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FIJI: 'Indigenous rights' smokescreen for elite rule

FIJI: 'Indigenous rights' smokescreen for elite rule Terrorist leader George Speight has claimed that his gang's kidnapping of the government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry was to defend "indigenous" Melanesian Fijians' political

ALP votes to support mandatory sentencing

ALP votes to support mandatory sentencing The ALP national conference voted on August 3 to withdraw its opposition to Western Australia's mandatory sentencing legislation. In a deal with the WA branch, the party changed its platform so that

PORTUGAL: 'Globalise the struggles'

PORTUGAL: 'Globalise the struggles' SAN GIAO — A huge banner with the words "Globalizar as lutas" (Globalise the struggles) heralded the 17th youth camp of the Fourth International, held in San Giao in central Portugal, July 23-29. Around 400

Community legal centres defy 'NGOcide'

BY KAREN FLETCHER ALICE SPRINGS — On August 2, the third day of the National Conference of Community Legal Centres, delegates learned that Prime Minister John Howard had announced he would amend the Sex Discrimination Act to make it legal to deny

Spotlight on Indonesia and West Papua

Spotlight on Indonesia and West Papua Independence activists killed in West Papua Two residents attempting to hoist West Papua's Morning Star independence flag in the coastal city of Sorong were shot dead by Indonesian police on July 28. More

GST — rolling back the opposition

GST: rolling back the opposition In the month since the introduction of the Howard government's goods and services tax, the big-business propaganda machine — commonly referred to as the "mass media" — has mounted a sustained attack on the ALP's

Aborigines determined to hold Olympics protests

BY ZANNY BEGG SYDNEY — A determined Aboriginal community would not be deterred by Olympics organisers' boast that "not one black toe would cross the Homebush Bay line", the Indigenous Social Justice Association's Ray Jackson told a packed public

Rules of Engagement — Rules of racism

Rules of racism The Australian Arabic Council (AAC) wishes to bring to your attention the film Rules of Engagement, directed by William Friedkin and produced by Paramount Pictures, which will be distributed in Australia from August 17 by Village

Write on: Letters to the editor

Write on: Letters to the editor Vilifying Not content with vilifying many of the unemployed, conservatives have moved on to sole parent pensioners. In Sydney's Daily Telegraph of July 29, Michael Duffy whinged about people "receiving the single

Friends of the Earth/GLW conference discusses global action

By Chris Slee MELBOURNE — More than 200 people attended the Global Action Conference, jointly sponsored by Friends of the Earth and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, held at Melbourne University on July 29. The conference comprised three plenary sessions and 11

NSW Labor plans old-growth forest for charcoal

BY SEAN HEALY SYDNEY — NSW Premier Bob Carr's Labor government appears hell-bent on committing 230,000 tonnes of predominantly old-growth timber from north-east NSW to be burned each year for charcoal at Gunnedah, the North East Forest Alliance

Globalisation's myths and victims

Globalisation's myths and victims BY ALASTAIR GREIG When I heard the World Economic Forum was to be held in Melbourne in early September, my mind raced back to an ABC interview I heard around six months ago with Pru Goward — the Prime