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Israelis protest against US policy

Israelis protest against US policy By Adam Hanieh TEL AVIV — Around 50 people gathered outside the US consulate here on February 4 to protest against US policy towards Iraq. The demonstrators carried signs calling for the US to leave the Gulf

Talking about prejudice

Talking about prejudice China DollsWritten and directed by Tony AyresProduced by Helen BowdenScreens on ABC-TV, February 19, 9pm Review by Pip Hinman This half-hour doco on racial stereotyping and discrimination within the gay community raises

Mandela to address Rio Tinto unions

Mandela to address Rio Tinto unions South African President Nelson Mandela is to meet with trade union leaders whose members are employed by Rio Tinto, the world's biggest minerals company and renowned for its anti-union stand. Rio Tinto also has a

An antidemocratic farce

Editorial: An antidemocratic farce An antidemocratic farce The staged proceedings of the constitutional convention underscore the fact that the move to a republic was never going to be more than a trivial reform. With less than half the

ACT's socialist alternative

ACT's socialist alternative By Chris Spindler CANBERRA — The Democratic Socialist candidates for the February 21 ACT election launched their policies on February 5. Tim Gooden, one of three Democratic Socialist candidates for Molonglo,

New action against deaths in custody

New action against deaths in custody By Jennifer Thompson A report on the inquest of the death of Eddie Murray and the subsequent Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission investigation was published late last year by the Newcastle Legal

Life of Riley: World's best practice

World's best practice We live in strange times. It now can be revealed that there has been in existence for the past year a body known as the Commission of Inquiry into the Inordinate Increase of Bludgers. Some months ago this body sent out

Left on-line

Left on-line What's new on Free Speech TV — McLibel: Criticising McDonald's is not for the faint-hearted. The corporation is notorious for abusing libel law to silence activists. British activists David Morris and Helen Steel chose to fight

Fees struggle erupts in South Africa

By Norm Dixon More than 300 students were arrested after staging a sit-in at the University of Western Cape (UWC) on February 1. The students were protesting against increased university fees and hard-line regulations that exclude students who

Abortion clinic bombed in Alabama

By Claudette Bégin On January 29, a nail-studded bomb killed a guard and seriously injured a nurse at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. It had appeared to be a normal day at the New Woman All Women Health Clinic. An anti-abortion

Appeal against Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act

Appeal against Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act By Angela Walker CANBERRA — The 1997 federal Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act denies the Ngarrindjeri people of the lower Murray region of South Australia the right to seek protection of sacred sites

Voluntary student unionism in Qld

Voluntary student unionism in Qld By Zanny Begg BRISBANE — At the recent Young Liberals' conference in Noosa, Queensland, deputy premier Joan Sheldon announced that the state Liberal Party would introduce voluntary student unionism legislation