By Allen Myers
Australian government funds for "human rights" activities in Cambodia are providing direct support to the political project of a right-wing Chilean Australian who is an "honorary member" of a Khmer Rouge front.
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Kevin Gilbert, Aboriginal artist, poet, playwright and activist, died on April 1, in Canberra, after a long battle with emphysema. Kevin's daughter, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, prepared the following tribute to her father, in poetry and prose.
Kevin
-2>MELBOURNE — The Hazardous Materials Action Group (HAZMAG) is seeking help in raising funds to send two of its activists to the national convention of the United States Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, to be held in Virginia May 15-17. The
By Ignatius Kim
SYDNEY — In marked contrast to the country's "leaders", who failed to notice the environmental crisis during the recent federal election, concern is alive and well among young people.
Demanding environmental justice for
The Crying Game
Directed by Neil Jordan
Reviewed by Catherine Brown and Frank Noakes
Reihana Mohideen's favourable review of the The Crying Game (GLW #093) asks whether Jordan's film does a disservice to the Irish struggle in his
By Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — In Premier Jeff Kennett's April 6 mini-budget, state education funding was cut by a further $244 million (6.4%). This follows an $86 million cut, closure of 55 schools and sacking of all school cleaners, after
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Russian officials have confirmed that plutonium salts were among the radioactive materials blasted into the atmosphere when a nuclear fuel reprocessing installation in western Siberia exploded on April 6. Although
Bases protests will continue
Bill Doyle, a Peace Action Committee (PeACe) member and organiser of the Nurrungar protest, spoke to Green Left Weekly's Liam Mitchell about the recent demonstration at Nurrungar and the future plans of the
Pilbara unions dispute over members
By Geoff Spencer
PERTH — The United Mine Workers Union (UMWU) says its decision to recruit in the Pilbara is aimed at re-establishing unionism in the region after eight years of steady decline in
By Norm Dixon
"When we, as one people, act together decisively, with discipline and determination, nothing can stop us ... Let us rededicate ourselves to bringing about the democracy he fought for all his life: democracy that will bring real,
'Left Connection' formed
By Brian T. Carey
The 140 people who had survived as members of the New Left Party decided at their dissolving conference on March 20-21 to replace that organisation with a body called Left Connection. This would
ALP
Janet Burstall is dead right! (Write On, GLW, April 7). Experimenting with political possibilities outside the ALP can only lead to disaster (e.g. the drift of preferences). Socialists should accept that fact and stop dabbling in
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