By Jon Lamb
MANILA — The campaign launch for the Free all Political Prisoners Movement (FPPM) was held at the University of the Philippines Diliman Campus on October 19.
The campaign hopes to win the release of some 309 political
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Glowing pains
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — In the bizarre world of capitalism, lobbying for more nuclear waste is portrayed as rational. The Court government is pushing to establish a national nuclear waste dump in Western Australia's
BRISBANE — Hundreds of reports of physical abuse and neglect of children in Queensland were not investigated properly last year because of state government under-funding, the State Public Service Federation said on October 30. The SPSF said
'Best yet'
By Sean Lennon
MELBOURNE — "The 1994 Festival of Jewish Cinema has surpassed any previous festival of which I was director", is how festival director Les Rabinowicz describes the program and roster of overseas guests for this
Comment by Lisa Macdonald and Pip Hinman
We were looking forward to going to a Reclaim the Night march in Sydney. After all, last year's march was a great success.
While there had been relatively little advertising, up to 6000 women of all
By Max Anderson
LONDON — On October 29, a day marked by constant drizzle and the occasional heavy shower, thousands of people marched from the Temple tube station on the Embankment to Trafalgar Square, where a CND (Campaign for Nuclear
By Stephen Robson
From 1949 until 1972, the Liberal Party held federal government. Following the decision of the powers that be to terminate the Whitlam government in 1975, the Liberal Party again governed until 1983.
By this time, the
By Max Lane
On November 12, thousands of East Timorese and their supporters around the world will be demonstrating in commemoration of the massacre of peaceful protesters in Dili in 1991. Around the world, people will be demanding that Indonesia
By Lisa Macdonald
SYDNEY — The Democratic Socialist Electoral League (DSEL) has announced that it will be standing at least two candidates in the NSW state elections in March 1995.
Karen Fletcher, a well-known feminist and previous
By Frank Eckardt
As the recession bites, more people are living on the streets. For 10 days I trudged across parts of Tokyo, observing and talking to the people who live on its streets. In the absence of official statistics, I wanted to see the
Women in refuges
By Maria Caltabiano
Women in refuges who are escaping domestic violence may not be able to escape the government knowing all about them if the newly proposed data collection scheme goes ahead.
Refuges are funded
Aborigines condemn Land Acquisition Fund
By John Nebauer
BRISBANE — Thirty people attended a meeting called by the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA) on November 2 to discuss the implication of the federal
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