arrested on September 9 for blockading the felling of trees on the Eastern Distributor route.
Feminists discuss attacks on women
SYDNEY — A public meeting about the impact on women of the Howard government's funding cuts was organised by the International Women's Day collective on September 10. Speakers were Peggy Trompf from the
Asian activists address secondary students
By Kerryn Williams
CANBERRA — Touring activists Edwin Gozal from the Indonesian People's Democratic Party (PRD) and East Timorese writer Naldo Rai addressed a packed lunchtime forum at
Cuba: hotel bombing kills Italian visitor
Italian businessperson Fabio di Celmo was killed on September 4 when a bomb exploded in Havana's exclusive Copacabana hotel. Two other bombs which exploded at the same time at the Triton and
NY police torture immigrant
By Barry Sheppard
In the early morning hours of August 10, a Haitian immigrant in New York, Abner Louima, was outside a nightclub in a largely black and immigrant section of Brooklyn after a party. As the
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