Meeting discusses woodchipping
By Liam Mitchell
WOLLONGONG — A public meeting at the Resistance Centre on February 18 was told of distortions by the media and the timber industry in the debate over woodchipping of old growth forests.
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Steel Line Doors strikers tour Melbourne
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — Three workers from Steel Line Doors in Brisbane, who are among 17 unionists on strike against racial and trade union discrimination since November, toured Melbourne
MELBOURNE — After spending $5 million in court costs, the Kennett government has finally admitted defeat and agreed to reopen Northlands Secondary College. The end of the battle came with a Supreme Court ruling that the Equal Opportunity Board
For women
Women in Focus, the only independent women's magazine in the south of NSW, is seeking articles from women for its spring edition on the issue of "How would women like to be portrayed in the media?" If you would like to share your
By Karen Fletcher
SYDNEY — Nearly 10,000 anti-woodchipping protesters encircled the NSW Parliament House on February 19 in a spirited show of strength.
Many participants had made their own placards and banners, expressing anger at both
Actively Radical TV — This week's program, Bougainville: Australia's Genocidal War, features an interview with Moses Havini, representative of the Bougainville Interim Government. A short documentary looks at the history of colonialism in
DARWIN — The Danila Dilba Aboriginal Medical Service in Darwin is facing a funding crisis. Barely able to pay its workers the fortnight's pay due last week, Danila Dilba may be forced to close its doors in the very near future.
Danila Dilba is an
Young people harassed in six counties
Twenty-six per cent of 18-year-olds in the occupied six counties of Ireland say they have been harassed by British crown forces.
This information was contained in a report published in Northern Ireland
Among NOAM CHOMSKY's public activities during his visit to Sydney was a press conference on January 19. An earlier issue of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly covered part of that conference; here JOHN TOGNOLINI excerpts Chomsky's replies to several questions on
By Max Lane
Indonesian President Suharto's son-in-law, Colonel Prabowo, has been cultivating an image of being interested in trying to reach some form of compromise solution in East Timor. He has visited both Bishop Belo in Dili and Xanana in
The protest meeting
Chairperson: Fellow environmentalists! As you may all be aware, the plight of the forests is at a critical stage. These facts will reverberate, if anywhere, then in the hearts of us all. Yes indeed, reverberate. We respond to
Labor swaps media barons
What lies behind Prime Minister Keating's recent outburst against Labor's former favourite media magnate, Kerry Packer? In describing the rejected Optus-Packer plan for a regional pay TV duopoly (with Murdoch-Telecom) as
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