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Military noise muted for Territory elections

By Tim E. Stewart DARWIN — The campaign to have military air exercises removed from the city has scored its first victory. With Territory elections set for June 4, the Singaporean Air Force was temporarily moved to Amberley air base

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Privatised information I now realise why the Brown government has been denigrating public servants at every opportunity since the election. It was so that the rest of the state's working people would more readily accept the impending savage cuts

Xanana Gusmao: fighting for freedom with words

By Craig Cormick "Gusmao's bullets are always his thoughts." — Agio Pereira, East Timor Relief Association One year ago, on May 21, the East Timorese resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao, was found guilty of plotting against the Indonesian

Not doing what she does best

No‰l Joan Baez Vanguard Hits/Greatest & Others Joan Baez Vanguard Reviewed by Allen Myers I am told that someone recollects, they think, that Joan Baez has become quite a political conservative — even supporting Reagan in the '80s,

Migrant women at a disadvantage

VIVIENNE PORZSOLT of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly spoke with CAROLINE ALCORSO of the Association of Non English Speaking Background Women of Australia. Alcorso is one of the authors of a study, Bargained Away: Enterprise Bargaining and Non English-speaking

Kidnapping of Aboriginal youths

SAM WATSON of the Aboriginal Legal Service in Brisbane was interviewed for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly by John Nebauer on May 20. Can you outline what happened on the night in question? On Tuesday, May 10, between 3 and 4am, three Aboriginal

Water supply workers strike

Water supply workers strike By Chris Spindler ADELAIDE — A mass meeting of more than 700 Engineering and Water Supply (E&WS) workers on May 20 voted to strike from Friday May 20 to Monday against the government's audit commission report,

Constitutional crisis in Croatia

By Jolyon Campbell A constitutional crisis has been precipitated in Croatia by the growth of organised opposition to the regime of Franjo Tudjman and the desertion of parliamentary members of the ruling Croatia Democratic Forum (HDZ) to form a

Hopes rise for whale sanctuary

By Eileen Herbert Conservationists around the world are expecting a landmark victory this week as the 46th annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting convenes in Mexico from May 23 to decide on a proposed Antarctic whale sanctuary.

A part of the dance

Doing the block Written by John Romeril Music by Irene Vela Directed by David Carlin Thursday to Saturday until May 28 George Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre, Melbourne Reviewed by Sofi Chapman The "block" in question is a Melbourne

Producing the alternative media

By Frank Noakes Rupert Murdoch's News Limited (more accurately Limited News) is one of the biggest media empires the world has known. Its Australian chief executive, Ken Cowley, told the parliamentary inquiry into the print media: "We take the

Ok Tedi: PNG and BHP run scared

Ok Tedi: PNG and BHP run scared By Frank Enright The Papua New Guinea government will attempt to legislate retrospectively to protect itself and the Australian mining company BHP from a $4 million environmental lawsuit being brought by