ADELAIDE — Workers occupied part of the Workcare building here during a 600-strong protest in freezing winds and hailstorms on August 23. The building workers, cleaners and corrective service employees were protesting against proposed changes to
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SYDNEY — Community groups housing up to 10,000 low income people around the state could be forced to close down because of a Department of Housing bungle. Representatives of 62 Community Tenancy Schemes say that new conditions and actual funding
Story and photos by David Brazil New South Wales forests are going up in smoke. Up and down the north coast, bush fire brigades and the Forestry Commission are going though their ritual of winter burn-off. At Chaelundi, in the name of forest
By Norm Dixon Revelations that the South African government has secretly directed millions of rands to the Inkatha organisation, responsible for the deaths of thousands in murderous attacks in black townships, has put the de Klerk regime on the
SYDNEY — Queer Notion, an organisation in the gay and lesbian community here, conducted an "outing" at a press conference opposite St Mary's cathedral on August 21. "Outing only works as a political weapon because there is a stigma attached to a
By Melanie Sjoberg MELBOURNE — For two days last week, the city was engulfed by black clouds of toxic fumes as fire raged through the Coode Island chemical storage facilities. Emergency services were stretched to the limit. Evacuations around
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