Rainforest projects hit the road
By John Seed
LISMORE — Ruth Rosenhek and myself, from Lismore's Rainforest Information Centre (RIC), will be doing workshops and presentations in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Newcastle in the next month to
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East Timorese refugees: no end of trauma
By Jon Land
More than 200,000 East Timorese refugees are still languishing in militia-controlled camps across West Timor. United Nations personnel and representatives of human rights groups continue to be
Reclaiming the language of East Timor
By Jon Land
Standard Tetum-English DictionaryBy Dr Geoffrey HullAllen and Unwin$24.95 As the transition to independence begins in East Timor, a debate around language is assuming critical importance. What
Artists reclaiming the streets
By Bruce White
SYDNEY — "Reclaim the streets" is a striking phrase. It implies that some activities are now wrongfully excluded from the streets. It implies that someone imposed and maintains the exclusion, and it
The view from Dili
By Max Lane
DILI — Burned-out buildings and people on foot — these were the immediate impressions of East Timor's capital when I arrived on November 4 for a 36-hour visit. Jakarta-backed militias had done enormous damage
Tutorial sizes to be capped at 30 until autumn 2000;
Employment to be guaranteed for five staff crucial to a number of courses continuing;
No internet-only subjects to be offered;
Enrolments to be made not only via the internet;
No car
Thousands rally to save Leighton
By Anthony Benbow
FREMANTLE — "You all know what you see when you're sitting on the train or driving along Stirling Highway; you come over the hill to this glorious view over the beach and the ocean, and it
South Coast teachers bury government offer
By Andrew Hall
WOLLONGONG — Teachers in the northern suburbs of Wollongong buried a coffin outside Labor state MP David Campbell's electoral office on November 11. On the previous day their colleagues
By Jeremy Smith
The federal Coalition government has set its sights on the National Tertiary Education Industry Union as part of its anti-union offensive. The NTEU has suspected for some time that the government will come after it. Industrial
Winning elections by killing prisoners
Comment by Karen Fletcher
Between 1980 and 1998, the Australian prison population on any given day rose from an average of 9600 to an average of 19,906. The vast majority of prisoners serve sentences of less
Women's liberation discussed in Wollongong
By Nicole Hilder
WOLLONGONG — On November 6, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly held a women's liberation forum titled "It's Time to Get Angry Again". Dr Margaret Perrott from the Democratic Socialist Party outlined
By Natalie Zirngast
High school students will walk out on November 30 in Seattle to join a protest against the World Trade Organisation (see Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly page 20). The protest is being organised by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and
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