Timor solidarity groups meet
By Arun Pradhan
MELBOURNE — Against a backdrop of continuing human rights abuses in occupied East Timor and the visit of Indonesian General Try Sutrisno to Australia, solidarity groups from five
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Open Learning — Journals and Letters of Colonial Women — Voices not often heard in colonial literature were those of women. Most women's writing was in the form of letter or journal, rather than in the public arena. This program considers a
A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on worldwide weapons sales to developing nations says the US was the top arms supplier in 1993. The annual report, entitled "Conventional Arms Transfers to the Third World, 1986-1993", was released on
By Nick Everett
BRISBANE — "The process of democratisation will not come automatically; we have to strive for it." This is how leading human rights lawyer Buyung Nasution described the task facing the democratic movement in Indonesia.
Indigenous festival in Sydney
The second annual Nambundah festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, to be held in Sydney September 26-October 9, aims to present the talent and diversity of indigenous artists to the Aboriginal
'Timor prospects good' — activist
By Bernie Brian
DARWIN — A well-known commentator on Indonesia and co-convenor of Aksi (Indonesia Solidarity Action), Max Lane, was here last week for a series of lectures.
On
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — By the standards of most countries in most epochs, the Russian government, led for almost two years by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, should have perished long ago. It has survived largely by resorting to
Green Left #158 reprinted the text of an Amnesty International statement on alleged violations of human rights in Cuba, and a response to that statement by Havana-based journalist Karen Wald. Both were carried on Pegasus, from which we obtained them,
Ladybird, Ladybird
Directed by Ken Loach
Screenplay by Rona Munro
Showing from mid-October at Dendy Cinema, Sydney
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
This is a sad tale of injustice at the hands of the British welfare bureaucracy.
RU486 ruling
By Kath Gelber
The misnamed Right to Life Association lost another battle last week when its court challenge to Australia's participation in World Health Organisation (WHO) trials of the so-called "abortion pill",
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