Hired guns@column head = Hired guns
By Peter Boyle
There is a growing market out there for hired guns, helicopter gunships, fighter jets and tanks, and the "professionals" who will use these lethal instruments for a fee. When it
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By Karen Fredericks
BRISBANE — The national executive of the Community and Public Sector Union is proposing a "work-in" as part of a national campaign to oppose the federal government's cuts to legal aid. Members are being urged to "make
Socialist candidates call for community control
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "Brisbane needs a council that is controlled by ordinary working people, who are the majority — not a council that panders to developers and big business: a
APCET meets in Manila
By Jon Lamb
The Asia Pacific Coalition for East Timor (APCET) held a council meeting in Manila on February 25-26. APCET involves East Timor solidarity groups from within the Asia Pacific region, but also includes
By Bernard Wunsch
IPSWICH — Some 350 people attended a forum titled "One year of Hanson: Exposing the myths" on Sunday, March 2, in the Ipswich Workers Club. The forum, organised by the Ipswich Anti-Racism Committee, was aimed at discussing
Death of civil rights
By Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — When lesbian JM won an anti-discrimination case in the Equal Opportunities Commission against a Queensland sperm bank that refused her access because of her sexuality, the media made
Challenge to Tasmania's gay laws
By Marina Cameron
On February 26, the High Court announced a unanimous decision to allow a legal challenge to the Tasmanian government's anti-gay laws to be heard. Gay activists Rodney Croome and Nick Toonen
By Graham Matthews
March is Australia's folk festival season, when some of the best performers from overseas tour the country. This year, one of Canada's finest young songwriters, James Keelaghan, will be performing at five of the major
Not so New LadsNot so New Lads
"The modern young man is changing. Well-trained in the skill of pleasing women, he's discovering the benefits of pleasing himself. He's a New Lad, and he's ready to kick the SNAG and the Bloke out of women's
By Susan Price
MELBOURNE — The opening two months ago of a bookshop run by the extreme right-wing organisation National Action has sparked a broad community campaign to drive them out of the area. Fawkner is a working-class, migrant suburb on
By Sean Healy
With banners proclaiming their allegiance to "socialism, feminism, democracy and unionism", and newsletters declaring the need to "educate, agitate, organise", the National Organisation of Labor Students tried to make a big splash
International Women's Day '97
Thousands of women and male supporters rallied and marched on March 8 against the attacks on women's rights. Rallies around the country heard speakers representing Aboriginal people, migrants, trade unionists, young
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