Paul Oboohov, Canberra
Activists in Canberra were shocked to learn of the January 19 death of Charlie Pahlman due to a snorkelling accident in Samoa. Charlie was deputy director of the ACT Council for Social Services (ACTCOSS), an ACT Greens
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1916: Emma Goldman is arrested in New York for lecturing on birth control.
February 17
1938: The Amalgamated Engineers Union is deregistered after refusing to discontinue a strike in Sydney.
1942: Black Panther Party founder Huey
Michelle Brear, Sydney
The coronial inquest into the death of Thomas "TJ" Hickey was a "whitewash", Ray Jackson, president of the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA), told the 150-strong crowd that packed Redfern Town Hall on February 8.
Blaktrax: Gumbainggir Lady — Features Emma Donovan, a young Gumbainggir woman from an Aboriginal family well-known in the music scene. Her vocal style is influenced by country, gospel and soul. SBS, Saturday, February 19, 5.30pm.
Cutting Edge:
Alex Salmon, Perth
The campaign for the February 26 Western Australian election has become dominated by the issue of how to solve the problem of water supply in the state's south-west, including metropolitan Perth.
In the drought-stricken farming
PERTH — On January 11, around 30 people gathered outside the ANZ bank in the Murray Street Mall for a speakout against the bank's profiting from the war in Iraq.
The protest was called by Resistance to highlight the true nature of the US-led
On February 3, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund claimed a victory, as US Customs released a shipment of Stripburger anthologies that it had seized in November on the grounds that two stories in the anthologies infringed copyright. The two stories in
Marce Cameron
Cuban president Fidel Castro told thousands of delegates to the first World Literacy Congress in Havana on February 1 that he had closely watched the inauguration ceremony of US President George Bush on January 20 and saw "the face of
Doug Lorimer
As the candidate most identified with the US occupation, former CIA pin-up boy Iyad Allawi's career took a nose dive in the January 30 Iraqi elections. With Allawi finishing a distant third after Sistani's United Iraqi Alliance and the
On February 5, workers in the two factories in the free-trade zone in Ouanaminthe, north Haiti, reached an agreement with the Grupo M company that runs the zone to resolve a seven-month dispute. In June, more than 350 workers, including all known
Jon Lamb, Darwin
Ongoing problems at various mine sites and concerns about industrial and urban developments across the Northern Territory have prompted renewed calls for the creation of an independent environment protection authority. The absence
"I hear there's rumours on the internets [sic] that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. The all-volunteer army works... We're not going to have a draft so long as I'm the president", George Bush
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