Nearly six year ago, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly started production with a cover that demanded "Stop the War". The war was, of course, in the Arab-Persian Gulf, and the slogan "No blood for oil" became the clearest explanation of what the war was really
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Green River Run — By Merv Lilley. Green River Run is an original mix of drama, song and poetry, set in the Australian canefields in the 1930s. This was a turbulent time, when the canecutters fought the employers to eliminate Wiels disease,
By Jennifer Thompson
As the third anniversary of the Oslo peace accords between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel approaches, and PLO President Yasser Arafat meets the new Israeli prime minister for the first time, the Israeli
By Norm Dixon
On September 3 the United States launched the latest salvo in its five-year war against Iraq. The US military's cruise missile attacks on Iraq, like its mammoth six-week display of high-tech butchery in 1991, has nothing to do with
By Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — Around 1500 public transport workers, from Queensland Rail and City Council buses, rallied at Roma Street forum for a joint stop-work meeting on September 2. Workers were angry at plans by the Borbidge government to
ALP stands by HECS
By Kathy Newnam
BRISBANE — The ALP is up to its old tricks trying to con students that the introduction of HECS in 1987 did not disadvantage students. Sheriff Deen, the presidential candidate on the Labor Club's YOU — Your
By Anitra Gorris-Hunter and Natalie Woodlock
HOBART — More than 100 people rallied on the steps of state parliament on August 14 to protest against cuts to women's services and shelters. The Sexual Assault Support Service (SASS), which will
CANBERRA — The issue of youth crime in city and suburban centres here has been receiving much media attention. The supposed increase in youth crime, however, is questioned by DAVID MATTHEWS, coordinator of the youth information and advocacy service
Black Cargoes
There's a silence out on the wharf tonight,
The wharf they call Pier One,
Where in years gone by, there was many a fight,
In the bitter winds of the winter night,
Till the fight for the wharves was won.
The Dutch, they ruled
ALP backs down on hospital funding
By Jonathan Strauss
SYDNEY — A September 5 rally at Prince of Wales Hospital of more than 1000 hospital workers, patients, building workers from the hospital's construction site and community supporters
By Max Lane
The National Commission for Human Rights, established by the Suharto dictatorship, has surprised the regime by announcing that its investigations reveal that five people were killed and 74 are missing from the riot that took place after
On August 23 the Los Angeles City Council voted 11-0 to ask US attorney general Janet Reno for an investigation into charges that US-backed Nicaraguan contra rebels supplied tonnes of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs in the 1980s and that the
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