The Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The Senator says it looks ramshackle.Well Senator, it is a tentIt's asking white Australiato pay the bloody rent.
They told the bully boys in blueto pull it down in '72.But Aboriginal activistsjust resurrected it
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Pensioner excursion tickets
Thousands of senior citizens, pensioners, because they live in areas not serviced by government transport, i.e., trains, buses or ferries, don't have the benefit of the $1 pensioner excursion ticket. The 17-seat majority
World thug: an A-Z of US aggression
By Zanny Begg
Angola — 1975: civil war breaks out after Portugal is forced to withdraw. The US backs the right-wing Union for the Total Liberation of Angola in its counter-revolutionary war against the
By Robyn Marshall
Antibiotics transformed human health beyond recognition after World War II. No longer were children and adults dying of common bacterial diseases dreaded by our grandmothers — pneumonia, tuberculosis, polio, scarlet fever,
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — From April 24 the Mirimbiak Nations Aboriginal Corporation, Coast Action and the Surfrider Foundation will hold indigenous coastal workshops along Victoria's coastline. The one-day workshops are designed to bring
Passing of an Aboriginal rights activist
By Margaret Allum
Don McLeod has died in Perth, aged 91. Although non-Aboriginal, McLeod was a dedicated fighter for Aboriginal rights long before reconciliation became the word of the moment, espoused
US: it's money, not morals
By Zanny Begg
With grave insincerity, US President Bill Clinton informed the world on March 25 that NATO had a "moral imperative" to intervene in Serbia to "defuse a powder keg at the heart of Europe". Clinton assured
The corporations that are introducing genetically modified crops into the global ecosystem want you to think of genetic engineering as a well-understood science similar to laparascopic surgery. Indeed, the phrase "genetic engineering" gives the
Jailed PRD leader: 'We want to empower the people'
Since March 21, when the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD) relaunched itself as a political party that campaigns openly, rightist groups and political figures have campaigned for its banning.
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — When police in the city of Krasnodar in southern Russia searched a rucksack belonging to 19-year-old Gennady Nepshikuyev last November, they found a bomb. It was not a particularly sophisticated bomb, just a container
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