For almost a week, thousands of East Timorese youths have taken to the streets of Dili, East Timor in a series of violent clashes with Indonesian security forces.
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By Maureen Baker and Sean Magill The 1991 Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody made 339 recommendations to reduce the rate of Aboriginal imprisonment and the federal government allocated $400 million over five years to implement them. Four
By Carla Gorton ADELAIDE — The state Liberal government's Hindmarsh Island Bridge Royal Commission, more accurately described as "Brown's Inquisition", has cost SA taxpayers more than $1.8 million. Recently the commission, now more exposed as a
FunkensteinTim HopkinsABC MusicReviewed by Jenny Long This album — Hopkins' second — takes the mantle of both acid jazz and funk. Its motivating force is Hopkins' unbridled saxophone, combining with Mike Nock's sometimes flying, sometimes solid
US exports banned pesticides At least 26 million kilograms of "dirty dozen" pesticides were exported from the US between 1991 and 1994, according to information released by the Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education (FASE). The
On the box Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm
By Sarah Stephen CANBERRA — Student Underground, an anti-nuclear magazine produced by and for students, was launched outside Narrabundah College on October 13. ACT education minister Bill Stefaniak said on local television news that he was
By John Percy Ten years after the Russian Revolution that was the inspiration for the formation of the Communist Party of Australia, much had changed in the Soviet Union. Bureaucratism was rampant, Lenin was dead, and Stalin was rapidly pushing aside
By Stan Lee The small, usually sedate coastal town of Victor Harbor on the Fleurieu Peninsula 80 kms south of Adelaide was this year's venue for South Australia's annual Folk and Music Festival between September 29 and October 2. Despite the wind and
By Karl Miller MELBOURNE — The $1.7 billion CityLink project, a road privatisation scheme to connect several existing traffic-logged roads with electronic tollways, is on hold. Transurban won the contract some months ago. However, last week the
Recent public statements by Prime Minister Paul Keating and foreign minister Gareth Evans denying the refugee status of East Timorese who have fled their Indonesian-occupied country to Australia, is yet another despicable episode in the federal Labor
By Anthony Benbow PERTH — The WA union movement's campaign against the Liberal government's anti-union laws moved up another notch on October 15 with the launch of a "week of discontent". The week will involve union action both here and interstate.
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