By Sean Healy
Talks supposedly aimed at delivering peace in northern Ireland began on June 10. Initially supposed to be genuinely all party, the talks have been threatened by the British government's refusal to allow representatives of the
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By Arun Pradhan
PERTH — A National Union of Students (NUS) state executive meeting on June 14 voted to slash $2500 from the NUS West women's campaign budget. The meeting was attended by 20 students who opposed the move because it would mean a
Launch of Aboriginal solidarity group
MELBOURNE — The new group Justice for Indigenous Australians was launched here on June 3, the fourth anniversary of the High Court's native title judgment, "Mabo Day". Speakers included Aboriginal lawyer
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — Most of Russia's population are following the election campaign with confusion and scepticism, mixed at times with curiosity and fear. The Yeltsin team has put its stake on three methods: "going to the people";
The outcome of last week's hard cop (Peter Costello) and soft cop (John Howard) routine around the removal of sales tax exemption for state governments was another blow to working people.
Not surprisingly, the federal treasurer's move early in the
[The following is the text of a petition, addressed to the governor of the US state of Georgia and initiated by Amnesty International in Germany. It should be sent to: The Honorable Zell Miller, Governor of Georgia, 203 State Capitol, Atlanta, GA,
By Nick Fredman
SYDNEY — NSW teachers will stop work for two days on June 2021 if the Department of School Education and TAFE do not agree to their demand for a 12% pay rise with no trade-offs. Teachers from government schools in the metropolitan
By Sarah Stephen
HOBART — Over the past year, Mecca Performance Cafe has become one of the most popular venues for alternative political and cultural performance, as well as alternative political scene and discussion. Political groups such as the
Black churches in flames
Over the June 10 weekend, two more black churches in the south were torched, in Greenville, Texas, bringing the total of such racist arson attacks to more than 60 since 1990. The number of instances is accelerating —
By Gus Gulson
In the past, forest reserves in NSW have mostly been created from land that no-one else wanted. Economically unviable areas or areas too steep for logging have made up most of the reserve system. The more productive areas have been
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — The South Australian Education Network (SAEN), the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU), the Public Service Association (PSA) and other unions have united to organise a worker and student mass meeting and
Homophobia and the royal commission?
In Tom Wilson's article "NSW gays oppose witch hunt", GLW, June 5, there is a major inaccuracy and presumption of a supposed homogeneity of gay and lesbian opinion about the Royal Commission and its supposed
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