By Rupen Savoulian
PERTH — A 10,000-square kilometre native title claim covering the Perth metropolitan area has successfully passed the federal government's stringent registration test. A number of native title claimants united their efforts to
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Jesús Montané Oropesa, 1923-1999
By Neville Spencer
Cuban revolutionary Jesús Montané, a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, died of a respiratory disease on May 7. He was one of the few
By Karl Miller
The federal government's Online Services Bill, a harsh internet censorship law announced by federal communications minister Richard Alston on April 21, is proceeding rapidly through parliament and may be passed before July. This year
Organising the working class
WOLLONGONG — Fifty people attended a meeting organised by Broad Left titled "Organising the Working Class" on May 16. Speakers included Dick Nichols from the Democratic Socialist Party, Anna Pha from the Communist
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Drugs: how 'zero tolerance' costs lives
By Will Williams
The NSW Drug Summit, called after the state Labor government closed down a needle exchange in Redfern before the last state election, met May 17-21 to discuss the problem of drug abuse and
By Sue Boland
"Crime against democracy" was how the Australian's May 15-16 editorial described Senator Brian Harradine's May 14 decision to reject the goods and services tax (GST) as "inherently regressive". Other newspaper editorials and
By Nick Fredman
LISMORE — A May 19 stop-work meeting of more than 200 unionists — the largest at Southern Cross University (SCU) for many years — unanimously rejected an enterprise bargaining agreement offer and discussed possible industrial
By Michael Karadjis
A declaration condemning the NATO attack on Serbia was released in
April by 17 organisations which have long opposed the Serb national chauvinist
regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Their stance reveals how little NATO's
Let's hear it for fools!
@column int = Aboard this ship of fools you will find all kinds: the Shakespearean fool, the village idiot, the holy fool, the simpleton, the moral fool, the oinseach, the amadan, Mad Sweeney, an pleota, an bobarzn agus
By Norm Dixon
The Fiji Labour Party (FLP), the key partner in Fiji's coalition government deposed almost 12 years ago in a military coup led by Sitiveni Rabuka, scored a big win in Fiji's May 8-15 general election. For the first time, voting was
Murder and Ireland's 'peace process'
By Stuart Ross
The Pat Finucane Centre in Derry has recently published a 50-page report into the circumstances leading to the murder of one of Ireland's most prominent human rights lawyers, Rosemary Nelson. On
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