Issue 159

By Wendy Robertson Preparations for the October 15 National Day of Action against Australian government and business involvement in the Timor Gap Treaty are under way in all states. The National Day of Action is jointly organised by

By Jorge Jorquera On September 7, some 100 students gathered at Wollongong DEET offices and marched to the court house. The same day more than 500 students rallied at the Australian National University. Students were protesting against

A day to be believed By Linda Kaucher ADELAIDE — Giving domestic violence victims a chance to talk and be believed was the main purpose of a meeting called by the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) on September 4. A

By Pip Hunter Members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the Australian Maritime Officers' Union walked off the job on September 8 in protest at the federal government's moves to liquidate the Australian National Line (ANL). The

Hardly a day goes by without some Labor politician calling for an end to Labor's "three mines" uranium policy. The representative body for the Top End Aboriginal communities, the Northern Land Council, has also thrown its weight behind these calls.

By Chris Spindler ADELAIDE— The South Australian budget, brought down on August 25, has come under increasing criticism from unions, the community health sector, welfare organisations and political groups. As a result of the

Victorian ambulance service at risk By Katherine Heneghan MELBOURNE — Cutbacks to Victoria's ambulance service in the last budget have led to the formation of the community group, More Ambulance Services in Victoria. MASIV

Portland Aborigines appeal The Kerrupjmara people of far western Victoria are considering re-establishing a tent embassy in Portland, eight weeks after an earlier tent embassy was ended. The embassy was set up in Portland's main

Petition to revoke Timor Gap Treaty A petition campaign which calls on the federal parliament to revoke the Timor Gap oil exploration treaty is being conducted at university tertiary campuses across Australia. The national launch of the

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Plans for a massive oil terminal near the Ukrainian port of Odessa are now likely to be drastically scaled down or abandoned entirely, reports in late August indicated. The project has been the focus of a

By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — A security police officer accused of murder and being at the centre of "Third Force" destabilisation operations against trade unions has been allowed to flee South Africa to New Zealand. The details appeared

Censorship and repression in Uruguay By Jorge Jorquera A demonstration in Montevideo in support of Basque nationalists seeking refuge in Uruguay was brutally broken up by police on August 24. A number of people were killed, some

By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — Mass-based RDP Councils are being established throughout South Africa to ensure that the new government's Reconstruction and Development Program is "people-driven", Cheryl Carolus, the ANC's RDP coordinator,

In the Back Streets of Paradise Alistair Hulett & The Hooligans Red Rattler Reviewed by Chris Martin Alistair Hulett, singer, songwriter, activist and entertainer, has given the Sydney left a lot of great times over the

Although you have disappeared, you live in our heart By Eliseo Balcazar Dear mother and father Dear sisters and brother Dear companion and friends Where are you? Where ... are you? December, January June August

Asian Theatre Festival SYDNEY — The second Sydney Asian Theatre Festival continues at the Belvoir Street Theatre until October 1. Five unusual and intriguing presentations are offered. The Return, by Ta Duy Binh, is a poetic

Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-1960 By Christopher Simpson Oxford University Press, 1994. 204 pp. Reviewed by Brian Martin Before reading this book, I thought that psychological