Professor Tony Vinson, former head of the NSW prisons system before he was sacked by the Wran Labor government, works in the Department of Social Work at the University of New South Wales. An outspoken advocate for progressive reform of the criminal
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Beyond the elections
At a time of rising anger against the two major parties, in particular the Labor Party, many people are looking around for a progressive alternative. The many Labor betrayals on so many important issues will, we hope, result
WA Legal Service resists law and order push
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — The WA Court Liberal government boasts a number of "firsts" in the law-and-order game. It was the first to conduct organised police operations against "loitering youth"
Protest for East Timor
By Jon Lamb
ADELAIDE — A noisy and vibrant crowd protested against military aid to Indonesia outside the Australian Defence Force Recruiting office here on March 17. The action was organised by Resistance, Aksi —
We have to rely on ourselves
Kamala Emanuel
Women are still facing oppression, manifest in many ways, in spite of the undisputed gains of the first and second waves of feminism. Domestic work is still carried out mostly by women, and in
As the head of the Greens' Legislative Council ticket, long-term peace and environmental activist IAN COHEN has a good chance of being elected the first Green member of the NSW parliament on March 25. (He missed out by only a few hundred votes in the
Sinn Fein condemns embargo
Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican party, passed the following resolution at its February 25-26 national conference (Ard Fheis).
"That This Ard Fheis unreservedly condemns as a disgrace the Dublin government's
In January and February, JO BROWN travelled in Java and met activists in the Indonesian students' and workers' movements. Here she describes visiting the slum areas around Jakarta that are home to the new urban working class.
The contrasts and
ACT Greens in federal by-election
By Gosta Lynga
CANBERRA — The ACT Greens are standing James Warden, environmentalist, historian of politics and writer, as their candidate in the March 25 by-election for the seat of Canberra, formerly
JIM O'DONNELL is a member of the Democratic Left (DL) in Ireland and an organiser of the New European Left Forum. He was interviewed for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in Brussels by SARAH STEPHEN and CHOW WEI CHENG.
Can you describe how the New European
Journalists arrested in Jakarta
Ahmad Taufik, chairperson of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), another member, Liston P. Siregar, and the outspokenly critical member of parliament, Sri Bintang Pamungkas, were arrested during a
ADELAIDE — Miscellaneous Workers Union members have lifted bans imposed on public hospitals after four weeks of industrial action. Workers have been fighting for a $20 wage increase and a further $48 over the next two years. After threatening a
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