Sorry Day: no healing without justice
Comment by Margaret Allum
May 26 was the first anniversary of Sorry Day, a day to mark the
plight of the stolen generations: For most of this century (until the
early 1970s in some states) the
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Antarctic meltdown: can we stop it in time?
By Norm Dixon
You stumble out of bed in bare feet to make that pot of coffee to start the heart, you approach the fridge and — step in a huge puddle of chilly water. Somebody didn't shut the fridge
By Nick Southall and Justin Randell
WOLLONGONG — More than 100 people gathered on May 29 at Allen Street Park for the Port Kembla Loitering Festival. The festival was organised by Illawarra Community Action for Public Space (ICAPS) to protest
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a great time to be alive? It would be very difficult to be bored right now wouldn't it? At this precise moment of historical time, I mean. What with a bang up shootin' war courtesy of Bill Clinton and NATO, 50
By Sarah Cunningham
Ask most teenage women in Australia who they consider their idol and they would probably reply Kate Moss, Gwyneth Paltrow or even Sabrina, the teenage witch. My choice would be Dita Sari.
Dita Indah Sari, aged 26, has been a
Union protesters target Woolworths
SYDNEY — The Woolworths Metro store in George Street was picketed by around 100 people on May 27 in response to the sacking of 30 workers by Metro Shopfitting, a company engaged by Woolworths to do its
Indonesian President B.J. Habibie, in an interview with the May 24 Sydney Morning Herald, denied Indonesian army involvement with the terrorist militias in East Timor and demanded that Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer provide "evidence".
Solidarity with Indonesia goes international
By Chris Latham
Between May 21 and 23, protests actions were held in a number of countries in support of the struggle for democracy in Indonesia and independence for East Timor. On May 21, supporters
Self-determination for Kosova!
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By Zanny Begg
In Djadi-Dugarang, the newsletter of the Indigenous Social Justice Association, Ray Jackson tells the story of Belinda (not her real name), a male to female transgender. In late 1997, Belinda was arrested for drug possession and sent
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