BY KERRIE BARRON
CANBERRA — After artwork depicting the plight of children living in detention was removed from a library, the Refugee Action Committee (RAC) has been overwhelmed by offers of support and interest in the display.
RAC
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
It is clear to many people, just from day-to-day experience, that public opinion has become enormously polarised on the issue of asylum seekers.
This polarisation reflects a positive trend — that while support for the
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — An August 8 High Court ruling on the Miriuwung and Gajerrong people's native title claim to their land in east Kimberley acknowledged that they retain limited traditional ownership rights.
The ruling is
BY SAM KING
BRISBANE — Students from the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University surrounded the UQ chancellery building on August 12. The 200-strong protest, organised by Campaign Against Fees
BY SAM OLUKOYA
ABITEYE, Niger delta — Abiteye village lies in the heart of the Niger Delta region. American oil giant ChevronTexaco has a gas plant and an oil flow station here.
But for its oil installations, the company's premises could pass
... and ain't i a woman: 'Affirmative action' in the ALP?
The National Committee of Review's report into the Labor Party, headed
by former prime minister Bob Hawke and former NSW premier Neville Wran,
has been angrily criticised by the
GLW's coverage of South Africa
Mazibuko Jara, the South African Communist Party's media spokesperson, states (Write On #504) that he is "rather surprised that Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly seems to have taken a stance not to engage the SACP in a comradely and
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Public hospitals in Queensland face another 24-hour strike within weeks unless the state government boosts its wages offer to non-nursing staff. Union delegates for Queensland Health employees on August 15 resolved to
BY PETER SYKES
[Former Queensland Democrats state leader Peter Sykes knows all about compliance committees and getting the boot for speaking his mind. Now a veteran of the Australian Greens, he follows up his April 1998 GLW article which asked,
BY DALE T. MCKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — Not far from the predominately working-class Northwest
Province town of Rustenburg, where the South African Communist Party (SACP)
recently held its 11th congress on July 24-28, lies the garish ramparts
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — On August 15, 80 people attended an information night at
the Tom Mann Theatre to learn more about the upcoming Sydney Social Forum,
which will be held on September 21-22 at the University of Technology,
Sydney. Two
BY JOE MCDONALD
I attended the [Western Australian] state conference of the ALP back in June. All in all, I've got to say that it was a pretty disillusioning experience — and it left me feeling frustrated as hell!
So I went back home and in
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