BRISBANE — One hundred people attended a public meeting on March 6 organised by the Biala and Wacol support group to express disgust at the state government's slashing of services at the Biala alcohol and drug detoxification centre. Speakers
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By Pip Hinman
Thousands of feminists took to the streets around the country on March 12 to mark International Women's Day. The biggest rally, 5000, was held in Sydney, and large numbers of women gathered in other capital cities as well as
Normal relations
"[There is] a full resumption of normal relations. I have not spoken to him since." — Former Liberal leader John Howard, on the "end" of a dispute with current leader John Hewson.
Spoilsport
"The [NSW] Police Commissioner,
Kennett's party votes him 'innocent'
By Karl Miller
Melbourne — Eighteen months ago, Victorians voted the Liberal Party, led by Jeff Kennett, into state government. Labor's disastrous record allowed the Liberals to win merely by claiming
SAM WATSON is the president of the Aboriginal Legal Service in Brisbane. He was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by SUJATHA FERNANDES.
What forms of discrimination do Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders face in the Australian legal system?
Vasili Manikakis
By Michael Karadjis
and Kyrn Stevens
Family, friends the Greek community and the entire progressive movement suffered a tragic loss on February 28 with the death of Vasili Manikakis in Athens, where he had been living
International Women's Day
Last Saturday thousands of women around Australia and internationally marched to mark International Women's Day. It is a tradition which began with a strike by women garment workers in 1908 for better pay and working
Mugger sues victim
Less than one month after the decision by the Clinton administration to lift its trade embargo against Vietnam, the US State Department announced on March 1 that it is seeking compensation from Cambodia and Vietnam for
By Allen Myers
SYDNEY — Death of a Nation, John Pilger's new film on East Timor, was launched with showings at the Mandolin and Valhalla cinemas here on March 10. A party following the launch raised funds to support the East Timorese people's
By Martin Khor Kok Peng
In mid-April, trade and commerce ministers from more than 100 countries will sign the Final Act of the Uruguay Round in a glittering ceremony at Marrakesh in Morocco. They will be putting the seal on a seven-year-long
By Frank Enright
Before the damming of the Franklin River became a national issue in the early '80s, Comalco would boast that its aluminium smelter at Bell Bay in northern Tasmania consumed as much power as the city of Adelaide. Although the
The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia
By Frank Cain
Spectrum Publications, 1993. 300 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Every radical lefty's heart has a soft spot for the Wobblies (the Industrial
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