More budget cuts for schools
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — South Australia's specialised adult re-entry schools are facing cuts of $1 million each year for the next three years. Adult re-entry schools cater for people returning to study, as
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Xanana denies BHP meeting
Xanana Gusmao, the imprisoned leader of the East Timorese resistance, has rejected an article in the August 20 Sydney Morning Herald which reported that a high level BHP petroleum representative recently met with him in
Looking out: Sisters and brothers
By Brandon Astor Jones
The warden said to me the other day,"Why come the black boys don't run offlike the white ones do?"I lowered my jaw and scratch my headand said (innocently I think) "Well, suh,I ain't for
These are the favourite web sites of Sean Healy, national coordinator of Resistance, the socialist youth organisation that has organised the high school student demonstrations against racism around the country. Sean's list appeared in the Icon
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News —
Australia's anti-nuclear movement: a short history
By Jim Green
Australia's involvement in the nuclear industry began with supplying uranium for the US and UK's weapons programs during and after World War II. British weapons tests in South
The disappeared
The following Indonesian democracy activists, who disappeared in the last 17 months, have not yet been found:
Mohammed Yusuf, United Development Party, May 1997
Dedy Hamdun, United Development Party, May 1997
Noval Alkatiri,
By Sarah Lantz and Kerryn Williams
MELBOURNE — The first organising meeting of the 1999 Network of Women Students Australia conference was held at the RMIT on August 21. One of the first agenda items discussed was the question of whether or not
... and ain't i a woman?: A shove into enslavement
One of the more ignorant and backward diatribes against feminists' criticisms of the federal government's tax "reform" package appeared in the Daily Telegraph on August 18. There, Miranda
The Interview By Conrad Barnett
The serenity of a dimly lit room with a sleeping character slouched in his chair is broken along with the front door as a bunch of cops charge in shouting and brandishing guns. The introductory sequence of the film
A terrorist state
At 7.15pm on August 20, without warning, a series of massive blasts destroyed the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in the heavily populated northern suburbs of Khartoum, capital of Sudan. The factory's janitor and his family are
Building workers 'seasonally employed'?
By Shane Bentley
SYDNEY — The federal government has decided that construction workers are "seasonally employed" and therefore not entitled to unemployment benefits when a job ends. The change means that
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