Telling it like it is: Land rights and the pastoral industry
Bludgers in Grass Castles: Native title and the unpaid debts of the pastoral industryBy Martin TaylorResistance Books, 1998$3.95 from Resistance Bookshops (addresses page 2) or send
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Jazz Against Racism
By John Gauci
SYDNEY — What better way to protest against racism than through an art form whose roots are historically grounded in the struggle of an oppressed people? Jazz literally means "wildly active" or "lively". On
Howard plan punishes young people
By Francesca Davis
In his state of the federation address on January 26, Prime Minister John Howard announced a massive expansion of the work for the dole scheme. Originally a pilot scheme involving some 1400
Black folks do
"Racism was a form of madness, a pathological hatred and cruelty that took its most despicable form in outright murder. Lynching — which took the lives of hundreds (though not, as has often been alleged, thousands) of blacks
Militant struggles in isolation may be heroic, but only a struggle that gains support from other organised workers and the general public can win its demands. Over the last week, the establishment media have been doing their utmost to ensure that the
By Jennifer Thompson
Four hundred Aboriginal people and their supporters gathered in Sydney on January 26, the 60th anniversary of the 1938 Day of Mourning and Protest by Aboriginal people at the sesquicentenary celebrations of European
Ramos Horta on the 'winds of change in Asia'
By Rohan Gaiswinkler
DARWIN — 250 people heard Jose Ramos Horta, international representative of the East Timor independence movement, give a public lecture entitled "The winds of change in eastern
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TB spreads in Russia as government chops health funds
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — At about 2.5% of GDP, health spending in Russia last year compared poorly with western European levels of 7-8%. That was before the cost-cutters lopped another
By James Vassilopoulos
In a court case with big implications for democratic rights, organisations and individuals in the United States are being sued for a picket in solidarity with the Liverpool dockers. Last September, labour and community
Watch Committee for Victoria
MELBOURNE — Around 50 people attended a January 28 meeting to establish an Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee for Victoria. Late last year, five men and one woman died in private prisons. The usual
ANC national conference
It is with a mixture of amusement and irritation that I have just read Oupa Lehulere's story on the ANC's 50th National Conference, held in Mafikeng in mid-December (Green Left Weekly, #302).
Lehulere was clearly
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