Nowra reconciliation meeting
By Margaret Perrott
NOWRA — More than 80 people attended a "meet the candidates" night organised by the Berry Aboriginal Reconciliation Committee. The meeting, held at the Nowra Aboriginal Cultural Centre on
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By Karen Fredericks
BRISBANE — The Peter Beattie Labor state government on September 15 announced a budget which funds the biggest ever expansion of prisons in Australia's history. The budget allocation for corrective services capital expansion
IN A REPORT released in Geneva on September 9, the Center for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, a component of the International Commission of Jurists, called for the prosecution of armed forces, police and local militia personnel who, it says,
'Hands off Assata!'
By Deepa Fernandes
Her name is Assata Shakur. Assata "She who Struggles" Shakur "the Thankful". They call her JoAnne Chesimard, and they want her as an accomplice to murder. I met Assata last New Year's Eve in Havana. She is a
Socialists, Democrats debate youth policy
WENDY ROBERTSON and PAUL BENEDEK spoke to NATASHA STOTT DESPOJA, deputy leader of the Australian Democrats, and MARINA CARMAN, the Democratic Socialists' NSW Senate candidate and a leader of the socialist
Students protest 'dual role' of military
By Max Lane
On September 14, student militants organised protest actions in eight Indonesian cities calling for the end to dwifungsi ABRI (the dual role of the armed forces). The dwifungsi doctrine, which
Xanana: 'A solution for East Timor'
The following is abridged from a paper written by XANANA GUSMAO and presented by Virgilio Guterres da Silva to the "Indonesia after Suharto" conference, organised by the New Zealand Asia Institute of the
By Nick Everett
About 140 Community and Public Sector Union members stopped work on September 15 to support the union's campaign to reverse a $240 million-dollar funding cut to Centrelink, the federal government's service delivery agency. After
On September 23, Germans will vote in the country's general elections. The following background information is abridged from a paper presented to the conferences of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and The American Council on
Cuba updates
Women in Cuba
Cuba received praise earlier this month from the United Nations for the great advances made by Cuban women since the triumph of the revolution in 1959. Angela King, undersecretary general for the UN, has been in Cuba
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