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Join the fight for Aboriginal heritage

By Doreen Kelly and Chris Martin SYDNEY — Activists campaigning for the preservation of a building of historic and cultural significance to Aboriginal people have reacted angrily to a decision by NSW planning minister Craig Knowles to allow

Conference says organic agriculture can provide food security

More than 1000 farmers, scientists, government officials and others from 92 countries convened in Copenhagen in August for the 11th Scientific Conference of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM). The conference

Behind the push for a GST

By Jorge Andres Arguably, the only submission to the National Tax Reform Summit really sympathetic to the needs of the working majority was United Distillers' proposal for a cut in the excise for rum. Apart from that, all "serious" parties

Urban fairytale

Beautiful ThingDirected by Hettie MacDonaldWritten by Jonathan HarveyFeaturing Glen Berry, Linda Henry, Scott Neal, Tameka Empson, Ben DanielsReviewed by Giovanna Castellani This aptly titled film is not only beautiful but leaves you replenished and

High school students protest youth

By Paul Howes SYDNEY — The recently formed United Secondary Students Union of NSW is calling on high school students across Sydney to walk out of school on October 22 to protest against the state government's "street safety" legislation. The

The political theatre of Errol O'Neill

BRISBANE — ERROL O'NEILL is well known in theatre circles here. As well as being an actor, he has established himself as a playwright for main stage theatre. After working with the well-known touring company Popular Theatre Troupe until its demise

CPSU leaders 'forget' to count DEETYA resolution

CPSU leaders 'forget' to count DEETYA resolution By Bruce Marlowe Over the last two weeks, Community and Public Sector Union members in the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs have been voting on how to respond to the

Another threat to women's right to choose

By Lisa Macdonald Few people are aware of the existence of the Model Criminal Code Officers' Committee (MCCOC), yet it may be about to change many women's lives. Established in 1991, this standing committee of attorneys general of Australia

Which way forward for unions?

By Pat Brewer CANBERRA — A seminar held here on September 8 heard two very different views on how unions should prepare to meet the changes proposed in the Workplace Relations Bill currently before parliament. Craig Simmons, ACT organiser with

Papua New Guineans organise against structural adjustment

PETI LAFANAMA is chairperson of the recently formed PNG Watch-Council for Socio-Economic Justice, a coalition of non-government organisations and grassroots activist groups opposed to the World Bank and PNG government's structural adjustment program.

School of Americas taught torture and murder

On September 20, the US Defense Department released documents showing that from 1982 to 1991 the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) trained Latin American military officers with US Army intelligence manuals advocating the blackmail, torture and

The ALP in opposition

By Peter Boyle Australian Labor Party in governments in the 1980s and 1990s — state or federal — were decidedly conservative. Like all other old social democratic parties, the ALP has moved to the right and adopted the capitalists' neo-liberal