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South African police open fire on residents

By Norm Dixon Television viewers around the world on February 6 may have thought they had accidentally tuned into a program of archival footage from South Africa's apartheid days: florid, bull-necked cops hidden behind menacing yellow armoured

Edna Ryan

Edna Ryan Edna Ryan, feminist social reformer, political activist and author passed away in Canberra in the early hours of Monday morning, February 10. Edna was born in 1904, the 10th of 12 children in the working class Sydney suburb of Pyrmont.

Strip mine in Tarkine

Strip mine in Tarkine By Ben Courtice HOBART — A mining lease has been granted for five hectares of land in the Tarkine wilderness in Tasmania's north-west, fulfilling environmentalists' predictions that the Tarkine road would open up the area

Life of Riley: This talkback thing

This talkback thingThis talkback thing My wife and I love your program. We listen to it every day. You are one truly great Australian, John ... Well, thank you. It's nice to know we are appreciated. You are. You are. And this talkback thing

Why is union membership falling?

By James Vassilopoulos It should come as little surprise that union membership has fallen yet again. The percentage of workers who are in unions has been declining for more than 20 years now. In August 1996, 31% of the work force were in unions,

Government bungles Austudy means test

Government bungles Austudy means test By Marina Cameron Changes to Austudy passed through the Senate last December have been estimated to have lowered or cancelled the payments of 60,000 students (a third of those who received the allowance last

Hindmarsh Island bridge bill defeated

By Carla Gorton The defeat of the federal government's Hindmarsh Island bridge bill in the Senate on February 10 has, for the moment, prevented it from overriding the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act. The Kumarangk

Resistance sets down plans

Resistance sets down plans By Lana Halpin BRISBANE — Robby Hartono, from the People's Democratic Party of Indonesia, spoke at a Resistance branch meeting on February 8, discussing the different conditions that Australian and Indonesian

Call to boycott Kakadu

Call to boycott Kakadu Lex Martin DARWIN — The Northern Territory government is currently pressuring the federal government to approve a second uranium mine at Jabiluka within Kakadu National Park. There are also plans to develop a third mine

The 'youth crime wave' myth

By Emma Webb and Shane McArthur "Law and order" has become a key issue in the lead up to the SA state elections, just as it did in previous elections in WA, NSW and Queensland. Liberal and Labor have taken a bipartisan line, promising to get tough

Art with a punch

Prints and drawings of the Weimar Republic, Germany 1918-1933RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, 344 Swanston St, City until March 1Art Gallery of South Australia, March 14-April 27Queensland Art Gallery, June 4-July 20Percy Tucker Gallery, Townsville, August

Environment movement opposes freehold leases

An alliance of Australian environment organisations has warned governments and industry leaders that extensive environmental damage across Australia's rangelands would follow the freeholding of pastoral leases, in addition to extinguishing native