By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialists are running two candidates in the March 15 election for the Brisbane City Council — Kathy Newnam for the ward of Central and Coral Wynter for the ward of Dutton Park. The DS election manifesto
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By James Balowski
On February 6, People's Democratic Party (PRD) activists Ken Budha Kusumandaru, Victor Da Costa and Ignatius Putut Arintoko, who are being tried in Jakarta for subversion, presented a protest letter to court. Signed by PRD
Picket calls for end to war on Bougainville
By Jo Brown
SYDNEY — More than 20 people staged a picket on February 13 outside the Papua New Guinean consulate to protest against the ongoing war on Bougainville. The picket also demanded the removal
Edna Ryan
Edna Ryan, feminist social reformer, political activist and author passed away in Canberra in the early hours of Monday morning, February 10.
Edna was born in 1904, the 10th of 12 children in the working class Sydney suburb of Pyrmont.
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By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Early next month, antiwar protesters are planning to converge on the Shoalwater Bay military training area near Rockhampton in Queensland to protest "Operation Tandem Thrust", a joint US-Australian war game involving
By James Vassilopoulos
It should come as little surprise that union membership has fallen yet again. The percentage of workers who are in unions has been declining for more than 20 years now. In August 1996, 31% of the work force were in unions,
By Calita Murray
My 93-year-old mother, Agnes Harrison, is reputedly the oldest Aboriginal woman living on the coast between Sydney and Melbourne, at Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Koori Village. At least she was until last year, when she was forced to go
Downer a downer on human rights?
Amnesty international is concerned by the Australian government's reluctance to agree to a human rights clause in a trade agreement with the European Union. Almost 100 counties have already agreed to the clause
Resistance sets down plans
By Lana Halpin
BRISBANE — Robby Hartono, from the People's Democratic Party of Indonesia, spoke at a Resistance branch meeting on February 8, discussing the different conditions that Australian and Indonesian
By Emma Webb and Shane McArthur
"Law and order" has become a key issue in the lead up to the SA state elections, just as it did in previous elections in WA, NSW and Queensland. Liberal and Labor have taken a bipartisan line, promising to get tough
Strip mine in Tarkine
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — A mining lease has been granted for five hectares of land in the Tarkine wilderness in Tasmania's north-west, fulfilling environmentalists' predictions that the Tarkine road would open up the area
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