Around 400 people gathered in Adelaide's Maughan Church on March 3 to comment on the issues to be discussed at the National Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (NCAR) meeting in Melbourne on May 26-28. Hundreds of
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In response to Pauline Hanson's racist lies and bigotry, her vehement attacks on Aborigines and migrants and the launching of her One Nation Party, Resistance has stepped up its campaign against racism. It has decided that
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From 1788 until today, race relations in this nation have been marred by misunderstanding, fear, inordinate violence and dishonesty. The current hysteria surrounding the High Court's Wik judgment is based on false
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Hong Kong I find Marc Finnane's letter in GLW #273 odd. The orderly return to China of the Hong Kong territory, at the expiry of Britain's 99-year lease, is not remotely comparable with the chaotic and ignominious evacuation of the US forces
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JAKARTA — The streets here are filled with paraphernalia of the Indonesian elections on May 29: the yellow flags of the ruling Golkar party, green of the Islamic United Development Party (PPP) and the red symbol of
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Students protest take-over LISMORE — Six students occupied a balcony of the heavily fortified administration building at Southern Cross University overnight on May 15. The students and their supporters below were demanding that the
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Demonstrators clash with policeJAKARTA — On May 14, there were confrontations with the military and police in several main streets and neighbourhoods, including in Dewi Sartika, Otista, Matraman, Kemayoran and
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Packer in takeover bid for Green Left Weekly Of course, it's not true. But if he has his way, there won't be much else that he doesn't own. With most newspapers and television stations in Australia owned by two very rich and powerful men,
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm, and Saturday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne
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On November 28, 1996, young East Timorese in Australia set up the first organisation specifically to involve young Timorese in the struggle to free East Timor. Called the National Resistance of East Timorese Youth (RNJT), the group aims to fight for
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Will you make your mark?Will you make your mark? By Brandon Astor Jones "Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty." — Henry Ford Australians Against Executions
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What! Me worry?@column head = What! Me worry? Now there's something you wouldn't have credited. Here I was thinkin' that I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. All those years I spent hopin' the good times would visit us again,
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A federal government green paper, "Sustainable Energy Policy for Australia", was released late last year with not much fanfare. It was supposedly intended as the first step towards developing an energy policy with a 25-year
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The recent round of public meetings by racist MP Pauline Hanson was met by a strong protests despite Prime Minister John Howard's call for people not to protest at Hanson's meetings so as not to make her a martyr for her cause.
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Is 'human nature' up to it?If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, "human nature" is often the final defensive position of apologists for capitalism. Any sort of truly egalitarian society is impossible, it
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John Howard's 'feminist'John Howard's 'feminist' The Sydney Morning Herald on April 26 ran a full-page article, titled "Right on, sister", about Pru Goward — "feminist" (printed in block letters under her name) and new head of the
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Queensland teachers' dispute escalatesBRISBANE — The Queensland Teachers' Union's rolling strike campaign is set to continue into a third round after strong votes by mass meetings of teachers in the week beginning May 12.
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Meetings of Community and Public Sector Union on May 16 voted in favour of a national executive proposal to conduct statewide half-day rolling stoppages in the next few weeks and hold a day of national support on May 23, as part of the campaign for
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ADELAIDE — On May 16, five National Action thugs attacked a Resistance anti-racism stall at Central Markets in the city. Emma Webb was the only person staffing the stall at the time because another member had gone to collect
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Abstudy, university funding slashedThe news for students from the federal budget is again bad. The major new attack is a $40 million cut to Abstudy, the allowance paid to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. This
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PERTH — The WA union movement's campaign against the "third wave" moved up another gear over the last two weeks with coordinated industrial action across public and private sectors. The "third wave" bill — designed to make
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Pledge to block Hindmarsh Island bridgeThe passing of the Commonwealth Hindmarsh Island Bill by federal parliament on May 12 will not end the controversy over the building of the Hindmarsh Island bridge. The Kumarangk
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NEWCASTLE — Pauline Hanson's visit here on May 30 is attracting a lot of attention. A call for a peaceful protest demonstration outside Hanson's public meeting was issued on May 17 by the Newcastle Anti-Racist Alliance
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Aid objectives "The [Australian] Government reached a view that UNIDO's [United Nations Industrial Development Organisation] programs were not consistent with Australian aid objectives and not enough Australian firms benefited from aid
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"The announcement last week by Queensland Liberal Party president Steve Wilson that his party would direct preferences to Pauline Hanson at the next election reveals the connection between them. Hanson is the Liberals' stalking horse:
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No fees campaign grows at Melbourne UniversityMELBOURNE— Following the successful student day of action on May 8 and the militant occupation of Melbourne University administration, students there have
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Thousands of jobs will be lost as a result of the federal budget. The public service will be savaged, with 16,500 jobs cut. Last year 11,200 public servants jobs were cut. This should put to rest claims by media
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Picket of Thai consulate SYDNEY — On May 15, 40 Burmese pro-democracy activists and supporters protested outside the Thai consulate against Thai Prime Minister General Chavalit Yong Chai Yud's visit to Burma the next day. Chavalit aims to
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Public housing loses tens of millionsA cut of $50 million from the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement adds up to a real cut of almost $140 million, Sally Bryant, director of the Community Housing Federation of Australia,
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Rally slams federal budgetBRISBANE — Several hundred unionists, students and others rallied in King George Square here on May 13 to protest against the Howard-Costello budget. The protesters then marched through city
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WA forest camp set upGIBLETT FOREST — Environmentalists have set up a protest/witness camp here in an effort to halt logging. Giblett state forest near Pemberton forms the heart of one of the most beautiful old-growth forest
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Queensland government land grab The Natural Resources Legislation Bill, tabled in the Queensland parliament on May 6, is a huge setback for the reconciliation process, according to Cam Walker, spokesperson of Friends of the Earth. This
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NEWCASTLE — Thousands of BHP steelworkers around the country went on strike for the second time on May 15, to answer the Newcastle plant's manager, Bob Kirkby's, challenge that one 24-hour strike would not change BHP's mind.
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Victorian workers demonstrate over industrial safetyMELBOURNE — The front page of the Age on May 13 reported on a life-threatening industrial accident in which a young construction worker was buried up to his mouth in heavy
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Savings rebate: a bigger swindle than first appears @box text intro = The Howard government has been badly embarrassed by the fiasco of its tax rebate for savings plan, announced in the budget on May 13. For somewhat different reasons, the ALP
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MOSCOW — If you're going to Ukraine this summer, be sure to take a change of lead underwear. To judge by recent developments in the country's nuclear power industry, you might well need it. Not only have negotiations with
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MANILA — Progressive trade unions commemorated international labour day on May 1 with protests across the Philippines against the ill effects of globalisation. While the pro-government Trade Union Congress of the Philippines
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BRITISH COLUMBIA — The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has nominated Shell Oil to receive the minister's environmental award for 1997. Shell was one of four oil companies that WWF nominated because the companies gave up their marine exploration rights in
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On May 15, some 1000 protesters marched from the city centre of Okinawa to the Kadena Air Base to demand the US reduce its military bases in Okinawa. About 75% of US bases in Japan are in Okinawa. The Okinawans' main demand is to
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Sinn Féin welcomes election On May 15, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams welcomed the end to months of speculation about the general election in the 26 counties, saying "Sinn Féin looks forward to contesting this election and
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Victorious rebels condemn western interferenceOn May 17, less than 24 hours after Zaire dictator Mobutu Sese Seko fled the capital leaving his newly appointed parliamentary speaker in charge, the young fighters of the
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Internationalism highlighted at Labor Notes ConferenceDETROIT — Worker fights back against the neo-liberal capitalist offensive were a major theme at the ninth biennial conference of Labor Notes, held over the
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Turkish troops raid Kurdistan The Turkish foreign ministry admitted that Turkish troops, backed by tanks and artillery, crossed the border into northern Iraq — supposedly a US-backed "safe haven" for Kurds — on May 14. According to Turkish
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Cold War defence contracts have been replaced by Crime War prison contracts. The US needs an enemy, and with the worldwide fall of communism we have turned our anger and aggression inward, declaring war on our own people. With 1.6
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Through the south of Lebanon, you can see large sprawling buildings known as the "camps" which house Palestinian refugees. These areas have been bombed by the Israelis, Syrians and Lebanese, but they remain a focus for resistance
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MOSCOW — When Russians these days hear promises of "reform", they often grit their teeth and brace themselves for something thoroughly unpleasant. One of the latest such shocks befell residents of St Petersburg in the last
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As the Indonesian elections draw near, army units, police and security forces are out in force to intimidate pro-democracy activists campaigning for free and fair elections, democratisation and an end to military rule. In East Timor,
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Ken Saro-Wiwa Ken Saro-Wiwa "We all stand before history. I am a man of peace, of ideas. I have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief and from which I cannot be blackmailed or
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The PNG government is continuing its attacks on the country's activist and non-government organisations in retaliation for their role in the defeat of the Chan government's plan to deploy apartheid-linked mercenaries on
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Given a chance, it's a patient on ER I'd be. The opportunity to be wheeled from out of the Chicago cold into the healing hands of Drs Greene, Ross, Benton or Carter is my idea of a good day out. With Nurse Hathaway in charge, I'd
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Wild BlueEileen IversGreen Linnet through Festival Review by Morgan O'Keefe In the fanatical circles of Irish traditional music buffs "innovation" is a very controversial topic. Fans of every style of "roots" music are fiercely protective of its
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The Governor's FamilyBy Beatrix ChristianDirected by Neil ArmfieldCast: Aaron Blabey, Arthur Dignam, David Field, Gillian Jones, Jacqueline McKenzie, Urshula YovichCompany B, at the Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, until June 15. Review by Allen
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Review by Eva Cheng Buddha Bless AmericaStarring Lin Cheng-sheng, Chiang Shu-na, Yang Tzong-hsien and Lee Hsin-tzongDirected and written by Wu Nien-jenSydney Film Festival, June 6-20, State Theatre and Pitt Centre Buddha Bless America,
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Socialism and the struggle for the rights of lesbians and gay menNew Course, 1997. 47 pp., $5. Review by Rebecca Meckelburg The release of this pamphlet, containing a resolution from the 1995 national conference of the Democratic Socialist
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Contemporary dance highlights escapist myth By Fiona Carnes and Kevin L'Huillier HOBART — Tasmania was treated to a contemporary dance double bill between May 7 and 10 in the Peacock Theatre. Looking for Flowers opened the show by
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A short story by Craig Cormick I had just reached the outskirts of Canberra when I saw the hitchhiker. Standing by the side of the Federal Highway. Thumb out. I had a quick look at him, ready to look away again. But he held my interest. He