Time for the decriminalisation of drugs
The second phase of Prime Minister John Howard's Tough on Drugs campaign
is a $27 million education campaign involving a series of TV advertisements
and a glossy booklet to be distributed to
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BY SALLY HYSLOP
PERTH — Students at Murdoch University were horrified to learn that a wave of sexual assaults has occurred on campus since the start of the year. The silence and inaction of university administration have provoked outrage among
BY KATHY FAIRFAX
SYDNEY — Since the late 1940s, successive Australian governments have debated the need for a second Sydney airport. As many as 20 possible sites have been suggested and more than half of those have been closely examined.
In
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — Plans for re-establishing the militant, anti-capitalist traditions of May Day are striking in a chord in northern NSW, with activists meeting to organise an protest rally here on April 28 and then a large contingent to
BY MATT RICH
MELBOURNE — On Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's city campus, the Global Action club, which is building the May 1 (M1) protest at RMIT, is campaigning against the corporatisation of education.
Only two of the RMIT
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — The Queensland Council of Unions has authorised a special affiliates' meeting to discuss the planned May 1 blockade of the city's stock exchange.
The QCU's executive, meeting on March 27, decided to call the
BY MOLLY WISHART
SYDNEY — Three hundred people attended a rally at Cronulla on March 25 to protest the federal government's plan to build a new reactor in the nearby southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights.
Cronulla was chosen as he site of the
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — Unions at the NSW Labor Council meeting on March 29 vowed to campaign against changes to workers' compensation which the state ALP government is attempting to ram through.
Industrial relations minister and ALP right
BY CRAIG MCGREGOR
MELBOURNE — Workers in the Australian Stock Exchange's Melbourne building got a rare taste of democracy on March 27, when a contingent of M1 activists converged on the Collins Street offices to ask them to vote for their
BY FELICITY MARTIN & GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — M1 is steadily gaining support amongst major Victorian trade unions, with the Victorian Trades Hall Council and the M1 Alliance agreeing to combine forces for an "Anti-Corporate Unity March" on May
BY FELIPE PEREZ ROQUE
This an abridged version of a statement delivered by Cuban foreign Felipe Perez Roque at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, March 27, 2001. It has been lightly abridged.
We have come
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
ROSTOV — Among analysts, there is general agreement that the affair of Colonel Budanov should have split Russia. It should have split it into people who are sure that their country's army is always in the right, and that the
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