DENNIS HOWLETT is a founding member and Steering Committee member of the Action Canada Network and co-chair of the Network's Education and Communication Committee. During a recent visit to Sydney, he was interviewed by LISA MACDONALD for Â鶹´«Ã½.
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Indonesian student activist arrested
By Edi Budianto
JAKARTA — A leading student activist, Nuku Suleiman, was arrested in the early hours of Friday, November 26 in the office of Yayasan Pijar, a Jakarta student organisation. He has been
Last issue for 1993
This is the last issue of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly for the year. We have included a larger than usual number of feature articles to provide interesting reading throughout the holidays.
Our thanks and best holiday wishes to the
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
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
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
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 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,
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