By Peter Boyle
A cacophony of outrageous racist statements by the likes of Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron (Aborigines are "backward", sleep with dogs and share their germs, he says) and Western Mining director Hugh Morgan
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Art with Timor
Art with Timor
Paintings by Sebastian Silva
Beaufort Hotel Complex, Darwin, June 25-27
Reviewed by Deb Sorensen
Calm rural scenes of East Timor and local vistas were the subject matter for Sebastian Silva's debut
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — More than 100 women participated in a general meeting on June 27 to discuss the rebuilding of the women's liberation movement here. The meeting was organised by activists who felt that the large attendance at
Swift response to Indonesian repression
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — The news that students at the Jakarta campus of the National Science and Technology Institute had been beaten and arrested by the Indonesian military for protesting
By Anne Casey
SYDNEY — A dangerous precedent has been set in NSW with the criminal conviction of five logging protesters who appeared in Cooma Local Court on July 7.
The five conservationists were arrested in April during a peaceful
Land rights and 'extremism'
There is nothing that frightens the racists and the moneybags more than a victory — even a partial victory — for the Aboriginal people. Even the half-hearted acknowledgment that Australia's indigenous people
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Industrial relations minister Graham Kierath tabled the Workplace Agreements Bill, the Industrial Relations Amendments Bill and the Minimum Conditions of Employment Bill in the WA parliament on July 8.
When
Workcover protests begin
By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — About 1000 building workers braved Melbourne's wintry conditions on July 7 to protest against the Kennett government's Workcover Act.
The law, which came into effect in December,
Determined to defeat bigotry
Situated 51 miles south-west of Syracuse, New York, the tiny hamlet of New Berlin is reflective of many US small towns. Anthony Werner and his son Tony discovered a burning cross in their yard. A burning cross is
By Peter Boyle
An Australian Broadcasting Authority survey conducted in June 1992 estimated that there are 5.8 to 6 million TV-watching households in Australia. Of these:
77% watch more than two hours a day.
54% leave their sets on
By Brian Martin
The belief that electoral politics is the same as democracy is deep seated. It is held by people across the political spectrum.
To be sure, there is much dissatisfaction with electioneering. Politicians are sold like
The Cuban government has rejected as "grotesquely false" US claims that Cuban guards had shot and killed Cuban citizens seeking asylum in the US military base at Guantánamo.
In Havana on July 8, Cuban foreign minister Roberto Robaina,
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