Eyewitness account from Liquica
Following is an eyewitness account from Liquica priest RAFAEL DOS SANTOS. It is a translation by Human Rights Watch of a report in the Dili daily paper Suata Timor Timur on April 8. At about 13:00, members of Besi
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University pulls plug on community radio
By Corinne Batt-Rawden and Ritchie Logan
LISMORE — Around 120 people gathered on April 13 at a public meeting to show their support for the future of 2NCR, after the local community radio station's
Roxby Downs expansion to cause irreparable damage
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — On March 26, the $1.9 billion expansion of Western Mining Corporation's (WMC) Roxby Downs mine in the north of South Australia was launched by Prime Minister John Howard.
Picket calls for disarming of militia
By Liam Mitchell
SYDNEY — A picket outside the Sydney offices of Garuda Airlines on April 15 demanded that the Indonesian government disarm the pro-integration militias responsible for massacres in Liquica
Ireland: impasse on the Good Friday agreement
The Irish peace process is again in crisis following the failure to meet a third deadline for the formation of a power-sharing executive before Easter. Loyalists are refusing to agree to the formation
How a mass movement defeated uranium strategy
By Greg Adamson
By early 1979, the Australian anti-uranium movement had grown rapidly for more than two years. Millions of people were now convinced of the dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle. Hundreds
MUA: Rank and File challenge warmly received
By Dick Nichols
For Dave Cushion, the National MUA Rank and File candidate for Victorian branch secretary, the Maritime Union of Australia election, which began on April 14, is about "reestablishing
Buffalo Music: benefit for East Timor
MELBOURNE — Buffalo Music, a six-hour musical spectacular to promote solidarity
with the people of East Timor, will be held at Trades Hall on May 1.
The concert features the Natural Mystic, Painters
More charges thrown at Pinochet
ON APRIL 7, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon decided to accuse Augusto Pinochet of 11 more cases of torture allegedly committed between 1988 and 1990. The latest charges bring to 60 the total number of charges pending
By Jonathan Singer
The two April 11 NSW Sunday papers carried the same screaming headline: "Invaded". What was the force and intent of this invasion? At last count, 59 people, sailing in a rusty tugboat, had apparently run aground in northern NSW.
Speak-out on Balkans war
By Bea Brear
SYDNEY — The socialist youth organisation Resistance organised a snap speak-out at Town Hall on April 16 against the NATO war on Serbia and Serbia's attacks on Kosova. Resistance organiser Sarah Peart spoke
US/NATO hypocrisy exposed as Turkey attacks Kurds
By Norm Dixon
Turkey, a member of the US-led NATO alliance that is bombing Serbia with the claimed aim of ending the oppression of the Kosovar people, is viciously escalating its attacks on the
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