Demand protection for Aboriginal site
By Chris Spindler
SYDNEY — The National Aboriginal History and Heritage Council protested at Bob Carr's Heritage Week address on April 22 to draw attention to its demand that the "Day of Mourning"
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By Jennifer Thompson
Last month a young Aboriginal man and former Long Bay inmate launched A Guide to Surviving Incarceration. The book relates to the feelings of many new Aboriginal inmates — "One of the first things you might think about is
Two legged eatingTwo legged eating
A number of people have asked me to offer a definitive adjudication on the vexed question of cannibalism. That, I am pleased to say, is a topic on which I may have something very exciting to impart.
If you don't fight ...
The failure of the ACTU's living wage claim for a $20 "safety net" rise and a general 8.75% increase in award wage rates indicates the weakened state of the trade union movement today.
In rejecting the ACTU's claim on
30,000 march for strawberry workers
By Caroline Lund
WATSONVILLE, California — A massive march here on April 13 launched the largest union organising drive taking place in the United States today. Energy and hope were in the air.
By Tyrion Perkins
Following the University of Sydney senate vote to introduce up-front fees for some undergraduate places, the Sydney Morning Herald on April 23 announced that 600 staff positions may be axed over the next two years. Savings
Native title and the environment
Considering that land degradation is one of the major problems facing Australia today and that and essential step towards remedying the problem is wresting from the pastoralists and agriculturalists their present
By Lana Halpin
BRISBANE — Andrew Norton's article "Fee students help all", which appeared in the April 14 Courier-Mail, is evidence of the Liberal government's vision for the future of education. Norton advocates the deregulation of the
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has welcomed a report which criticises the procedure for collecting statistics on mine safety. Review of Mining in NSW, released on April 9, makes a number of recommendations on how to improve mine
Turkey leads in persecution
At least 45 journalists were detained in Turkey in March, according to the Journalists' Union of Turkey (TGS).
"The number of journalists taken into custody was 45, those attacked and beaten numbered eight, 114
By Peter Boyle
After a few months of media-driven celebrity last year, Pauline Hanson, the independent member for Oxley, seemed to drop from the limelight. But now she's back on the front pages as she tours the country promoting her new party,
Blackness
Blackness there is only Blackness.I can see, hear, feel, sense nothing,there is nothing to sense. It changes to grey.Now there are shapes, signs of others,but I can't see them — senses are so dulled. Now if I try I can see light
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