Greens stretch Nile for NSW upper house With counting still under way to decide the important 15th seat in the NSW Legislative Council, the Greens are giving Call to Australia's Reverend Fred Nile a run for his money. With more than 50% of votes
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By Steve Painter Figures made available to primary industry and energy minister Simon Crean last week make it clear there can be no economic argument for opening new uranium mines in Australia. Any decision to change ALP policy will simply be
By Andrew Nette Who benefits from US bases in the Philippines? Not ordinary Filipinos. In the second of two articles, ANDREW NETTE reports on a visit to Olongapo, near the Subic Bay naval base. Fishing, which used to be the main source of
By David Jagger The real victims of the collapsing NSW rural economy are Aboriginal people. While they are keeping dying towns alive, they are often denied basic services, reports DAVID JAGGER, a researcher for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal
The following article is excerpted from Uranium Mining in Australia, a booklet to be published in the near future by the Movement Against Uranium Mining. MAUM can be contacted at PO Box K133, Haymarket NSW 2000, phone (02) 212 4538. No matter how
By John Tognolini Not long after his June 6 acquittal by the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal of all charges related to the Hilton bombing of 1978, TIM ANDERSON spoke to JOHN TOGNOLINI about the case, conditions in prison and what is still wrong with
By Debra Wirth Young people have been in the lead of struggles for progressive social change since the 1960s, when they were a major part of the movement against the Vietnam War. Out of that movement grew Resistance, a group for young people
By Rod Webb Buzz By Warren Coleman and Tyler Coppin Directed by Tyler Coppin Designed by Brian Thomson and Ross Wallace With Warren Coleman and Tyler Coppin Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, until July 7. Reviewed by Rod Webb Back in 1969
Gertrude Shope, newly elected president of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's League (WL) "grew up in the struggle". In the '50s she was secretary of the Federation of Transvaal Women. In 1966, she left the country, on the advice of the ANC,
Inserted in this issue of Green Left Weekly is the first issue of NETNEWS, a four-page newsletter prepared by Visionary Media in support of Pegasus Networks. Pegasus is a system of electronic communication. Subscribers — there are more than 1000
By Gavin Beltov Where are the unions going? It is difficult to discuss the present direction of the trade union movement as it is not clear the movement is capable of determining any direction at all. The movement is simply responding to the
No new mines, says McHugh By Stuart Wax SYDNEY — There is no economic or political logic to expanding uranium mining, Labor MP Jeanette McHugh told a meeting of the Eastern Suburbs Nuclear Disarmament Group on June 12. McHugh, a member of
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