Film festival exposes nuclear industry
Review by Conrad Barnett
The Wild Spaces film festival, which kicks off around the country next week, features documentaries which expose the dangers to people around the world of the nuclear industry. Just
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By Norm Dixon
"Despite the great sympathy in the UK for the Kurdish people, it is not in the public interest for any broadcaster to use the UK as a platform from which to incite people to violence", intoned the chairperson of Britain's Independent
Australia: Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor; Australia East Timor Association NSW; Resistance; Democratic Socialist Party; Tasmanian University Students Union; Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council; Hobart East Timor Committee;
Attempt to galvanise anti-Golkar sentiment
By Max Lane
On May 17 a joint communiqué was signed in Indonesia by the leaders of the three high-profile anti-Golkar political parties. The National Awakening Party's (PKB) Abdurrahman Wahid, the
Fighting for democracy in China
HONG KONG — LEUNG KWOK HUNG and FRANCIS LAU, political activists in Hong Kong since the mid-'70s, talked to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's EVA CHENG about the current state of workers' resistance and the struggle for
By Jonathan Singer
Federal ALP "policy development" and "rethinking" on welfare shows that the party intends to defend and extend the policy it carried out before the Coalition government was elected in 1996. In a speech to the Evatt Foundation on
... and ain't I a woman?: It's serious business!
"It's serious business", said Australian Fashion Week founder Simon Lock as he talked up the week when the fashion industry invests millions to showcase "the latest daring and sexy designs".
VSU: dead in the water?
By Cass Ilia
NEWCASTLE The passage of the federal government's "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation looks increasingly unlikely with Senator Mal Colston announcing last week that he will vote against it. Without
By Norm Dixon
The Fiji Labour Party (FLP), the key partner in Fiji's coalition government deposed almost 12 years ago in a military coup led by Sitiveni Rabuka, scored a big win in Fiji's May 8-15 general election. For the first time, voting was
By Iggy Kim
At first glance, the recent federal budget looks rosy for refugees. The provisions for the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) have extended the Asylum Seeker Assistance (ASA) scheme to "a limited number of people
Stop press: the rich get richer
The London Independent on May 17 reported that the world's richest people are richer than was thought and are getting a lot richer every day.
According to the World Wealth Report by investment bank Merrill Lynch
By Adam Hanieh
RAMALLAH — The Israeli elections on May 17 resulted in a resounding victory for Ehud Barak and the Labour Party over the incumbent Benyamin Netanyahu and Likud. In the vote for prime minister, Barak won 56% to Netanyahu's 44%. In
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