ADELAIDE — The South Australian government's Police Complaints Authority recorded 1133 complaints in the past financial year, an increase of almost 30% on the 1992-93 total. The most common complaints were demeanour, use of physical measures,
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Green Left has become a cultural institution over the three and a half years since it began publishing. The scale of the paper's achievements was brought home fully to the 240 people who attended the annual Green Left Weekly dinner in Sydney on
Wollongong Uni protests
WOLLONGONG — Wollongong University students are to hold a day of action on September 7 to protest against the federal government decision that allows universities to charge full up-front fees for students undertaking
[As we go to press, negotiations are continuing in an effort to free three Western hostages being held in Cambodia by the forces of the Khmer Rouge. Despite a peace agreement signed in October 1991, Cambodia remains at war. How this situation came
How should the student left respond to the escalation of attacks on university student rights and education? Sydney University Resistance activist MARINA CARMAN argues that the focus must be mobilising and organising an increasing number of students
By Allen Myers
How can workers "cooperate" with an employer whose response to an industrial hazard is "You've got to die sometime"? Over the last two years, workers at the A.E. Staley plant in midwestern Decatur, Illinois, have learned that
Editorial: Bosnia: give peace a chance
For over two years, the war in Bosnia has dragged on, killing an estimated 200,000 people, the majority of them the victims of Bosnian Serb aggression. In this time the besieged Bosnian government has had
By Ana Kailis
BRISBANE — On September 1, a picket was held here as part of the National Forest Day of Action. Organised by the Wilderness Society, it marked the beginning of a campaign calling on the federal government immediately to place a
By Robyn Marshall
In the August 21 national elections in Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, presidential candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), won the ballot with 50% of the vote. The conservative National Action
By Tim E. Stewart
DARWIN — Defence minister Robert Ray is due here following the end of "Pitch Black" — dusk and dawn military exercises operating out of Darwin airport. Ray finally agreed to an invitation-only meeting with the Noise
By Adam Harrison
ADELAIDE — "To describe this budget as socially irresponsible is like comparing it to turning up to a posh party without a tie. This budget rips the guts out of social justice", Claire McCarty, president of the South
By Karen Wald
HAVANA â I was (once again) amazed at Amnesty International's naivete reflected in its posting "Human Rights At Risk" regarding recent events in Cuba.
One wonders whether the people at Amnesty International who send out
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