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A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor

By John Pilger Last month Prime Minister Paul Keating launched a "trade and cultural promotion" with Indonesia. Surrounded by businessmen and representatives of the arts, Keating made an extraordinary speech that was praised in the Australian

For abortion law repeal

Claudine Holt For abortion law repeal Justice Newman's April 18 ruling that abortion is still illegal in NSW is a dangerous threat to the limited legal access to abortion rights in the state. Unless we take up the struggle to decriminalise

People's Democratic Union launched in Jakarta

By M. Bandung in Jakarta and Max Lane One hundred students, workers and farmers crowded into the offices of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH) on May 2 for the launch of Indonesia's first campaigning democratic organisation, the People's

Dirty tricks in PSU national election campaign

By Steve Rogers CANBERRA — Incumbent national officials in the Public Sector Union have embarked on a campaign of red-baiting and dirty tricks prior to national union elections in mid-May. The cause of their concern is a campaign being run by

Rolling over the membership

By Pat Brewer The current factional brawls in NSW and Victoria are an all too familiar scenario in a party which lacks real democracy. Party members of branches and affiliated unions have little real influence over policy formation, and no

Poll 'free and fair'

Poll 'free and fair' By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — International observers have pronounced the elections free and fair. While acknowledging widespread complaints about the Independent Electoral Commission's "incompetence",