June 24
1978: The first Sydney Mardi Gras march ends in a police riot.
June 25
1876: US cavalry face the biggest defeat in their war against Native Americans in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
1955: During a three-week strike in NSW,
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SYDNEY — On May 29, Redfern parish priest and Neocatechumenal Way sect member Dennis Sudla threw a cross painted in the Aboriginal colours onto the floor while saying mass, and smashed a table on which it had been standing. Later, three
DARWIN — Letty Scott has reacted angrily to the Northern Territory Supreme Court's dismissal of the case against the NT government and three prison officers for the murder of her husband, Douglas Scott, in Berrimah prison on July 5, 1985.
While
BRISBANE — On June 7, 40 people attended an anti-war forum jointly organised by the Stop the War Collective and the Brisbane Anti-Bases group.
Speakers included Marianne Hanson, a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the
If you were looking for a vivid description of our world at the beginning of the 21st century, you couldn't do much better than the following: "On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces, which no epoch of the
SYDNEY — The NSW coroner announced on June 15 that an inquiry will be held into the death of Australian journalist Brian Peters in East Timor in 1975. Peters' sister, Maureen Tolfree, made the application for an inquest a year ago.
Tolfree's
Sarah Stephen
Sydney-based Chinese diplomat Chen Yonglin, who said he was assigned by his superiors to "monitor and persecute the democracy activists and Falun Gong practitioners in Australia", sought political asylum on May 26.
Chen has now
Sam Wainwright
If anything summed up the mood of defiance at the National Union Fightback Conference at Trades Hall in Melbourne on June 11, it was the hero's welcome accorded to former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian
Raul Bassi
The Australian people closely followed the situation of Douglas Wood, the hostage in Iraq who has just been freed. His situation was aggravated by the totally wrong policies of the Australian government.
This government went to war
The following statement was adopted by the National Union Fightback Conference in Melbourne on June 11.
With control of the Senate on July 1, the Howard government will begin an all-out attack on the rights of working people. The Coalition's plan
On June 16, Bougainville's first autonomous government was sworn in at a ceremony watched by its new president, Joseph Kabui, and Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Somare. A 40-member parliament for the island province was elected on May 27, a
In recent years, cheap imported chicken from the US and Europe — usually fatty chicken parts in unlabelled packages — has flooded Ghana's market, leading to a collapse in demand for local poultry. In 2004, an estimated 40,000 tonnes of chicken
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