By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Veteran state Labor MP Jim Fouras has warned the ALP it will deprive Aboriginal people of a "fundamental right to land" if it proceeds with its native title legislation, now before state parliament. Fouras quoted legal
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Billy Craigie: Gomilaroy warrior
By Lara Pullin
Billy Craigie grew up in Gomilaroy country near Moree. He was a Gomilaroy warrior, and last month was laid to rest in a traditional burial. He died of a heart attack at the place he helped to build
Vote with your feet against racism
The following call by Resistance for a further nationwide secondary student protest against racism on the Wednesday before the federal election was strongly supported at many of the August 28 rallies. We are told
Comment by Dave Riley
The recent secondary student walkouts have promoted a wave of discussion on the topic of racism — what it is and how to fight it. But the new rise in the confidence of the anti-racist forces, spawned by the student actions,
By James Vassilopoulos
What the hell is going on! That sums up the feelings of many Sydneysiders as, for the second time within a month, they have been warned to boil their water, following the detection of the parasites giardia and
By Jim Green
The federal environment minister, Senator Robert Hill, has rejected a public environment report into the milling of uranium ore from the Jabiluka mine in the Northern Territory. The proposal from Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) was
By Sue Boland
The Howard government seems to have realised that it can't credibly argue that its tax package is one for "battlers" or that it's fair to everybody. Instead, it now asserts that a GST which includes food is "good for the nation". This
By Barry Sheppard
The "special period" that opened in 1989 as the Soviet bloc collapsed has been a major challenge to the Cuban Revolution. Before the 1959 overthrow of the Batista dictatorship, the United States was Cuba's main trading partner.
Democratic Socialist candidates
ACT: Canberra — Nikki Ulasowski, Fraser — Sue Bull
NSW: Cunningham — Margaret Perrott, Grayndler — Michael Karadjis, Newcastle — Geoff Payne, Page — Kathy O'Driscoll, Paterson — Alison Dellit, Reid
By Peter Boyle
"At a time when the major political parties are shifting sharply to the right, and with the far-right One Nation party threatening to capture a swag of seats in the Senate, it is time to turn to the left", said John Percy, the
By John Pilger
It doesn't matter whether or not President Clinton fired his missiles in order to distract attention from his troubles with Monica Lewinsky. He would have done it, anyway. We have been through this many times before, with the lies
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Fair go!
All right, maybe some of you will be a little worse off with a GST. So what? Stop being so selfish; lie back and think of Australia. A GST will be good for the country. You can take our word for that, because we own
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