Compensate the stolen generations!
Last month, the federal minister for Aboriginal affairs, John Herron, questioned the use of the term "stolen generation" to describe the victims of decades of Australian government policy to forcibly remove
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NO RECONCILIATION WITHOUT JUSTICE!
Sunday, March 28
Sydney
Join the "No reconciliation without justice" contingent in the Corroboree 2000 walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Rally at 10am, Clark Park, Lavender St, Milson Point to demand:
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Strong militant showing in AMWU elections
The returning officer overseeing national office-bearer elections in the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union announced on May 19 that incumbent national secretary Doug Cameron has managed, with some
The suicide of New Left Review
By Boris Kagarlitsky
For 40 years, New Left Review was a symbol for the radical intelligentsia throughout the world. Now, this journal is no more. There is another journal which bears the same name, but it is
BY DAVID ROBIE & SHERYL HO
SUVA, May 20 — George Speight, the leader of the seven gunmen who seized Fiji parliament on May 19, has defied mounting international condemnation of the kidnapping of Fiji's elected cabinet. He claims that his
Solidarity with refugees
BY BIANCA AZAR
SYDNEY — Danger. Displacement. Despair. The experiences of refugees are undeniably grim, and the difficult, often demoralising process of seeking asylum in Australia makes their struggle even harder. But
Reconciliation requires justice
On May 27, in the Sydney Opera House forecourt not far from where the attempted genocide of Australia's indigenous people began, the spokespeople for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation will hand their
SOUTH AFRICA: Students killed at uni protest
Police killed one student and injured scores during a protest at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) in Durban on May 14. Witnesses believe that another student was also killed. Students were
Support for teachers urged
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — One hundred and seventy people, angry at the diversion of federal and state funds from public to private schools, were urged to support the NSW teachers' industrial campaign and calls for
BY SEAN HEALY
Refugee advocates have condemned as "a policy to manufacture xenophobia" federal government withholding of welfare services to refugees released from the Woomera detention centre in South Australia. Ninety percent of the 1300 held at
Dishonest advertising
BY JONATHAN SINGER
"It is hard to accept that the federal government's latest GST advertisements are anything more than political propaganda ... the television campaign is devoid of any information that could plausibly be
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