Riot police cracked down and fired tear gas on thousands of protesters in central Rio de Janeiro on October 17 as marches flooded the streets to reject unelected President Michel Temer’s proposed 20-year freeze on public spending, which critics say will spell disaster in the cash-strapped country.
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By Ron Guignard
ADELAIDE — About 150 people, including some from Melbourne, protested at the Adelaide Submarine Corporation's (ASC) launch of its first Collins class submarine at Port Adelaide on Saturday, August 28. The Peace Action
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — In a world where only 1% of property is owned by women, there are very few places for women which are safe and accessible. For lesbians, the situation is even more bleak. But a group of Sydney women are about to change
Between Light and Dark
By Penelope Swales
Launch: Friday September 17, 8:30 p.m. The Old Troubadour Upstairs, 388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Reviewed by Lachlan Anderson
The long-awaited follow-up to Penelope Swales' album Songs from the
Greenpeace criticises EPA
By Marina Carman
SYDNEY — Weeks after a 10-tonne crude oil spill from a Shell terminal into Gore Cove in Sydney Harbour, the area is still polluted and there is no sign of prosecution by the Environment
By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — Just under one year after the Coalition came into government in Victoria, the state remains in severe economic crisis, and a new austerity budget last week hit Victorians still reeling from the attacks brought in by
Comment by Ruth Birgin
Why, in the present Australian federal and state governments, is there not one vocal politician with enough backbone to tackle the "drug problem", not as a legal, but as a socio-medical issue?
The overwhelming
By Zanny Begg
SYDNEY — The National Maritime Museum has gathered together a collection of artworks produced by Sydney wharfies in a fascinating exhibition, "On the Waterfront: wharfies, artists and actors". The exhibition brings to life the
Stevie
Nile dictates to Fahey
Until the last week, the lesbian and gay communities themselves have been divided about the anti-vilification legislation, but the unprincipled actions taken by Fred Nile, who forced the government to modify
September 11 marks the 20th anniversary of the overthrow of Socialist president Salvador Allende by the Chilean military.
By Ana Kailis
The Queensland government agreed last week to buy back large tracts of land on the Cape York Peninsula from Queensland developer George Quaid.
The September 6 announcement came after months of intense campaigning by the
By Pip Hinman
"Bill Clinton's 'successful' operation in Mogadishu has led to an unknown number of civilian deaths, has undermined the entire relief effort, and alienated the majority of ordinary Somalis from the very people they had hoped had
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