Forced labour While people are being transmigrated to East Timor, several hundred young East Timorese workers have been brought to Java with promises of training and good jobs, but found themselves working in factories under appalling conditions.
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Young Marriage An amendment to the federal Marriages Act of 1961, which has just come into effect, has raised the age at which young women can marry from 16 to 18. This makes the law for women the same as for men. Between the ages of 16 and 18,
By Peter Gellert MEXICO CITY — On a busy, crowded street here, among thousands of US products offered by ambitious street vendors, one finds dietetic chocolate fudge soda. In case you're wondering how something that contains chocolate fudge can
UTS students protest By Carolyn Minchin SYDNEY — About 300 students at Sydney's University of Technology stormed and occupied the vice-chancellor's office on September 9 to protest against the allocation of $2 million of university funds for a
By Dick Nichols SYDNEY — The long-running campaign by the Australian Chamber of Manufactures to turn the dispute at the Vista Paper Products plant in outer Sydney into a precedent-setting smashing of working conditions is beginning to run out of
By Norm Dixon Many South Africans are convinced that the massacre of 23 Inkatha supporters on September 8 was carried out by covert elements of the South African Defence Forces. They believe the aim was to reignite violence within the black
High tech lays Kevin low Because of a printer cartridge with a mind of its own, Kevin Healy was unable to send The Week That Was this week. The weekly Week That Was will return next week (technology permitting).
By Peter Annear BONN — Die Grünen — the German Green Party — aim to establish a "red-green" government following the next all-German elections in 1994, according to party national spokesperson Ludger Volmer, who has proposed seeking a
By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — The flashy venue (the World Trade Centre), the grossly blown-up images of speakers on a large video screen on the stage and the immaculate attention to appearance rather than substance said much about an ACTU congress
By Norm Dixon The Republic of Bougainville was accepted as a new members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) at its recent meeting in The Hague. The decision represents a small but important precedent in Bougainville's
Trading in death and destruction "Australians Trading in Death and Destruction" is the slogan used by the Renegade Activists in their campaign against the military equipment exhibition AIDEX 91. This arms bazaar is to be held in Canberra in
By Michael Läwy It is not always easy to fit the Vatican into the international political map: allied with Reagan in the fight against Sandinista Nicaragua, it condemned Bush's Gulf War; defender of human rights against dictatorships, it is
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