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Beattie to 'deprive Aborigines of rights'

By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Veteran state Labor MP Jim Fouras has warned the ALP it will deprive Aboriginal people of a "fundamental right to land" if it proceeds with its native title legislation, now before state parliament. Fouras quoted legal

Koalas in action

By Natalie Stevens SYDNEY — It has become a familiar sight in Sydney: a koala-suited environmentalist on street corners, entertaining and informing the public about the Wilderness Society's campaigns while asking for donations. These fundraisers

Vote with your feet against racism

Vote with your feet against racism The following call by Resistance for a further nationwide secondary student protest against racism on the Wednesday before the federal election was strongly supported at many of the August 28 rallies. We are told

Election strategy discussed in Jabiluka campaign

By Sarah Peart On August 21, Energy Resources of Australia's chief executive, Philip Shirvington, announced plans to finalise, before the federal election, contracts for selling uranium mined at Jabiluka in Kakadu National Park. The Jabiluka mine,

Billy Craigie: Gomilaroy warrior

Billy Craigie: Gomilaroy warrior By Lara Pullin Billy Craigie grew up in Gomilaroy country near Moree. He was a Gomilaroy warrior, and last month was laid to rest in a traditional burial. He died of a heart attack at the place he helped to build

ERA hits snag with Jabiluka mine

By Jim Green The federal environment minister, Senator Robert Hill, has rejected a public environment report into the milling of uranium ore from the Jabiluka mine in the Northern Territory. The proposal from Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) was

Solidarity

Solidarity We protest against the continued imprisonment of People's Democratic Party (PRD) prisoners in Indonesia. They are not released because the government feels the real threat from these brave comrades in chains. This exposes the hypocrisy

The Cuban Revolution is still strong

By Barry Sheppard The "special period" that opened in 1989 as the Soviet bloc collapsed has been a major challenge to the Cuban Revolution. Before the 1959 overthrow of the Batista dictatorship, the United States was Cuba's main trading partner.

Water companies' criminal record

By James Vassilopoulos What the hell is going on! That sums up the feelings of many Sydneysiders as, for the second time within a month, they have been warned to boil their water, following the detection of the parasites giardia and