Pub promotes racist, sexist performer
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — On November 6, the show at the Wickham Hotel, promoted as Brisbane's "premier gay dance venue", was disrupted by a protest against sexism and racism. Holding placards which read
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Dita Sari: 'I am so optimistic'
By Jill Hickson
Dita Sari, Indonesia's only woman political prisoner, was arrested while leading a 20,000-strong workers' demonstration in the industrial city of Surabaya on July 8, 1996. She was tried in 1997 for
...God forbid!'
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The woods were made for he hunters of dreams,The brooks for the fishers of song;To the hunters who hunt for the gunless gameThe streams and the woods belong." — From The Bloodless Sportsman, by Sam
By Allen Myers
Australian big business has a new worry, according to a feature article in the October 27 Bulletin. It's the "class action" lawsuit. A class action suit is one in which all the people deemed injured by some action jointly sue the
Dili massacre commemorated
November 12 was the seventh anniversary of the massacre by Indonesian troops of 270 East Timorese at the Santa Cruz cemetery. The unarmed East Timorese were attending the funeral of a student who had died during an
Human Rights Commission inquiry into death
An Aboriginal death in Alice Springs in March has attracted the attention of the Human Rights Commission.
It is the first coronial investigation into a case of this kind in which the HRC has sought to
By Tristan Miller
Over the past four weeks, we have been trying to establish a club at Brighton High in Adelaide. This has been more of a challenge than we had expected. Teachers and staff have been doing their absolute best to close down our
School uniforms
So the Queensland Teachers Union is trying to enforce school uniforms even after the Ombudsman has ruled such actions are illegal.
As a child who, luckily, never had to wear a uniform to primary school, but who was forced to wear
Speakers representing indigenous people throughout Australia and across the globe will be featured at the Global Survival and Indigenous Rights Conference, to be hosted by Friends of the Earth (FoE) on November 20-22 in Maribyrnong, Melbourne. The
By Joanne Wilson
Anyone who is on unemployment benefits at the moment, and particularly any young person, would know that just to stay on Newstart is fast becoming a full-time job. (Which is just as well, really, because there aren't any others out
Kanaky: independence postponed
By Sam Wainwright
On December 8, residents of the French Overseas Territory of New Caledonia voted 71.86% in favour of a referendum proposal to shift more decision-making powers from Paris to the territory. The
NATIONAL — Resistance branches across the country held launches of the new Resistance magazine on the weekend of November 14. Stay tuned for more news next week.
SYDNEY — On November 6, the Sydney Resistance branch set an exciting path for
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