By Shannon Ewart
In 1987 Jacqui Payne, a lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Brisbane, presented a paper to the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, which stated in part that her Aboriginal clients
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By Zanny Begg
"I have been a big fan of EYA since its beginning. Young people have enormous potential to influence the world ... You speak the truth from the most powerful position — it's your future at stake. I hope you will participate in
ANU evicts residents from historic home
By Nadine Behan
Students living at Old Lennox House, which has been low cost accommodation on the Australian National University campus for over 30 years, were given seven days, notice to vacate
Tony Benn, the prominent British Labour Party MP, was first elected in 1950. He has been and remains a passionate advocate of socialist ideas. In London, he spoke with Green Left Weekly's Frank Noakes and Catherine Brown about British politics
By Norm Dixon
In a significant vote that has gone largely unreported by the Australian media, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva has called on the Papua New Guinea government to end the economic blockade of
Broad Casting
Saffire — The Uppity Blues Women
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Reviewed by Norm Dixon
With the Uppity Blues Women's third album, Broadcasting, they again strike a blow against male
South African solidarity with Cuba
By Norm Dixon
It is time for the liberation movements in South Africa to repay the debt they owe to Cuba by organising solidarity with that island. This is the message of the solidarity group, Friends of
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — For people who follow events in Latin America as well as Russia, there was something strangely familiar about President Yeltsin's March 20 declaration of "special powers".
Last April a nearly identical formula
NEFA calls on West to resign
SYDNEY — The North East Forest Alliance has call for the resignation of Garry West, state minister for Conservation and Land Management, in the light of two recent government reports seriously criticising the
By Frank Noakes
FRANKFURT — Anna Seifert, a Green member of the Frankfurt city parliament, talked to Green Left Weekly about the local elections in the state of Hesse on March 7. Smaller parties of the left and right achieved swings,