SYDNEY — On February 3, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission announced that it would contribute $6 million to "alleviating the social and environmental problems of Sydneys Redfern Aboriginal Community" by funding a proposal for
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Indonesian activist addresses meetings
By Bernard Wunsch
BRISBANE — Robby Hartono, a pro-democracy and labour activist with the PRD (People's Democratic Party) in Indonesia, addressed several meetings in Brisbane last week. In a four-day tour,
The Woman I'll Be
puts her hair up with a comb
of absolute zero, fastens
it with a pack of hounds
until it forms a straight peak,
utters words like a species
of pepper, and has a blemish
on her tongue, is certain
she is not asleep,
By Kerry Vernon
BRISBANE — The Queensland Anti-discrimination Tribunal ruled on January 31 that the medical group QFG had discriminated both directly and indirectly against a lesbian when it refused her access to artificial insemination through a
By Kevin Taylor
MOE — Victoria's Latrobe Valley has three substantial public hospitals: a modern 150-bed hospital in Moe, one in Traralgon and the Hobsons Park psychiatric hospital. There are also two publicly owned nursing homes. For six years
Monsanto agrees to change Roundup ads
Monsanto Corporation has agreed to change its advertising for glyphosate-based products, including Roundup, in response to complaints by the New York attorney general's office that the ads were misleading. The
Pepsi withdraws from Burma
A six-year campaign has ended with PepsiCo's announcement that it will totally withdraw from Burma by May 31. PepsiCo sells Pepsi and 7-Up in Burma under the brutal State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC).
The workers who wouldn't be persuadedThe workers who wouldn't be persuaded
By Peter Boyle
Since the collapse of the bureaucratic regimes in eastern Europe, we've been told that socialism is just another discredited 19th century philosophy.
Burma: insurgency and the politics of ethnicityBy Martin SmithZed Books, 1991. 492 pp., $59.95. Review by Eva Cheng
Though Burma: insurgency and the politics of ethnicity was published six years ago, it remains one of the richest and most
By Amanda Radcliffe
Last October, the Bakun Dam project contracts were signed in Malaysia between the Swedish-Swiss Asia Brown Boveri (ABB) consortium and Ekran Berhad. The US$5.5 billion Bakun Dam, masterminded by the timber tycoon and executive
Indonesia: What's behind the 'religious' riots
By James Balowski
Over the last 16 months, Indonesia's much touted "political stability" has been tested by some of the worst violence since the New Order regime seized power in 1965. As president
UWS Macarthur students fight to save SRC
By Jo Brown
SYDNEY — Students at the University of Western Sydney MacArthur campus are taking the fight to save their Student Representative Council to the courts after the SRC was abolished by the UWS
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