Indonesians commemorate killings
BANDAR LAMPUNG — Students from campuses around the city rallied and marched on September 28 to mark the first anniversary of the murder of two students, Yusuf Rizal and Saidatul Fitria, by the military during a
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BY SUE BOLAND
"Shareholder activism" is promoted by many environment and human rights groups and trade unions as a new method for achieving social and environmental change. It involves organising an alliance of shareholders to ask questions and
BY MAD COW
Imagine for a moment being a cow with many years of loyal service, owned by a tough but fair owner. Then the farmer unfortunately passes away. The ownership of the farm is then passed over to the son who looks at the farm and says, "We
BY SUE BULL
Federal education minister David Kemp unveiled his new funding scheme for private schools on September 28, a scheme which will give millions of extra dollars to elite education even as public education suffers.
Labor opposition
BY SIMON BUTLER
In an article in Green Left Weekly #418, I criticised Aboriginal commentator Noel Pearson's attacks (expressed in his August 13 Chifley memorial lecture) on "progressive" ideas about welfare provision for Aboriginal people. A few
Green Left Weekly is having a break from publication next week. The next issue of the paper, #423, will be dated October 25. Don't miss it!
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — It was pressure from within his own party, rather than the stated logistical difficulties, which forced Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks to cancel a planned barbecue to thank police officers for their efforts
BY GEOFF FRANCIS
HOBART — There's nothing new about cuts to health care and hospital closures in Tasmania — successive governments have been at it for at least a decade. What is different about Labor Premier Jim Bacon's latest planned closure
So advanced is Cuba's national health system, in spite of the strictures of poverty and a US economic embargo, that a child born there will live a longer healthy life than a poor child born in the world's richest country. Even a nation as wealthy as
The rise to power in Serbia of Vojislav Kostunica may have somewhat ironic effects on the region.
Western governments were aiming for a "palace coup" against President Slobodan Milosevic so as to keep intact much of the regime, which represents the
BY BILL NEVINS
SANTA FE, New Mexico — "An Indian President!", shouted Robert Mirabal, fist clenched, buckskin and long black hair flying. "That's just one of my crazy, crazy ideas. But why not, people?".
The Taos Pueblo native is leading his
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