Strange, that
"The image has not been a good or helpful one. It's all about spooks and reds under the bed and that kind of thing." — ASIO head David Sadleir on public perceptions of his organisation.
Rushed
"Frankly speaking, we just don't
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As recently as 100 years ago, white people in America committed diabolically criminal acts — and still do — against humanity in general, and against people of colour in particular, routinely.
Often, on mere whims, white men, women and even
White ribbons
The small contingent of Men Against Sexual Assault (MASA) who stood beside the route of the Sydney Reclaim the Night march with their banner this year, received a warm very welcome, at least from the women marching near me. It was
Did they run or were they driven?
Last week US State Department officials announced — with glee — that Cuba's future is "a prolonged, slow decline waiting for a catastrophe". They remained coy about their commitment to ensuring this becomes
By John Nebauer
and Kerry Vernon
BRISBANE — The Criminal Justice Commission's public inquiry into the death in police custody of Aboriginal dancer Daniel Yock, 18, began here on November 24.
The original police account was that they
By Frank Noakes
Charles Dickens writing during and of early industrial Britain (those glorious days extolled by Margaret Thatcher et al), relates that entry to public parks in the industrial towns was prohibitively expensive, except on Sunday
By Edward W. Said
The "historic breakthrough" by the PLO and the Israeli government signals a new phase of reconciliation between two enemies. But it also leaves Palestinians very much the subordinates, with Israel still in charge of East
By Bernie Brian
WOLLONGONG — The trial of two South Coast trade union officials on criminal charges, arising from a picket line at a Kiama construction site, has been adjourned to February.
South Coast Labour Council (SCLC) secretary Paul
By Karen Fredericks
Douglas Bruce Scott died in Berrimah jail in Darwin early in the morning of July 5, 1985. A police inquest and the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody both ruled it was suicide. But Doug's widow, Lettie Scott,
Jamaica?
Thanks for you article about race relations in Cuba, by Edwin and Jo Hoffman (GLW #124).
I would like at this point to bring in little Jamaica, only 90 miles south of Cuba, where I lived for many years. In both Haiti and Jamaica
By Steve Rogers
CANBERRA — Defeat of the incumbents in the ACT branch Public Sector Union elections has sent a shiver down the spine of the local ALP officialdom. With around 21,000 members, the PSU is the largest union in the ACT. It is not
All Hearts on Deck: A Personal Account of the 1981-82 Campaigns of the Sea Shepherd
By Frankie Seymour
Canberra: Boris Books, 1993. 180 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"Stop ship and prepare for boarding", ordered the captain of
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