Today's tasks: ten-point justice
"Our ten points: a long-range policy for Aborigines" was adopted at the 1938 Day of Mourning and Protest held in Australian Hall, and published in the first edition of the Australian Abo Call newspaper in April
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Hands off Iraq!
The government of the United States is openly planning still another military attack on the people of Iraq. Once again, the most powerful military machine in history is to be turned against helpless civilians, whose murder will be
Wharfies seek solidarity
By Graham Mathews
BRISBANE — Wharfies here are ready to defend their wages and conditions. With small victories over the Liberal government last year in the Cairns dispute and over the Dubai fiasco, their morale is
Sole parents will have a lengthy waiting period before being paid social security under provisions buried in the proposed Parenting Payment Bill currently before parliament. The bill fuses the sole parent pension with the current parenting allowance
'Slave labour', say youth
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Howard government's move to extend the compulsory work for the dole scheme is akin to conscription and slave labour, according to a group of young people interviewed in the January 29
A Dangerous Man
[A tribute to Siegfried Sassoon — antiwar poet. ]
Sassoon was a man,A dangerous man,Sassoon was a dangerous man.He went off to a warAnd went back for moreSassoon, what a dangerous man!
And after this warHe settled his
Media bash 'single mums'
By Karen Fletcher
Brisbane GP Judy Stokes has shot to media super-stardom in Queensland following her letter to the Courier-Mail calling for single mothers to be forced to give up their children for adoption after the
New WA anti-graffiti laws
By Sean Martin-Iverson
PERTH — The state Liberal government has moved to make WA's already draconian anti-graffiti laws even harsher. The existing legislation, which allows for penalties of 200 hours of community
By Tim Anderson
SYDNEY — Following the killing of two schoolgirls on the south coast last year, and the revelation that one of those charged with murder had been on bail for another offence, a review of the Bail Act 1978 was directed by the NSW
Isaac Newton, God and the new science
Isaac Newton: The Last SorcererBy Michael WhiteFourth Estate, 1997. 402 pp., $45 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
Once upon a time, way back in the 17th century, Sir Isaac Newton saw an apple fall and in a
Telstra workers resist forced transfers
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — One hundred and fifty Telstra workers attended a protest meeting on January 30 after the company announced a plan to centralise its faults-recording network in Melbourne, forcing
Socialism — the way forwardBy John PercyResistance Books, 199730pp., $3.50Available at all Resistance Bookshops Review by Pip Hinman
While the early 1990s was marked by a propaganda offensive about the end of "socialism", as we near the end of
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