Royal commission a failure, meeting told By Rod Pitty SYDNEY — The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was a failure, according to several speakers at a public meeting held at Leichhardt town hall on June 12. The meeting
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A labour of love from the Blue Mountains Aboriginal Legends of the Blue Mountains By Jim Smith Drawings by Liz McCalpine Available for $12 from Jim Smith, 65 Fletcher St, Wentworth Falls 2782 Reviewed by Denis Kevans Another remarkable
Broad support for ban By Celeste Seymour PERTH — The WA construction industry union, the CMEU, has enlisted the support of well-known environmentalist and unionist Jack Mundey for the campaign against the redevelopment of the old brewery
Our Jim and the big green Brisbane ALP Lord Mayor, Jim Soorley, has a proposal to make us all environmentally friendly and to stop the destruction of the biosphere. He tells us so in his many new TV advertisements on the subject. It's so simple
Desperate Kirner boycotts ALP By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Premier Joan Kirner's government is looking desperate. On June 12, her sub-faction in the Victorian ALP, had to organise a boycott of a meeting of the party's state administrative
By Kevin Healy A week when congratulations are in order. Congrats to a company, to its subsidiary and to the law. A toast to that fine example of law-abiding corporate responsibility, North Broken Dill Pissko, to its fine example of law-abiding
Jump and Other Stories By Nadine Gordimer Bloomsbury. $34.95 Reviewed by Nicholas Southey With this new collection of 16 short stories, Nadine Gordimer, South Africa's 1991 Nobel Literature Prize winner, once again displays her marvellous
By Ken Davis On May 17, more than 2000 people took part in Sydney's commemoration of the ninth world AIDS memorial. Several blocks of Oxford Street were filled with the silent mass of people, holding candles in memory of dead friends. At
By Graham Mathews NEWCASTLE — A capacity crowd of around 600 people packed Newcastle Town Hall on May 26 for a public meeting to "Save the Rail". The meeting was called by Newcastle community groups to protest against the decision of the
By Francesca Davidson MELBOURNE — An extremely successful World Environment Day rally was held in the city square on June 6. Weeks of hard work paid off as about 300 young people, mostly from high schools and on their first rally, turned up
Plan to break Bougainville blockade By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — A group of solidarity activists plan to try to run the Papua New Guinea military's blockade of Bougainville later this year in a refurbished 90-year-old ketch called Flinders.
By Peter Annear PRAGUE — By sending a majority of nationalist and left-of-centre candidates into the new federal parliament in June 5-6 elections, Czechoslovakia's voters signalled that the free- market economic reform program is far from
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