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Jabiluka campaign gathers pace By Emma Webb ADELAIDE — Three anti-uranium activists are facing charges including assaulting a police officer, obstructing arrest and property damage following a December 13 rally and march against the Jabiluka
Australia Day 1999 Sheep shit in the South Pacific. With your baa lambs and your empty sky, you big fella stretched out in sun drying. Sunburnt. Sleepy. Empty. You lucky bastard of a country. You your own planet, your own boss cockie —
The killing of Lake Baikal By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — There are not many places in the world where you can leave an industrial plant in operation and doom hundreds of species of plants and animals to extinction. One such place is Siberia's Lake
By Arrow Tong and Tristan Miller Young people need a voice. We can't just hang around until we are 18, when we get to vote for the racist policies of Liberal or Labor. That is why last year Resistance organised the high school walkouts
By Claire Konkes HOBART — Last November, members of the Antarctica and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), the international environmental lobby group trying to keep fishing "honest" in the southern seas, left Hobart's Wrest Point Casino on a yacht
By Wendy Robertson Sydney — On January 17-18, around 150 students, a number of academics and staff gathered at the University of Technology Sydney for an anti-VSU ("voluntary student unionism") planning conference. The conference adopted four
By Claudine Holt Where did you buy your copy of Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly? Was it in Adelaide's Rundle Mall? Hobart's Salamanca Markets? Melbourne's Flinders Street Station? Or perhaps it was at protests against the dictatorship in Indonesia or the
Godfrey Bigot gets back to basics By Brad Pedersen The major parties are lining up for a law and order policy auction, each seeking to make the highest bid. They will trade in pseudo-solutions that prey on the public's fears and
Last year Resistance led the high school walkouts against racism. Here is what our opponents said about the rallies:   Shaun Nelson (Queensland One Nation MP): “Putting children into the line of fire ... is child abuse ... these
Review by Geoff Francis UnAustralian SongsBy David Beniuk and the UnAustraliansTo order, write to PO Box 29, Wollongong East 2520. Many contemporary Australian folk artists have fallen into a rut of churning out a succession of bland "feel good"
Down but not quite out in New York US Visiting Mr GreenBy Jeff BaronDirected by Sandra BatesEnsemble Theatre, Sydney Review by Brendan Doyle Another New York Jewish play, I hear you groan! Another play about the generation gap! Okay, but this
Landowners threaten to shut Ok Tedi mine Landowners near BHP's giant Ok Tedi gold and copper mine have threatened to close the mine if the Papua New Guinea government does not agree to review an agreement between the state and landowners by