Black pride pop
Rhythm of NatureColoured StoneCAAMA Music<http://www.caama.com.au/music> Review by Barry Healy
Coloured Stone, proud propagandists for Aboriginal consciousness, are back with another poppy release that presents their
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Petition to free Mordechai Vanunu
By Mervyn Murchie
Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician who worked at Israel's Dimona nuclear establishment, was kidnapped by Israel's secret police, Mossad, on September 30, 1986. He was condemned to 18 years'
Workers strike over sackings
By Alastair Dickinson
SYDNEY — On July 29, workers at Plastiflex Australia, a small Belgian-owned enterprise in Sydney's western suburbs, walked off the job to begin a 48-hour strike against management's refusal to
Vote in East Timor delayed again
By Jon Land
On July 28, a spokesperson for United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan announced that the referendum on independence for East Timor will be delayed yet again. August 30 has been scheduled as the
By Srini and Shane Bentley
SYDNEY — "Foreign students go AWOL", screamed the headline of the July 14 Australian. Three hundred international students are out of pocket and face the risk of deportation following the collapse of the National
Amidst great controversy, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and (MBG) recently agreed to support a gas pipeline project proposed by Enron and Shell Eastern Bolivia. The San Miguel-Cuiabá pipeline, a joint
Free market speech isn't free
By Kim Bullimore
Freedom of speech is one of the most treasured ideas in Western democracies, held up as an ideal towards which all nations and governments should strive. The United States has enshrined this right,
The pace of corporate concentration within the "life industry" is accelerating, according to a report by the United States-based Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI). "Life industry" is a term used by the giant transnational enterprises
'Perfect place' for a waste dump
By Natalie Zirngast
DARWIN — Thirty people from Everyone for a Nuclear-Free Future (ENuFF) protested against federal environment minister Senator Robert Hill's presence here on July 30. The action involved
Here comes the revolution
"Like aristocrats joining a revolution in order to temper its excesses — useful fools, Lenin called them — these so-called 'conservatives' claim that it is necessary to support the Turnbull-Keating republic at the
End military ties with Jakarta, now!
The federal government has made much of its supposed foreign policy "shift" on East Timor. Foreign minister Alexander Downer travelled to Indonesia on July 30 for discussions with Indonesian government and
Labor with the wrong class
Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the ALPBy Michael ThompsonPluto Press, 1999118pp, $20 (pb) Review by Sue Boland
The Labor Party lost government at the 1996 federal election when a substantial number of
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