By Norm Dixon
PNG's newest gold mine — the Tolukuma Gold Mine in the Goilala mountains in Central Province — is the latest site of conflict between traditional land-holders and an Australian mining company. On August 5, rioting broke out
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By Bernard Wunsch
BRISBANE — Independence in the Pacific was the theme of a forum organised by the socialist youth organisation Resistance on the University of Queensland on August 17. The guest speaker was Junior Hakaoro, a Cook Island
Memorial meeting for Ernest Mandel By John Percy
SYDNEY — More than 90 people filled the Resistance Centre here on August 20 to honour the memory of Ernest Mandel, world-renowned Marxist scholar and revolutionary who died in Belgium on July
Battling for credibility John Howard squeezed as much mileage as he could from an invitation to a Collingwood football club dinner recently. Asked whether he wouldn't feel more comfortable at a Carlton club dinner, Howard retorted that if
By Andrew Watson
BRISBANE — A stop-work meeting and rally of armoured car workers here on August 23 resolved to strike indefinitely from August 28, unless the state government responds to their demands for an inquiry into the armoured car and
By Gerry Harant
The story goes that some years ago, when Graham Richardson was still the ALP's chief numbers man and head-kicker, he was asked, on one of the numerous occasions when the ALP leaders had again ignored the wishes of the party's
By Lisa Macdonald
The world today is dominated by the fact that, despite human beings' capacity for rational thought, our society is thoroughly irrational. The issue of nuclear weapons provides a good example. Society has developed and harnessed a
By Sally Mitchell
DARWIN After two months of negotiations which ended in a deadlock, on August 25 Power and Water Authority unions took their wages dispute with the government to the Industrial Relations Commission.
Work bans have been
A brief selective review of some significant and often neglected works from the culture of dissent. Point of Departure (1986) When Jean Devanny (1894-1962) wrote this memoir, she was no longer a member of the Communist Party of Australia. As a
Thinking of you, Amelia "The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal ... [then] belch, and it wouldn't remind you of anything." — Redd Foxx
Sensory deprivation can cause unusual, even strange, responses. Prisoners are among the
WASHINGTON — Just one month after South Africa announced to the world that it would not import foreign waste under any circumstances, a 500 ton shipment of hazardous zinc smelter residues from the US is wending its way to South Africa. The wastes
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