SYDNEY — On April 4, NSW Greens MP and infrastructure spokesperson Sylvia Hale moved in the NSW parliament to stop the state government from selling off the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme.
Hale said: "This government's record on public
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Allen Myers, Hanoi
The International Conference of Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims, held in Vietnam's capital on March 28-29, drew some 150 participants, about half of them from outside Vietnam.
After two days of discussion and a visit to Friendship
Natalie Lowrey
"Lake Cowal is our heartland and we'll never give up fighting for it, or let go of our culture ... They tell us gold will be poured soon, but we are keeping up our campaign here and overseas." These fighting words are from Wiradjuri
Rachel Evans & Arthur Randell, Sydney
The federal government's attempt to silence students with their mis-named "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) is being resisted by students campaigning on various campuses for secure, well-lit spaces that are
Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising during the Second World War, has accused the conservative religious broadcaster Radio Maryja of "xenophobia, chauvinism and anti-Semitism" and has called on Prime Minister
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REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
"There are three options from which widows may choose, according to our texts. They may burn with
Allen Myers, Hanoi
Mai Giang Vu was a conscript in the Saigon regime's military from 1968 to 1973, when he was wounded, losing his left eye. In 1968 he accompanied an infantry patrol on a week-long defoliation operation. In 1970 and 1971 he was
Graham Matthews
Barely one week after the federal government's anti-worker legislation became law on March 27, and following a spate of sackings nationally — the most publicised being the Cowra Abattoir workers in NSW — the new power that Work
On March 25, a million-strong march of immigrants made its way through the streets of Los Angeles in protest at proposed laws that would further entrench the oppression of undocumented workers in the US. Tens of thousands have joined protests in
Paul Benedek, Brisbane
"Whenever I want to ride a bus to university, I pray that the bus driver won't be racist, pray that he will look beyond my scarf and treat me like everyone else", Salam El-Merebi, an activist with Al-Nisa, a Muslim women's
Dale Mills
Sylvia Boyes and Helen John, both in their sixties, are the latest suspected "terrorists" to be charged in Britain, according to a front page story in the April 6 edition of the London Independent.
Both women are long-time activists,
Sue Bull, Ballarat
The long campaign for an enterprise agreement at the University of Ballarat has turned a corner. The March 7 departure of Vice-Chancellor Kerry Cox, who is also head of the employer body, has opened the way for a resumption of
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