By Stephen Kelly The income of Australia's wealthiest people has trebled in the last 10 years while the number of social security recipients has doubled. The creation of an underclass has been exacerbated by speculation caused by financial
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Bongo Fury By Scott Lewington MELBOURNE — Top Australian percussionist Ray Pereira has assembled some of the city's finest young percussionists to produce a delicious taste of Cuba. Basing itself on Afro-Cuban rhythms and chants such as
By Karen Fredericks SYDNEY — Central Australian band Amunda launched Larrikin Records' release of their second album, Civilised World, at the Rose Shamrock and Thistle Hotel on September 30. Despite a slow start, foldback problems and some
Blockade cost is $40 billion According to Radio Havana, a new study shows Cuba has lost nearly $40 billion since the United States imposed its economic blockade on the island 30 years ago. A report by the Central Planning Board, based on data
By Kristian Whittaker CANBERRA — Four Aboriginal activists — Isabel Coe, Harold Williams, Sonya Brown and Ian Williams — were recently convicted but not sentenced on trespassing charges resulting from the 80-strong peaceful occupation of
Comment by Tony Smith In the mid-80s, an Australian Liberal Party leader addressed members of the Jewish community in Sydney. This politician was quoted in the major dailies as saying that the gates of Nazi concentration camps were not opened
NSW anti-union attack stalls By Bernie Brian WOLLONGONG — The first attempt by the NSW government to charge trade union officials under its new anti-union laws has stalled. South Coast Labour Council secretary Paul Matters and Australian
Church focus on choice The motions passed by a majority of the 700 delegates to its synod on September 27 make the NSW Uniting Church the first traditional church in Australia to support a woman's right to choose abortion. The motions
The US Congress tightened the economic stranglehold on Cuba on September 24 when it approved legislation designed to close loopholes in the 30-year blockade. Presented by Democrat Robert Torricelli and dubbed the "Democracy for Cuba Act", the bill
By Pip Hinman MELBOURNE — About 200 people attended a three-day Ecopolitics VI conference from September 25. Talks and panels covered a range of topics from environmental philosophy to politics and social movements. Although the attendance
By Philippa Skinner SYDNEY — "Fuckin' dykes!" This outburst was the first in a string of verbal abuse and physical threats my companion and I experienced after we left the Bondi train station and were walking together through the adjacent
Labor punished Now that Victorian Labor's calamitous 10-year rein is over, what are the lessons that need to be drawn from the experience? A big proportion of Victorian voters justifiably chose to punish the Labor Party for the disastrous
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