By Tom Jordan and Norm Dixon The Papua New Guinea Defence Force has suffered significant setbacks in central Bougainville, the defending Bougainville Revolutionary Army has claimed. In the most important incident, BRA militants recaptured the
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Democrats will support repeal of 45D Victorian Senator Sid Spindler announced on November 12 that the Democrats would vote for the repeal of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ 45D and E of the Trade Practices Act. This is in line with party policy but is an about-face
By Sarah Stephen Last week marked the 10th anniversary of the decision to blockade the dam site on the Gordon that would have destroyed the Franklin, Australia's last wild river. It wasn't until seven months later that the last blockaders left
By Peter Boyle It is our debt, the mainstream media tell us. Every Victorian owes $12,640 (or more) as their individual share of the state government's debt. In his most conciliatory moment, Premier Jeff Kennett said he understood workers'
Underemployment: the de-skilling of young people By Sean Malloy With unemployment in Australia at the highest rate in half a century, among 15-19 year-olds it is a massive 31.2%. Bad as this is, it implies a further problem: a similarly large
Six-thirty a.m. Narita International Airport. JAL 722, a DC-10 from Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, lands. This plane is full of Indonesians and Malaysians. One look at them and you can guess they are newly arrived workers heading for jobs the Japanese
Intifada stirs as negotiations falter By Sean Malloy "It does not take much for any intelligent person, who visits the territories, to discover that life is still as sickening if not more so today than it was a few months ago. This leads
Benefit for Sydney public radio's "Mr R & B" — The many admirers of Chris Dell, stalwart presenter of Sydney radio's premier black roots music program, Stormy Monday on 2MBS-FM, have joined forces to organise a medical benefit on his behalf. The
Sinn Fein activist murdered by UVF By Denis Kevans Sheena Campbell, a Sinn Fein activist, was murdered in Belfast last month. Sheena, 29, was a member of the Six County Sinn Fein Executive, and a woman's activist. Sheena was standing with
By Boris Kagarlitsky For almost a year now, the president and the government have been implementing their reforms. They started by promising us that prosperity would come in only seven or eight months. Later they told us that "as we warned
MARK NEWHOUSE, ANC (WA) Youth and Student Representative, spoke to a 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly forum in Perth on October 28 on the struggle for democracy in South Africa. His talk is presented here slightly abridged. A recent national meeting of
Mary Christmas Cartoonist Rona Chadwick, whose cartoons readers will have seen in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, has a series of "Mary Xmas" cards especially suited to the holiday season. For a free catalogue of these and other designs, send a stamped,
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