Jim Green
WOLLONGONG — 150 local residents attended a Rock Pool Rally at Wombarra beach in the northern suburbs on Sunday, August 28. There was unanimous opposition to City Rail's plans to deal with the region's stormwater problems by building
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Original poetry is returning to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. This announcement will be greeted with delight by the many contributors who have sent their poems into us over the last three and a half years.
The paper's Cultural Dissent pages will
By Lisa Macdonald
SYDNEY — More than 200 people gathered at Sydney University on August 27 to participate in an "Environment in Crisis Conference" convened by the Nature Conservation Council (NCC) of NSW.
The conference brought together
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — A combined union delegates meeting on August 30 endorsed a motion authorising Brisbane's anti-privatisation committee to call an action in support of a national week of action on privatisation. The meeting,
by Tom Kelly
Delegates to the ALP national conference later this month are being lobbied intensely on uranium mining policy by both pro- and anti-mining forces. The fact that the conference decision could well end Labor's existing three mines
Barristers' 'self-regulation'
On 31 August the NSW Bar Council admitted in the Supreme Court that it acted illegally in dismissing complaints against a Senior Crown Prosecutor, Mark Tedeschi. These complaints will now be reviewed by Legal
Bougainville support
By Michael Unger
ADELAIDE — The Bougainville Action Group (BAG) celebrated the anniversary of Bougainville's 1975 declaration of independence on September 1 with a stall outside the Commonwealth Building in Currie
ADELAIDE — Nearly 50 supporters braved rain to attend the Men Against Sexual Assault (MASA) rally at Parliament House on September 3. The rally heard from speakers including poet Geoff Goodfellow, who recited a poem linking the frustrating violence
Lenin Rests
By Walter Jones
Lenin is our captain
Carve his name with pride
Chiselled deep into a wall
By the many who have died.
Wake up! Wake up Vlad!
You are too long dead
Your tomb is now a stock exchange
And Yeltsin is
By Russel Norman
The eighth General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), signed earlier this year, promises to deliver more on free trade than any of its predecessors. Within its 20,000 pages are agreements reducing restrictions on trade in
Timorese guerillas stand firm
By Jon Land
Claims by the Indonesian military that it is scaling down operations in East Timor and that the armed wing of the East Timorese resistance, FALINTIL (Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East
Bosnian women refugees in Australia
The International Women's Development Agency in Sydney will be hosting a meeting organised to allow Bosnian women survivors of the war to speak about their experiences in escaping their country and their life
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