By Francesca Davis
"Australia has signed the Ottawa treaty to ban landmines, but has yet to ratify the convention and begin the destruction of our own stockpile of landmines. The time has come for Australia to back its words with action." So said
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Liberal stall attacked at O-week
By Nikki Ulasowski
CANBERRA — During the major orientation week market day at the Australian National University, the Liberal Club's stall was attacked twice. According to club members, the Australian flag was
By Angela Walker
Journalists, Aboriginal people and others gathered at the High Court in Canberra on February 6 were astonished to hear Dr Gavan Griffith, QC for the government, defend the validity of the 1997 Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act by arguing
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You steal their land —you take their children —incarcerate their young menand too many died:You apportion blame.You assault their pride,have you no shame?Now you cut their educationit provides no exultation.You undermine their healthas you
Although the Coalition government gave Energy Resources Australia (ERA) permission to go ahead with a uranium mine at Jabiluka in Kakadu last year, the majority of Australians oppose uranium mining, especially in Kakadu. Support for Aboriginal
Correction
An article in Green Left issue 306 about a Defenders of Native Title (DONT) public meeting in Melbourne stated that Gary Foley and Jacqui Katona were at the meeting. This was not the case. Both Katona and Foley attended a Jabiluka public
Faces of Hate: Hate Crime in AustraliaEdited by Chris Cunneen, David Fraser & Stephen TomsenHawkins Press, 1997. 272 pp., $25 (pb) Review by Stuart Russell
Australia has witnessed an upsurge in the incidence of hate crime and hate speech,
By Lisa Macdonald
Next time you see an opinion piece about how women are finally breaking into this or that male domain, or how young women are now "doing it for themselves", or any of the current epidemic of "you've come a long way baby!"
Santa and me
When we last met, B.A. Santamaria and I were brothers in the war against communism. I can't say we were comrades, as that wouldn't be apt. Since B.A. only recruited menfolk to his secret armies, the sisters never really got a look
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