Funding for Migrant Resource Centre halted
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — An emergency meeting of Brisbane Migrant Resource Centre members and supporters was held on August 6 to plan a response to the federal government's decision to terminate the
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Labor to 'trade off' native title rights
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Within a few days of taking their seats in parliament, the new Queensland Labor government introduced legislation to extinguish native title on 2900 pastoral leases. Premier
Watch out: here comes another 'reform'
We've had years of economic "reform" — deregulation and privatisation to benefit big business at the expense of the rest of us. We've had workplace "reform" — restrictions on workers' rights to organise
Jabiluka Blockade
In peace we coloured the camping groundin harmony we moved boldly on the tar.In dust and warm dry air we cared for our selves,in horror we looked on those faces of scornSun shaded blind eyed, stick figures of the long arm.
Why
Scam! Everything has a priceMusic and lyrics by Sean PeterBook by Barry LoweJunction Theatre CompanyQueen's Theatre, Playhouse Lane, AdelaideWednesday to Saturday, August 5 to 22$18/12 concession Review by Melanie Sjoberg
Corporate greed and
By Jim Green
The ALP has been badly embarrassed by Gareth Evans, who has stuck his foot in his mouth yet again. Evans wrote to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) acknowledging that the ALP "opposition's" "opposition"
That word
In July I attended my first Network of Women Students Australia conference. Having been an active feminist (but not a student) for years, I was amazed to hear the words chick and girl — demeaning words for women — in common usage
Democrats no alternative
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — Labor Party members and some media commentators are reporting that the Northcote by-election on August 15 will result in a high vote for One Nation. The by-election is taking place to allow high
By Peter Boyle
Resistance, the socialist youth organisation, has continued to receive widespread television, radio and newspaper coverage for its audacious campaigning against racism. Since Resistance called the initial round of high school
By Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans
More than 1.8 million people are currently behind bars in the US — the highest per capita incarceration rate in the history of the world. In 1995 alone, 150 new US prisons were built and filled. This monumental
Flushed with embarrassment
By Brandon Astor Jones
In prison, during shakedowns (cell searches), things like letters and such get misplaced and/or lost. The following bit of humour got separated from the envelope that it came in. I have no
Victorian nurses take action
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Nurses at the Royal Melbourne Hospital voted on August 5 to begin an industrial campaign to force the Kennett government to fund adequate staffing levels and patient care. On August 6, the
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