By Lisa Renfrey
The federal ALP's elaborate manoeuvres to clean up the political mess it created with the issuing of 11 woodchip export licences in December has only fuelled the anti-woodchipping campaign around the country.
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Young money-maker of the year
On invasion day each year we are treated to fireworks and a set of Australia Day Honours. The conferring of these honours is decided by some anonymous committee, and their recipients are usually a politically
Skyrail activists arrested for pot
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — A picket was held outside the parliamentary executive buildings on January 17 to protest against the arrest of Manfred Stephens, an anti-Kuranda Skyrail activist who had
By John Queripel
MANILA — Few people would have thought that just eight years after the 1986 People's Power revolution, the spectre of martial law would again hang over the Philippines. Yet several indications are that this could be the case.
The following "Challenge to political leaders of countries in the Indian Ocean and Asian regions" was issued by the Third Indian Ocean Regional Trade Union Conference, held in Perth at the end of November.
We, the workers of the Indian Ocean and
Midsumma festival
MELBOURNE — The seventh annual Midsumma gay and lesbian festival kicked off on January 21 with a giant street party in Fitzroy's fashionable Brunswick St.
The party was a first for the festival, which has progressed from
We in that factory
we were lifting heavy doors
we were risking our backs, our fingers and our souls
we were playing deaf against the English insults
We in that factory
we were lifting injustice and exploitation
we were getting dirty
I don't want to talk about it
(No Eso No Se Habla)
Directed by Maria Luisa Bemburg
Written by Maria Luisa Bemburg and Jorge Goldenburg
Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Luisina Brando
Opens at the Dendy, George St, Sydney and Kino Cinema in
Trust me
"I accept that I will never be leader of the Liberal Party again. It is out of the question." — John Howard in May 1994.
Except from the leader
"In the future I don't think that the party should tolerate outbursts which are
Chomsky in Canberra
By Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — Noam Chomsky addressed the National Press Club here on January 24, speaking on East Timor as a microcosm of world order. The invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in 1975, he said, has required
By Carlos Tautz
RIO de JANEIRO — There are tanks in the streets. The army is ready for combat. Masked soldiers, armed with modern guns, violently search even pregnant women and children of eight and nine years old. Those who don't prove they
Looking out: Queen Nzinga
By Brandon Astor Jones
Like just about every other European nation, the Portuguese waged war upon blacks in Africa. Contrary to popular historical belief, the various black peoples of Africa have been defending
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