BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Thirty-five people, including members of the Indigenous Student Network from New South Wales and ACT, Arbunna elder Kevin Buzzacott and elder Ray Jackson, attended the newly formed Indigenous Solidarity Action Collective
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BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Pressure is mounting on Bob Carr's state Labor government to back down on its controversial "Building the Future" plan, which will force the closure of several inner-city high schools.
A rally outside the Department of
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — Long-distance truck owner-drivers have blockaded major transport depots on Brisbane's southside, and have forced major companies to sign up to improvements in payments and conditions, according to Transport Workers Union
BY JAMES CRAFTI & JODY BETZEIN
MELBOURNE — Around 250 people participated in the "regular" Friday evening Nike superstore blockade on Swanston Street on May 11. The Nike superstore was successfully shut-down by protesters for the eighth week in a
A recurring issue at CHOGM has been the homophobic comments by some of its members. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe grabbed the world's attention on this issue when he described gay men and lesbians as "pigs and dogs" at the CHOGM in Durban in
In the weeks leading up to the M1 protests against corporate tyranny,
the big-business media waged psychological warfare against those who might
be thinking of attending, arguing that the protests were useless, violent,
undemocratic and
Enlightenment or control
A few years ago Clifford Stoll wrote The Cuckoo's Egg, an
account of his attempts to track down some network hackers taking advantage
of university computer networks to look at low security US military sites.
BY VIV MILEY
Twenty thousand people marched through Istanbul on May Day in support of left-wing hunger strikers in Turkey's jails. Twenty two prisoners have starved themselves to death since October, in a protest against authorities' decision to
BY NORM DIXON
More than 2000 people staged a peaceful protest through the streets of Honolulu on May 9 to coincide with annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank at the Hawaii Convention Centre.
Marchers' chants of "The ADB is B-A-D!" and
BY JOHN PASSANT
"We have a great objective — the light on the hill — which we aim to reach by working for the benefit of mankind." So spoke Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley half a century ago. Now Kim Beazley, celebrating the 100th anniversary
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