PNG denies UN access to BougainvillBy Pip Hinman The Papua New Guinea government stepped in to stop a special United Nations rapporteur on summary executions from visiting all of Bougainville, including the areas controlled by the Bougainville
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The announcement by the governments of Britain, the United States and France that they will finally sign the protocols of the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone (SPNFZ) — 10 years after its adoption by the countries of the Pacific — is a cynical
In February 1994 Australia recognised the newly independent state of Macedonia. However, when the Greek government opposed the new republic's right to call itself Macedonia, the federal Labor government succumbed to pressure from its Greek
Chilean human rights activist, DANIEL SANCHEZ SAN JUAN, is on a speaking tour of Australia. Green Left Weekly's LIAM HAZELL and TONY ILTIS spoke to him in Canberra. Sanchez is an international representative of the Chilean People's Defence
Radio highlights 9point = The Story of Pop: Rap it Up — The BBC's mega series on pop music has reached the hip hop era. This episode looks at the African American music's verbal emphasis which extends back to the griots or traditional storytellers
In Green Left Weekly #207, Rigoberta Menchu was described as a leader of the Guatemalan United Revolutionary Front (URNG), which she isn't. She is a leader of the Guatemalan Peasants' Unity Committee.
It is a fact that there are more [W]hite people on welfare than [B]lacks, but if politicians can label welfare, crime, poverty, etc, as "[B]lack", they can [and do] emasculate those programs and then work to provide welfare for the rich and powerful.
By Cameron Parker SYDNEY — Breaking yet another election promise, the Carr Labor government has moved to slash $100 million from its hospital funding over the next three years. Some $50 million in cuts will be borne by Royal Prince Alfred and
Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard RortyBy Norman GerasVerso, 1995, 151 pp., $34.95 (pb)Reviewed by Neville Spencer In the last two decades a new philosophical current has grown. Most generally it
Comment by Chow Wei-Cheng In a corporate melodrama that has dominated newspaper headlines, we heard cries of "thuggery" from Rupert Murdoch, accusations of defamation from Bill Kelty, and a vitriolic attack by Prime Minister Paul Keating on pension
Images and illusionsBy Kev CarmodyFestival RecordsReviewed by Jenny Long Initially, this new album from Kev Carmody seems light years away from those early, radical folk-narratives Pillars of society and Eulogy (for a black person). But that's not
By Max Lane The Australian government's support for the 1975 invasion of East Timor; its August, 1983 legal recognition of Indonesia's annexation by force; its policy of continuing joint military exercises and training with the Indonesian occupation
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