By Tony Iltis
HOBART — Hobart Town Hall was filled to capacity for a meeting organised by the Denison branch of the Tasmanian Greens to oppose the proposed Oceanport retail and residential development at Princes Wharf. The proposed six-story
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'A small group of loafers'
By James Vassilopoulos
In the year to September 30, 1997, one of the directors of Lang Corporation, the parent company of Patrick Stevedores, was paid a salary of more than $800,000. This director achieved world's best
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Voice of Guatemala — An interview with Josi Solis Jordan who has been charged by the US government with "conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States" and faces 25 years in a federal prison if convicted. At
Punishing the victims
On May 1, doctors in the public hospitals and one of the two private abortion clinics in WA stopped performing abortions.
These doctors do not oppose women's right to choose abortion. On the contrary, their vocal support
On May 3, a 21-year-old man became the 26th person to die while in a NSW prison since July 1, 1997. The apparent suicide by hanging at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre was the fourth prison death in NSW in the last three weeks. "Members
JOHN PILGER's documentary Apartheid Did Not Die was shown on British and South African television on April 21. On April 17, the Johannesburg-based Weekly Mail & Guardian published an article in which Pilger described his first visit to South
Labor-Democrats debate a non-event
By Ruth Ratcliffe
BRISBANE — On May 5, the University of Queensland ALP and Australian Democrats clubs presented a debate about "Labour, Unionism and Change: Perspectives on Industrial Relations Reform —
Indonesia in revolt
By James Balowski
Just six months ago, publicly burning a photograph of the Indonesian dictator Suharto would have meant tempting arrest and a lengthy jail sentence. But over the last week, such scenes have occurred almost
An apt ALP hero for the times
Nice TryBy Shane MaloneyText Publishing, 1998. 312 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Murray Whelan, senior adviser to the Labor minister for water supply and the arts, is in more trouble than Mandrake again.
The Peace Arch Concerts and Freedom Train and the Welsh Transatlantic ConcertsPaul RobesonFolk Era RecordsSend US$20 each to 705 South Washington St, Naperville, Illinois 60540, USA Reviewed by Barry Healy
In 1925, a young black man in New York
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