Vince Jones dedicates performance to Dita Sari
By John Gauci
SYDNEY — "This song is for an amazing Indonesian woman named Dita Sari. Thanks for being political tonight. Keep holding up those placards." This was how Australian jazz icon Vince
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Hunter miners: court cripples right to strike
By James Vassilopoulos
Rio Tinto has succeeded in its bid to undermine the picket line at the Hunter Valley No. 1 coal mine. On October 14, the NSW Supreme Court ruled that unionists could
Queanbeyan residents fight for open space
QUEANBEYAN — The Henderson Road Residents' Action Group is pressing ahead with plans for a community barbecue on Sunday, October 19, although NSW State Rail has refused permission. "We are going to
By Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — Students and staff from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology have overwhelmingly rejected the university's decision to introduce up-front fees for over-quota undergraduate places in 1998. The vote sends a
Hinchinbrook: special lease?
By Tim Walgers
BRISBANE — In a new development in conservationists' campaign against the north Queensland Port Hinchinbrook development, it has become clear that no government department will take
By Susan Laszlo
In the countdown to the UN-sponsored climate conference in Kyoto in December, Prime Minister John Howard has stepped up his government's campaign to block the adoption of binding greenhouse gas reduction targets. At a business
By Michael Karadjis
BEIRUT — Bourj al Barajneh camp is home to 20,000 Palestinian refugees, crammed into one square kilometre on the southern outskirts of the city. While life in the camp was always challenging, to say the least, the situation
Not a gamble
Ten years ago, the world of the owners and brokers of stocks and shares took its largest nosedive in the history of capitalist wheeling and dealing. Careers were ruined as stock markets dropped over 20% of their morning values
Brazilian Indian burned alive
By Barry Healy
A Brazilian judge has caused outrage with an extraordinary ruling in the case of the killing of an Indian, Galdino Jesus dos Santos. On September 29 Judge Sandra de Santis Mello ruled that the charge
[Brandon Astor Jones' regular Looking Out column is being omitted this week so that we can bring readers the following account of his trial, written by one of Brandon's correspondents, DIANE POST.] On September 23, I was present in courtroom "R" of
Meeting hears of Indonesian upsurge
By Tuntuni Bhattacharyya
SYDNEY Fifty people attended a politics in the pub on October 17 to hear Edwin Gozal from the Peoples Democratic Party of Indonesia and Max Lane, national secretary of Action in
By Jenny Pierce
ROSARIO, Argentina — "Thirty years since the death of Ernesto Che Guevara, he not only remains vivid in our minds, but also his legacy proves vital in political and cultural debate at the turn of the century." This was the theme
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