BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — Refugees on trial for their involvement in August protests at the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre have been remanded in custody for a further month, following a court hearing here on September 22.
After being
422
BY NOAM CHOMSKY
There has been a general assault in the last 25 years on solidarity, democracy, social welfare, anything that interferes with private power, and there are many targets. One of the targets is undoubtedly the educational system.
In
BY JOHN NEBAUER
ADELAIDE — Workers at Balfours Bakery have rejected an invitation to have their wages cut by management, in a vote on September 19.
Management had asked staff to accept a pay cut of 76 cents an hour and other measures, including
The following is the text of a model motion for trade unions and community groups to condemn police violence at S11.
This (union/meeting/executive) condemns the September 11-13 assaults by the Victoria Police on non-violent blockaders at Crown
BY BEA BREAR
HOBART — "What really happened at S11" was the theme of a September 19 Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly public forum and multimedia extravaganza put together by Resistance and Democratic Socialist Party activists returned from the Melbourne
S11 protests — 1
The "guardians of law" with batons of "democracy" indiscriminately beat the S11 protest marchers, to maintain "law & order" by brutality. In reality, it was an attempt to denigrate the image of S11 activists, presenting them not
PRAGUE — More than 11,000 police, mostly in riot units, will be deployed on city streets during the IMF and World Bank meeting. They will be assisted in their tasks by more than 1600 troops.
The Czech troops will deploy six armoured personnel
DILI — The newest addition to East Timor's political landscape was declared formally at the National Council of Timorese Resistance headquarters on September 20: the Social Democratic Party (PSD).
The founders and key leaders of the PSD are
MANILA — In a full-scale military assault reminiscent of the worst days of martial law under former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines government on September 16 launched an attack on the southern islands centred on Jolo, allegedly to crush
Personal and insecure
By Greg Harris
Bluetooth is the new buzz word in the network world. This is a standard
endorsed by dozens of the world's largest computer corporations. It allows
two computerised devices near each other to
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The state Labor government has a plan to close schools in Tasmania, disguised by the promise that "no school will be forced to close". The value of this promise is revealed by the dispute that has erupted over the plan
During television coverage of the Olympic Games, the first of three US-only Nike advertisements aired. US TV viewer Brian Anastasi described one of the ads on the AriseAction email discussion list: "[It opens] with a woman taking her shirt off,
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