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Bail Up!

SHORT STORY BY CRAIG CORMICK I went down to my local bank the other day — only to find it had been closed down. A large "For Lease" sign hung in the window and a small card on the door informed me where the closest branch not yet closed down

Forest issues in Tasmania

BY VIV MILEY & ALEX BAINBRIDGE Neil Smith was fined $7000 on October 27 for his part in a 1998 forest protest against the logging of virgin forest at Kooparoona Niara, also known as the Great Western Tiers. Smith was known at the time by the

'Broad Left' sinks left motions

BY SARAH CLEARY PERTH — The NUS West state conference was held here on November 26. The Labor Party right faction, Unity, had the majority of delegates. Annette Haeker, former Murdoch University education vice-president was elected to the

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News — Melbourne community TV,

Feminists take on Chivas

BY KYLIE MOON Sexist advertisements marketing Chivas Regal whiskey are the latest to be targeted by an anti-sexist graffiti campaign. Chivas says it is lapping up the “extra publicity”. The advertisement features a woman, minus her

STP workers: 'We stay till they pay'

BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN NEWCASTLE — A photo of STP bosses Stephen and Bradley Weeks with the caption "wanted for unpaid workers' entitlements of over $3 million" is appearing around Newcastle as part of the support campaign for 220 workers owed money

South African People's Poet fights on

BY DOROTHY FLYNN The Pretoria High Court's November 10 rejection of famed anti-apartheid poet Mzwakhe Mbuli's appeal demonstrates the difficulty of dismantling apartheid, especially when the system's engineers and foot soldiers have been retained.

Labor students take NUS NSW branch

BY PETER ROBSON SYDNEY — “Student organisers don't need to live in the areas that they represent, or attend the campuses that they organise. Regional organisers shouldn't be asked to live in the regions they organise, it would be like

Greenhouse gangsters and the environment movement

The failure of the November 13-24 international climate change conference at the Hague presents a major challenge for the environment movement. The seriousness and urgency of climate change has recently been highlighted by the Intergovernmental

Spotlight on Indonesia

School teachers demonstrate in Surabaya On November 29, 60 private school teachers from the Private School Teachers Communication Forum (FKGS) demonstrated at the Surabaya legislative council for improved legal rights and wages. FKGS leader Yudin

INDONESIA: Solidarity appeal to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly readers

Dear Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly readers, The 200 million people of Indonesia — the millions of factory and office workers, the tens of millions of farmers and the millions upon millions of unemployed and underemployed — face an impending social and

ALP rorts: just the tip of the iceberg

BY SUE BOLAND The number of senior ALP figures implicated in vote rorting and other shady internal party practices is increasing as middle and lower level ALP figures spill their guts to the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission inquiry headed by