WA abortion access one year on
By Sarah Stephen
PERTH — On May 26 one year ago, the Criminal Code Amendment (Abortion) Act took effect in Western Australia. It ended six months of campaigning by the abortion rights movement to change WA laws
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The money or the box!
SYDNEY — University of NSW students and staff, incensed at the vice-chancellor's decision to spend nearly $500,000 on a corporate box at the Olympic Games at the same time as crying poor, protested outside the
5000 'reclaim our forests'
By Marcel Cameron
PERTH — Five thousand people streamed into the Perth Entertainment Centre on May 30 to attend a "Reclaim our Forests" public meeting called by the Western Australian Forest Alliance (WAFA). The
The following is abridged from a statement issued by the independent trade union federation NEZAVISNOST in Belgrade on April 29 to mark May Day, May 1. During the Bosnia war, Nezavisnost, which claims 300,000 members in Serbia, joined with other
By Susan Price
MELBOURNE — Community radio 3CR is Victoria's truly uncensored voice.
Programs at 3CR give a public voice to progressive organisations and communities
which are excluded or marginalised by the establishment
By Norm Dixon
Whatever direction NATO's attack on former Yugoslavia takes in coming weeks — either a ground war or a deal that ends the bombing — there is one group of people who cannot lose — United States capitalists. On May 20, the US
Rally for Burma
CANBERRA — Eighty protesters demonstrated outside the Burmese embassy on May 27, the ninth anniversary of the 1990 parliamentary election in Burma. The victory of the National League for Democracy in that election was rejected
On May 28, about 400 members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) at East Swanson Dock terminal met for eight hours and discussed the enterprise bargaining offer by P&O Ports, which is designed to match the changes implemented by Patrick
Environmentalists slam GST package
By Jim Green
Environmental groups are outraged by the government and Australian Democrats' goods and services tax (GST) package. A May 30 joint statement of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Friends
ATSIC blames One Nation for KKK in Australia
By Margaret Allum
On June 2, ATSIC chairperson Gatjil Djerrkura condemned One Nation for contributing to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Australia. One Nation national director David Ettridge
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