By Tom Jordan and Norm Dixon The Papua New Guinea Defence Force has suffered significant setbacks in central Bougainville, the defending Bougainville Revolutionary Army has claimed. In the most important incident, BRA militants recaptured the
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Telling East Timor: Personal Testimonies 1942-1992 By Michele Turner New South Wales University Press 218 pp. $19.95 Reviewed by Lenore Tardif This book is the oral history of some of the most brutal human rights abuses in recent times. It
Intifada stirs as negotiations falter By Sean Malloy "It does not take much for any intelligent person, who visits the territories, to discover that life is still as sickening if not more so today than it was a few months ago. This leads
By Peter Boyle It is our debt, the mainstream media tell us. Every Victorian owes $12,640 (or more) as their individual share of the state government's debt. In his most conciliatory moment, Premier Jeff Kennett said he understood workers'
Telecom privatisation It was not surprising to read that the man who gave Sydney a white elephant at Darling Harbour and a leaky monorail is now following a much bigger quarry, the privatisation of Telecom. One of Labor's "mates", Laurie
Democrats will support repeal of 45D Victorian Senator Sid Spindler announced on November 12 that the Democrats would vote for the repeal of sections 45D and E of the Trade Practices Act. This is in line with party policy but is an about-face
MARK NEWHOUSE, ANC (WA) Youth and Student Representative, spoke to a Green Left Weekly forum in Perth on October 28 on the struggle for democracy in South Africa. His talk is presented here slightly abridged. A recent national meeting of
Benefit for Sydney public radio's "Mr R & B" — The many admirers of Chris Dell, stalwart presenter of Sydney radio's premier black roots music program, Stormy Monday on 2MBS-FM, have joined forces to organise a medical benefit on his behalf. The
Underemployment: the de-skilling of young people By Sean Malloy With unemployment in Australia at the highest rate in half a century, among 15-19 year-olds it is a massive 31.2%. Bad as this is, it implies a further problem: a similarly large
Six-thirty a.m. Narita International Airport. JAL 722, a DC-10 from Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, lands. This plane is full of Indonesians and Malaysians. One look at them and you can guess they are newly arrived workers heading for jobs the Japanese
By Pip Hinman MELBOURNE — When 200,000 people take to the streets, as they did on November 10 despite the rain and patches of hail, the atmosphere is hard to describe. Photographs taken with a wide-angled lens or from helicopters can only
Mary Christmas Cartoonist Rona Chadwick, whose cartoons readers will have seen in Green Left Weekly, has a series of "Mary Xmas" cards especially suited to the holiday season. For a free catalogue of these and other designs, send a stamped,
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