In August 1975, as the Suharto dictatorship was preparing to invade East Timor, Australia's ambassador to Indonesia, Richard Woolcott, sent a cable to Canberra urging compliance with Indonesia's plans to annex East Timor.
He wrote: "It would seem
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The US presidential election takes place on November 7. According to public opinion polls, it's a dead heat between the Republican nominee, Texas Governor George W. Bush, and the Democratic nominee, vice-president Al Gore.
What makes the election
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members at five Southcorp factories here are in the second week of strike action, which began on October 11 in support a new enterprise agreement.
Southcorp has offered an average
BY HELEN BRANSGROVE
SYDNEY — Sixty people marched on the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre on October 14 to protest against the mandatory jailing in grim, high-security prisons of men, women and children seeking refuge from persecution.
The state of Israel was founded on a lie: that Palestine was an empty land. "Land without people for a people with no land" was the Zionists' slogan.
Even after the majority of Palestinians had been expelled, Israel's prime minister, Golda Meir,
BY GEORGINA DAVIES
In the cloyed back rooms of suburban homes across Australia, outworkers slave over their sewing machines to produce high-fashion garments for the likes of Billabong, Cherry Lane, Converse, Esprit, Fletcher Jones, Jay Jays, Johnny
PRD suit against Suharto hampered
On October 18, the chairperson of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) Budiman Sujatmiko met with the National Ombudsman Commission to complain about "unprofessional" incidents by the court that have disrupted a law
Angry residents of the Zimbabwe capital Harare's impoverished "high density" satellite townships began a three-day protest on October 16 against price increases for basic commodities.
The spontaneous protests, which were triggered by young people
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Democratic Socialist Party national executive member Peter Boyle has questioned the October 10 ruling by Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissioner Kathleen McEvoy against the far-right Adelaide Institute's web site.
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — The Joy Mining picket will end this week when the 60 workers return to work after 29 weeks "on the grass", having beaten an attempt by the company to break their union and their spirit.
The workers won all their
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
SYDNEY — Students and staff at the University of Western Sydney rallied outside a board of trustees meeting on October 18 to protest against the UWS administration's refusal to guarantee that the amalgamation of the
BY JOHN PILGER
According to the folksy writer Matthew Engel, the glories of the Olympic Games have a cathartic effect on nations. The 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles "helped the US regain the confidence it lost in Vietnam". He omitted to explain the
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