By Tom Flanagan DARWIN — After five days of sustained campaigning community activists, trade unionists and Greenpeace failed to stop 20 containers of uranium ore (yellowcake) from leaving here on November 2. However, Energy Resources Australia
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Telling — East Timor: Personal Testimonies 1942-1992By Michele TurnerUniversity of NSW Press, 1992. 218 pp., $19.95Reviewed by Wendy Lowenstein This is a superb book; the best oral history I have read. It is moving and passionate, and above all
Wall of TestimonyWritten by Jose Casimiro and Maria Alice Casimiro BrancoPerformed by the Lafaek East Timor AssociationReviewed by Sally Mitchell and Tim E. Stewart Wall of Testimony — the latest play by the Lafaek East Timor Association — made
By Eva Cheng Preparatory meetings in the lead-up to the Asia-Pacifc Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference scheduled for Osaka, Japan later this month, indicate that the 18 member nations will be unlikely to agree on the timing of the removal of
The Struggle for Australian Industrial RelationsBy Braham DabscheckOxford University Press, 1995. 194 pp., $26.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon As Keating and Howard obscenely compete for the votes of working class "battlers", we should remind
By Ben Courtice HOBART — Some members of the state Labor Opposition want to leave open the option of entering a new alliance with the Green Party after the next state election, due in February 1996. However, Opposition leader Michael Field insists
By Jennifer Thompson A member of the Kurdistan organisation of the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (WPCI) has been issued with a death threat by an Islamic Revolutionary Hizbollah leader. The fatwa (religious order), repartedly issued by Islamic
HREOC: help or hindrance in human rights? By Angela Matheson Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner, Mick Dodson is pacing about his office at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) in
By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — Seventeen Christian churches and organisations in Australia last week announced their intention to provide sanctuary for East Timorese refugees under threat of deportation by the federal Labor government. The newly formed
By Kim Comerford BRISBANE — About 60 people attended the Women's Liberation Conference organised by the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and Resistance on October 29. The conference was the first of its kind here. The conference panels focussed on
Tom Flanagan DARWIN — The actions of trade unions played a decisive role in the delay, and eventual success, of ERA's efforts to export a shipment of uranium from Fort Hill Wharf last week. The threat of union bans was one of the factors that led
By Denis Doherty A national peace protest and camp planned for December 1 to 3 is to be held on the lawns of Parliament House. Organisers are determined to remind the major players in the nuclear club that the majority of people want nuclear weapons
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