Brisbane Watch-house picket
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — One hundred people gathered outside the Brisbane City Watch-house on Sunday, January 16, the same lockup to which Daniel Yock was brought after being arrested late last year.
The
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By Frank Enright
"The war on Bougainville is the longest and bloodiest in the Pacific since World War II, and has cost thousands of lives. Little is known about the five year war because of a blockade imposed by Papua New Guinea on the island
The Coming Out Show — The Life of Gloria Lee, an 85 year-old whose mother was an Aboriginal woman of the Western Arrente people; her father was Chinese. This programs follows Gloria through her childhood in Alice Springs, her adolescence in China
Ozone loss to get worse
A major report by scientists for the British Department of the Environment, published on January 20, shows that "ozone loss is expected to become worse before recovery occurs" and that HCFCs (CFC replacements) will extend
By Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh
A few hundred TNCs [transnational corporations] dominate the four intersecting webs of global commercial activity on which the fate of the world economy rests. Such TNCs exert a more profound influence on
Cuba, Colombia sign health accords
HAVANA — The governments of Cuba and Colombia signed several important cooperation accords in the area of public health on January 10.
According to one of the agreements, Colombia will purchase 2.5
CAPOW conference
By Kath Tucker
The first conference of the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women (CAPOW) was very successful, conference organiser Ingrid Fitzgerald told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly.
CAPOW is a network of
During the keynote speech he gave to the Newcastle Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly annual dinner dance last year, Tim Anderson remarked on the dominance of the world news at the time with stories of floods in the US. Why was this, he mused? Was it that the floods
Israeli peace movement revives
In the euphoria created in Israel by the September 13 handshake on the White House lawn, most of the peace groups in Israel "demobilised". Peace Now, Yesh Gvul ("There is a limit" — soldiers refusing operations
By John Tognolini
"Objectivity" and "balance" are terms used by many journalists to cop out of stating the obvious: that Aboriginal people in Australia are the victims of institutionalised racism from police and prison officers, and that these
To mark the 206th anniversary of the beginning of the European invasion of Australian, we asked a range of people from the Aboriginal community to comment on what was or wasn't accomplished in the International Year of Indigenous People, and on the
By Francisco Sobrino
BUENOS AIRES — On July 13, 1992, Time proclaimed "Menem's miracle" and showed the Argentine president as a shining sun.
Time was not alone: the entire imperialist media have been very satisfied with the way Carlos
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