By Maureen Baker and Sean Magill The 1991 Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody made 339 recommendations to reduce the rate of Aboriginal imprisonment and the federal government allocated $400 million over five years to implement them. Four
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By Stan Lee The small, usually sedate coastal town of Victor Harbor on the Fleurieu Peninsula 80 kms south of Adelaide was this year's venue for South Australia's annual Folk and Music Festival between September 29 and October 2. Despite the wind and
By Glenn Elliott-Rudder WYONG, NSW — In the state election campaign in March, both major parties attempted to outdo each other on law and order. Each claimed to be tougher on crime than the other. Within this political climate, the 1994 Children
By Karl Miller MELBOURNE — The $1.7 billion CityLink project, a road privatisation scheme to connect several existing traffic-logged roads with electronic tollways, is on hold. Transurban won the contract some months ago. However, last week the
For almost a week, thousands of East Timorese youths have taken to the streets of Dili, East Timor in a series of violent clashes with Indonesian security forces.
By Sarah Stephen CANBERRA — Student Underground, an anti-nuclear magazine produced by and for students, was launched outside Narrabundah College on October 13. ACT education minister Bill Stefaniak said on local television news that he was
Sustainable Energy Systems: Pathways for Australian Energy ReformEdited by Stephen DoversCambridge University Press, 224 pp., $29.95 (pb)Reviewed by Graham Matthews Energy is crucial to an ecologically sustainable technological society. With fossil
By Carla Gorton ADELAIDE — The state Liberal government's Hindmarsh Island Bridge Royal Commission, more accurately described as "Brown's Inquisition", has cost SA taxpayers more than $1.8 million. Recently the commission, now more exposed as a
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — On September 1 Russia's children streamed back to school after the summer break. The bouquets of flowers they brought turned out to be almost the only benefits which the new education year brought the country's teachers.
Recent public statements by Prime Minister Paul Keating and foreign minister Gareth Evans denying the refugee status of East Timorese who have fled their Indonesian-occupied country to Australia, is yet another despicable episode in the federal Labor
By Norm Dixon Municipal workers and nurses have continued to take militant industrial action despite repeated threats of dismissal and legal action by African National Congress-led national, provincial and local governments. Press reports indicate
By John Percy Ten years after the Russian Revolution that was the inspiration for the formation of the Communist Party of Australia, much had changed in the Soviet Union. Bureaucratism was rampant, Lenin was dead, and Stalin was rapidly pushing aside
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