May Day on South Coast
By Liam Mitchell
WOLLONGONG — Workers, students and community activists are expected to rally on May 6 for the annual May Day March in support of justice for all peoples.
Leading the march will be picketers
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By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The shooting death of a 16-year-old youth during a confrontation at a suburban Rochedale house on April 25 has provoked a nationwide debate on vigilante justice for home owners in the face of break-ins.
The death
By Peter Montague
Somewhere between 2.6 and 3.8 million US men and women served in Vietnam during the years 1965 through 1971, the years when chemical herbicides were being used to denude the jungle and destroy enemy crops.
Alongside the
By Sarah Nicholson
SYDNEY — On the evening of April 8, Vibe Tribe's free community party, "Freequency", in Sydney Park, St Peters, was attacked. The party had been in progress for over two hours, when numerous police squad cars and paddy
By Robyn Marshall
A wide-ranging patent granted in the US at the end of March to the National Institutes of Health, a major government-funded research body, will cripple the development of life-saving gene therapies.
NIH has given the
By Kevin Sanders
Two unnervingly hawkish Pentagon documents prepared for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and acquired recently by Greenpeace under the Freedom of Information Act, positively seethe with gung ho enthusiasm for a nuclear brawl,
Timorese meet UN secretary-general
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — Some 100 East Timorese and members of the Australia-East Timor Association rallied outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel on April 27. Inside, United Nations Secretary-General Boutros
With the advent of e-mail and the Internet, the art of letter-writing may be disappearing. Still, for many of us letters have the capacity to provoke memories more intensely than any other form of human communication. Sean McLeod, Michael Collins and
RMIT students oppose smart card
By Lisa Farrance
MELBOURNE — Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) is intending to collate information on student spending habits and movements. The university is proposing to introduce magnetic
The meeks are gathering
Blessed with the opportunity to meet with the GLW reading public over the recent Easter break, I am pleased to announce the founding of a new third force set to shake up electoral politics in this country. Mrs A. Meek of
The things that happen on Yungaburra Road
By Rosanna Barbero
SYDNEY — Death Defying Theatre's Yungaburra Road, written by Noelle Janaczewska, provides an examination and voyage into all forms of violence: individual, community, national
By Tom Maguire
LONDON — A sharp polarisation of voters towards the extreme right and left was a key feature of the first round of the French presidential elections, held on April 23.
French presidential elections are held in two rounds if
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