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  • Aboriginal groups campaign to defeat Olympic bid

    SYDNEY — The Aboriginal Legal Service has launched a campaign against Sydney's bid to host the Olympics in the year 2000 — despite claims by bid officials that Aboriginal people in NSW support the bid. Activists from

  • Human Rights Day Concert

    Human Rights Day ConcertADELAIDE — A Human Rights Day Concert will be held on Saturday, December 12, at the Railway Institute Oval. First held on International Human Rights Day in 1991, the "Make A Noise For Those With No

  • Australia aids police brutality in PNG

    The government's Australian International Development Assistance Bureau is training paramilitary police squads in Papua New Guinea for jungle warfare in the highlands and on Bougainville. These police squads have a penchant for

  • US activist to speak on Malcolm X

    S activist to speak on Malcolm XMalik Miah has been involved in the black movement in the US for more than 20 years. In January he will be a speaker at the Socialist Activists' Education Conference in Sydney. He will present

  • Groom's industrial relations package condemned

    Groom's industrial relations package condemned Dave Wright HOBART — The Liberals' Fightback! package and industrial relations strategy were condemned at a meeting here on October 20. Trades and Labour Council secretary Jim Bacon said some

  • Kennett's mini-budget hits workers, environment

    MELBOURNE — The Kennett Liberal-National government hit the public's pocket and the environment in an October 28 mini-budget. Victorian families will be up to $870 worse off on the average because of increased state taxes and

  • NSW resource package 'a sweetheart deal'

    NSW resource package 'a sweetheart deal' The NSW government's proposed natural resources package is a sweetheart deal between the government and large timber corporations which would privatise NSW forests without giving any real job security to

  • Thousands in reclaim the night marches

    Thousands in reclaim the night marches "This is the one night of the year when we are safe to wear what we like, go where we like and say what we like without fear of violence", said Joy McEntee form the Women's Action Group to a crowd of 100

  • Loose cannons

    Growth "A strategy for growth is what we need, a strategy for growth is what we are going to have." — British Prime Minister John Major, shortly after backing down on the Tory government's proposal to close down 31 of the country's coal mines

  • Loose cannons

    Bring back Pig-iron Bob "If export market intelligence for the region to our north, which I suspect already resides in the defence intelligence organisation, can be made available to Australian Industry on request, and, without going overboard,

  • WA Inc: more heads to roll?

    WA Inc: more heads to roll?PERTH — The WA Inc Royal Commission's first report, tabled on October 20, is a chronicle of corruption and deceit in high places. Three former premiers — Brian Burke, Peter Dowding and Ray

  • Vic public sector plans strike

    Vic public sector plans strike MELBOURNE — A meeting of workers covered by state awards decided on October 22 to organise a 24-hour strike against the Kennett government's plan to replace the state award system with an individual employment