By Zanny Begg
PALMERSTON NORTH, NZ — The New Zealand government recently passed legislation forcing all student unions to hold referendums on voluntary membership before May 1, 1999. In 1995, right-wing students at Waikato University formed a
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By Lisa Macdonald
On August 27, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution which might enable progress towards the lifting of UN sanctions against Libya. The resolution proposes that the Libyan government hand over, for trial in the
Looking out: To death
By Brandon Astor Jones
"At the door of life, by the gate of breath,There are worse things waiting for men than death." — Algernon Charles Swinburn On August 13, at 10:01 am, I folded a piece of art paper into a makeshift
Students organise against attack on arts school
By Alex Bainbridge
HOBART — The Tasmania University Union (TUU) has organised a campaign to protect the university's art school from "rationalisation". The administration is considering closing
By Alison Dellit
On September 2, Warren Snowdon, federal ALP candidate for the Northern Territory, announced that Labor was unable to determine until after the election whether or not it would close the Jabiluka uranium mine if elected. Snowdon
Protests continue throughout Indonesia
MAX LANE is national coordinator of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET). Lane has been in constant contact with activists from the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD), who are
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By Norrian Rundle and Michael O'Reilly
On September 1, primary and secondary school teachers in the eastern half of Victoria stopped work. Schools in the western half of the state took stop-work action on August 18. The half-day stop-work on
By Francesca Davis
On September 1, the federal government decided to withdraw from the forest assessment process for north-east NSW. The assessments are the basis for 20-year regional forest agreements between governments, the timber industry and
By Russell Mokhiberand Robert Weissman
WASHINGTON — In a Congress eager to do the bidding of big business, an item atop the Chamber of Commerce's corporate welfare agenda is in serious jeopardy. The establishment leadership of the House of
By Nadeem Ansari
On August 28, the Pakistan government introduced a bill — the Fifteenth Amendment Bill — to the National Assembly to amend the constitution to make Islamic law the supreme law of Pakistan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, speaking
By Jorge Jorquera
September 11 marks the 25th anniversary of the overthrow of the left-wing president of Chile, Salvador Allende, by the military. The bloody coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power ended with the assassination of Allende and
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