Too easy
By Brandon Astor Jones
"It was fun meeting other people, seeing what they're like ... they're really just like us." — Adrian Proby
When left to their own devices, we can usually depend upon children to cut through those
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Muchtar Pakpahan released
By Max Lane
Muchtar Pakpahan, chairperson of the Indonesian Workers for Prosperity Union (SBSI), was released from prison on May 19.
Pakpahan was arrested, tried and sentenced to three years' jail in November.
Teachers voted at stop-work meetings around Victoria on May 3 to begin an industrial campaign to improve working conditions. The Melbourne meeting was attended by more than 5000 teachers, and good attendances were recorded at meetings in Mildura,
Loud silences and abusive families
Spanking the Monkey
Opening in Sydney June 1 and Melbourne June 9
Previewed by Lou Stanley
The film is well directed and at points quite funny, but the most disturbing aspect is the audience's response
Execution threat against prisoners in Iran
According to what the Tudeh Party regards as reliable information, the Iranian government is preparing to execute 44 political prisoners.
There are also indications, the party says, of plans to
By Gideon Spiro
"An ill wind is blowing from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry." Such was Yitzhak Rabin's response to Egypt's demand that Israel sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The demand would subject this country to international
By Willie Wahlin
SYDNEY — Anyone who has been to a session of Brackets and Jam will already be familiar with the lively, sweaty, loud and happy atmosphere that is created every Monday night. For those who have not, you are in for a feast of
By Lisa Macdonald
SYDNEY — More than 400 people attended a rally outside Parliament House here on May 23 calling for a halt to the privately owned and operated M2 tollway development, which threatens to lock nearly 300 square kilometres of
Ding Zilin is the mother of Chiang Jielian, a 17-year-old student who was among the hundreds massacred in Tienanmen Square six years ago, on June 4, 1989. Chinese officials branded the pro-democracy protests "counter-revolutionary" and claimed that
Israel, Iran and the US
Reports that Israel is planning to bomb Iran's nuclear power facilities coincide with US attempts to strangle Iran economically through the unilateral imposition of sanctions.
The Israeli government claims that Iran
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — A crane driver was stood down at MIM's Mt Isa mine in the days following the return to work, accepted at a mass meeting on May 22, despite a 14-day cooling off period agreed to by unions and the company to end the
Woolworths workers strike against speed-ups
By Dave Mizon
SYDNEY — While workers at the Kurnell refinery were taking strike action two weeks ago, a much less publicised struggle was also taking place. Woolworths warehouse workers, members
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