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.
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By Andrew Watson BRISBANE — On October 19, approximately 200 Aboriginal people and their supporters rallied in Musgrave Park to call for an Aboriginal cultural centre. The Aboriginal community has been lobbying the Brisbane City Council and the
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Goss government is reported to be planning to partly meet union demands that new workers' compensation legislation continue to allow lump sum pay-outs for stress claims. Police, firefighters and state public servants
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
Japanese oppose US bases By Eva Cheng More than 80,000 people are estimated to have taken part in an demonstration in Okinawa, Japan, on October 22 to demand the end of US military bases. This followed a wave of similar actions throughout the country
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 Bill Mason BRISBANE — Unionists at the giant CRA bauxite mine at Weipa on the Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland have vowed to maintain their blockade in the face of threats of arrest. The 78 award wage workers at the mine who have
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
By Lisa Macdonald On October 23, the Australian Greens announced their senate teams for Tasmania, Victoria, NSW, Queensland and the ACT. Senate teams in South Australia and the Northern Territory will be announced soon with the goal of enabling every
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
It had to happen. An understanding of the electoral advantage of women candidates has, at last, percolated through to the leadership of the Liberal Party. On October 22, NSW deputy opposition leader Ron Phillips said the Liberals would be seen as a
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.
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