Free East Timor campaign escalates
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — The East Timorese community held a rally in the city centre to coincide with the New York signing of an agreement between Indonesia and Portugal on East Timor on May 5.
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Green Left Weekly spoke to JON LAND, a member of ASIET (Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor) who has recently returned from East Timor, about the United Nations agreement on East Timor. Question: What does the UN agreement contain?
By Iggy Kim
On April 13, by a vote of two to one, the full Federal Court upheld the government's right to deport a two-year-old Australian-born child by denying refugee status to his family. Shi Hai Chen was born to Chinese asylum seekers Ren Bing
By Jim Green
The federal government is proceeding with its plan to build a nuclear waste dump in South Australia, even though negotiations with traditional owners over heritage conservation remain unresolved. On April 30, the government issued a
What you are not supposed to see
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The public does not care what happens to people in prison." — Alison Fitzgerald Recently, I went to get a mop to scrub the floor of the cell I occupy. The mop was old and battered, but
Music for buffaloes and punters alike
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — "Buffalo Music", a May 1 concert raising funds which will go to East Timorese farmers for buying buffaloes, attracted more than 500 people and raised almost $7000. The crowd
Support for East Timor and democracy in Indonesia
By Bea Brear and Jenny Long
SYDNEY — On May 5, around 25 people attended a Univeristy of NSW Resistance Club public forum about the political situation in East Timor and Indonesia. Green Left
By Sue Boland
After the goods and services tax (GST) was decisively rejected at the 1993 federal election, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) helped resuscitate it. In 1996, ACOSS and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
By Corinne Batt-Rawden
LISMORE — A 250-strong protest rally was held on May 8 to oppose the decision by Southern Cross University (SCU) to abruptly withdraw funding from 2NCR community radio. The university's unilateral decision in March was made
By Allen Myers
The German Greens are to hold a special congress on May 13 to decide their stand on the war in the Balkans. The party has been deeply divided by the issue, and there is even talk of a split between the pro-NATO wing, which includes
Bronc Finlay, 1904-1999
On March 11, in his 95th year, Communist Party veteran Bronc Finlay died.
One of Comrade Finlay's greatest contributions to the proletarian cause was spearheading the Communist Party of Australia's courageous and
Attempt to hide GST impact on indigenous people
By Margaret Allum
The minister for Aboriginal affairs, Senator John Herron, admitted on April 29 that he ordered the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) to remove from its web
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