By Gilberto Firmat
ATLANTA — As the United States' kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez enters its fifth month, US attorney-general Janet Reno continues to steer her department on a course that openly defies the January court ruling, which she endorsed,
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New crimes compensation legislation falls short
By Sarah Lantz and Melanie Heenan
In Victoria in July 1997, the Liberal state government abolished crimes compensation awards for pain and suffering. For the majority of victim/survivors of sexual
By Farooq Sulehria
LAHORE — The Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) organised a demonstration outside the US consulate here on March 22 to protest against the visit to Pakistan of US President Bill Clinton. Three days earlier, Pakistan's military
Bougainville: doubts over autonomy, referendum agreement
By Mark Abberton
"The Bougainville Revolutionary Army's (BRA) patience is fast running out with the Papua New Guinea government's crippling indecisiveness and inability to understand a
By John Gauci
SYDNEY — Over the past two weeks, Rupert Murdoch's Daily Telegraph has attacked teachers and their union, the NSW Teachers Federation (NSWTF), in a series of sensationalist front-page stories that contain little more than gross
Indonesia: has democracy been won?
Comment by Max Lane
Socialists and progressive people face an important challenge in the coming few years to match the "solidarity" the Australian ruling class is extending to the new government of Indonesia and
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Students march to defend education
Fifteen hundred students marched on March 22 in a national day of action called by the National Union of Students (NUS). The students called for an end to cuts in staff, a livable income for students, the
Somali refugees to be deported
By Sean Healy
Three Somali asylum seekers announced on March 25 that they will ask the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs to deport them because they are so exhausted by the three years they have
Students condemn education cuts
By Catherine Smithand Arun Pradhan
MELBOURNE — "Burn, Kemp, burn" was the chant taken up by hundreds of students outside Kay House at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) as a metre-wide effigy of
By Molly Wishart
SYDNEY — About 700 hundred people attended a rally at Menai, near the Lucas Heights reactor plant in southern Sydney, on March 26. The main aim of the rally was to build support for the demand, initiated by the Sutherland Shire
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The History of Australian Feminism: Getting EqualBy Marilyn LakeAllen & Unwin$29.95 Review by Rachel Evans
In her introduction, Marilyn Lake states that the aim of The History of Australian Feminism: Getting Equal is to correct common
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