By Dave Wright
SYDNEY About 270 people attended the annual Green Left Weekly dinner on September 16. The theme for the night was Liberation, in particular focused on the Asia Pacific region. Speakers included Alico Santos, a Fretilin activist
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By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — More than 1000 school service officers (SSOs), teachers, parents and supporters rallied at Parliament House steps on September 21 in an ongoing campaign to save 500 SSO positions destined to be cut in 1996.
Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm, and Saturday, 2.30am.
Programs of interest on Sydney
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Helen Darville-Demidenko identity
Anna Booth, former joint national secretary of the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union and honorary ACTU vice president has completed her move out of the union movement and into the private sector — to become the new vice president of the Sydney
By Norm Dixon
Nurses from five major hospitals and 14 clinics in and around Johannesburg have agreed to suspend their militant strike action. Nurses at Soweto's Baragwanath Hospital — South Africa's largest — led a walkout on September 4
By John Percy
Seventy-five years ago, under the impact and inspiration of the October 1917 Russian Revolution, the Communist Party of Australia was founded. It was a modest beginning, but an historic event. The CPA formed in 1920 finally
September 16 was the first International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, marking the anniversary of the signing in 1987 of the international Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. While the occasion was a PR
Iain Stewart
Public subsidy for private profit MELBOURNE — The cost of staging a Formula One Grand Prix is substantial and is increased when the event is staged at a temporary circuit such as Albert Park. In addition to capital outlay on the
By John Martinkus and Daniel Pedersen
EAST TIMOR — When five shots penetrated the body of the commandant of subdistrict Vermasse as he was on his way to work on July 27, it triggered — by afternoon — a violent and repressive response from
John Percy
For years they've been telling us we live in the Lucky Country. It's now official. Each Australian — man, woman, child — is now worth $1.1 million, according to the World Bank. Its recent study estimating the wealth of 192
By Norm Dixon
Gabriel Tetiarahi, leader of Tahiti's umbrella NGO organisation Hiti Tau, fears that he will be arrested by French colonial authorities when returns to Papeete after a brief visit to Australia. Tetiarahi's fears are well founded.
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