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Left on-line The Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (WA) now has a web page. See . Latest news on the trial of the Herri Batasuna leadership — The Spanish government is prosecuting the entire national executive of the legal
Meeting debates protection of NSW national parks By Chris Spindler SYDNEY — The Carr Labor government is taking NSW national parks down the commercialisation road via its recently drafted "Access Strategy Plan". Up to 300 people attended a
Reading in the darkBy Seamus DeanVintage, 1996. 233 pp. Review by Suneeta Peres da Costa This is a book of haunting and beautifully rendered childhood revelations. In their subtle evocation of a youth burdened by a terrible family secret, these
Kyoto conference Like Australia's recalcitrant failure to address the greenhouse gas emissions problem, financial support for the environmentally destructive Indonesian Government is one more example of the antipathy of the Federal Government
By Eva Cheng Asia's export growth plunged across the board last year, hitting also the so-called "tiger" economies. Advocates of the "Asian miracle" theory claimed the causes were short term, and played down any structural problems. Then, early in
Jack Stannard On November 1 we lost a great friend in Jack Stannard. I remember the time Jack sat at the table and announced, "If we are going to have a Canberra Program for Peace, we'd better have a program". Jack was like that. Well into his
Buena Vista Social ClubFeaturing Compay Segundo, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Ry CooderIntroducing Rubén GonzálezRubén GonzálezA Todo Cuba le GustaAfro-Cuban All StarsWorld
Voluntary student unionism push in NZ By Marina Carman In an attempt to weaken student opposition to the privatisation of higher education, sections of the New Zealand government are making a renewed push to legislate for voluntary student
Convicted for possessing a book Queensland's most dangerous book, The Book of Bud, has claimed its second victim. Steve Dimitriou, perennial Australian Marijuana Party candidate (he first stood as the AMP Senate candidate in South Australia in
By Alex Bainbridge HUNTER VALLEY — The Industrial Relations Commission decided on November 7 to terminate the enterprise bargaining period at the strike-bound Hunter Valley No. 1 mine and begin compulsory arbitration. Miners' union leader Mick

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