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"People are coming from all over the place, and when there is a mass of people gathered, anything can happen." — An Indonesian National Police spokesperson on anti-Suharto demonstrations.
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The growing protests throughout Indonesia against the Suharto dictatorship are worrying for the imperialist powers.
Due to the failure of the IMF package, foreign investors are leaving Indonesia in droves. The May 7 Financial Review editorial
By Linda Kaucher
The news that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) will use $10 million from AusAID for a famine relief program in West Papua (Irian Jaya) is welcome. Such an effort has been needed for many months. Ninety defence personnel, three
Free speech attacked
ADELAIDE — Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly sellers on May 8 were ordered to stop selling the paper at the Adelaide Central Markets. Since its inception, Â鶹´«Ã½ has had a presence at the markets. Distributors were given no convincing
An apt ALP hero for the times
Nice TryBy Shane MaloneyText Publishing, 1998. 312 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Murray Whelan, senior adviser to the Labor minister for water supply and the arts, is in more trouble than Mandrake again.
Labor-Democrats debate a non-event
By Ruth Ratcliffe
BRISBANE — On May 5, the University of Queensland ALP and Australian Democrats clubs presented a debate about "Labour, Unionism and Change: Perspectives on Industrial Relations Reform —
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Shooting themselves in the foot
By Brandon Astor Jones
"As part of the struggle for equality, feminists have ... argued that ... women's physical and mental health and safety sometimes require male-free zones. There is no ...
People suffer from IMF 'medicine'
By Edwin Gozal
Foreign minister Alexander Downer has made it clear that Australian government approaches to the IMF and World Bank have been designed to ensure that the situation in Indonesia remains "as
By Martin Iltis
ADELAIDE — On May 6, two speaking engagements by federal industrial relations minister Peter Reith attracted boisterous, noisy crowds of maritime workers and other activists. "Reith, you're past your Dubai date", one placard
Kennett attacks public servants
The Victorian government is preparing another attack on public servants via a new Public Sector Management and Employment Bill. The Community and Public Sector Union only viewed the bill on its presentation to
NSW stolen children activities launched
SYDNEY — Two dozen of 60 Sorry Day sponsors helped launch the NSW activities
for the inaugural May 26 National Stolen Generation Sorry Day on May 6,
at the Opera House.
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