Jon Land

  • Fear of famine in East Timor

    Recent reports from East Timor indicate that unless long-awaited monsoon rains arrive soon to break the drought, there may be a severe famine within the next few months. Speaking in Darwin on January 24, East Timorese resistance

  • Nabarlek uranium mine's hidden history

    In 1978, former PM Malcolm Fraser granted approval for uranium mining at Nabarlek in the Northern Territory. Situated in Arnhem land, 20 kilometres north-east of Gunnbalanya, Nabarlek is adjacent to an Aboriginal sacred site and within

  • Conference celebrates the Communist Manifesto

    SYDNEY — The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance commemorated 150 years of the Communist Manifesto with a socialist education conference here, January 3 to 7. The 255 conference participants reaffirmed and discussed the

  • Protests mark APEC

    Protests mark APECHuman rights and solidarity activists' protests at the APEC summit, November 22-25 in Vancouver, Canada, focused on the failure of governments in the Asia Pacific region to deal with human rights problems caused

  • Suharto blocks East Timorese asylum seekers

    Suharto blocks East Timorese asylum seekersThe Indonesian government is refusing to allow six East Timorese sheltering for more than three months in the Austrian embassy in Jakarta to leave for Portugal. Indonesian authorities

  • The big bad Australian: BHP's worldwide record

    The big bad Australian: BHP's worldwide recordBHP, Australia's biggest company, achieved international notoriety on May 4, 1994, when landowners surrounding the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea launched a $4

  • Protests and killings mark November 12

    More than 1000 East Timorese students staged a peaceful demonstration in Dili on November 12 to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre. The protest was held at the University of East Timor, amidst a heavy

  • Bob Brown says more action needed on greenhouse

    Bob Brown says more action needed on greenhouseJohn Howard has been strengthened in his push for non-binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions at the Kyoto summit in December, by the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government

  • Can East Timor win freedom?

    Can East Timor win freedom?On October 11, 1996, Jose Ramos Horta and Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their efforts to win freedom for the people of East Timor. The Nobel

  • Refugee right of appeal threatened

    Refugee right of appeal threatenedThe Howard government is preparing to restrict refugees' right of appeal with a bill to be put to parliament later this month. The migration bill will include a "privative clause", designed to make

  • East Timorese youth face death penalty

    East Timorese youth face death penaltyIndonesian authorities have announced that they will charge two East Timorese youths with subversion. Police arrested Constancio Costa dos Santos and Paulo Jorge Pereira in a ferry on Dili

  • Labor turnaround on East Timor?

    Labor foreign affairs spokesperson Laurie Brereton recently announced a proposed new policy on East Timor that asserts the right of the territory to an "act of self-determination". According to a report in the October 18-19 Australian,