ACT's socialist alternative
By Chris Spindler
CANBERRA — The Democratic Socialist candidates for the February 21 ACT election launched their policies on February 5. Tim Gooden, one of three Democratic Socialist candidates for Molonglo,
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New action against deaths in custody
By Jennifer Thompson
A report on the inquest of the death of Eddie Murray and the subsequent Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission investigation was published late last year by the Newcastle Legal
World's best practice
We live in strange times. It now can be revealed that there has been in existence for the past year a body known as the Commission of Inquiry into the Inordinate Increase of Bludgers.
Some months ago this body sent out
Left on-line
What's new on Free Speech TV â McLibel: Criticising McDonald's is not for the faint-hearted. The corporation is notorious for abusing libel law to silence activists. British activists David Morris and Helen Steel chose to fight
By Norm Dixon
More than 300 students were arrested after staging a sit-in at the University of Western Cape (UWC) on February 1. The students were protesting against increased university fees and hard-line regulations that exclude students who
By Claudette Bégin
On January 29, a nail-studded bomb killed a guard and seriously injured a nurse at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama. It had appeared to be a normal day at the New Woman All Women Health Clinic. An anti-abortion
Appeal against Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act
By Angela Walker
CANBERRA — The 1997 federal Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act denies the Ngarrindjeri people of the lower Murray region of South Australia the right to seek protection of sacred sites
Voluntary student unionism in Qld
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — At the recent Young Liberals' conference in Noosa, Queensland, deputy premier Joan Sheldon announced that the state Liberal Party would introduce voluntary student unionism legislation
The darkness of a musician's downfall
ComplicityBy Timothy DalyMarian Street Theatre, SydneyUntil February 22 Review by Brendan Doyle
This well-constructed play, given a fine production by director John Krummel, tells the story of Eugene
Aircraft noise
SYDNEY — More than 1200 residents gave the thumbs down to the Sydney Airport Noise Plan at a public meeting in the inner west suburb of Ashfield on February 2. The meeting was organised by "Save our Skies" (SOS), formed last
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — At the convention of the broad democratic front Sanlakas held on January 31, more than 100 delegates elected five candidates to stand in the May national elections. Fifty-two congressional seats will be contested
By George J. Aditjondro
Having accumulated their initial capital from the Salim Group of Liem Sioe Liong and Nusamba Group of Bob Hasan, Suharto's six children began to form their own conglomerates. During this phase, Daddy was always ready to give
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