ALP rejects funding for East Timor
The Victorian branch of the ALP has voted against a proposal to provide the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT) with $5000 for urgent reconstruction work in East Timor. The motion, proposed by the Labor
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By Jim Green
Australia faces "massive economic, environment and social challenges" due to excessive concentrations of salts in soils and waterways, according to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Arresting the
Keep your finger on the pulse
Just because 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly is taking a break for the next six weeks, you don't have to lose touch with what's going on in the green and left movements.
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's TV show in Sydney (on channel 31) will
Well, yes
"It shows that the little man ... can ... get justice. However, the fact that it took him nine years to do it proves that the system does have its problems." — Tasmanian Senator Paul Calvert on Geoff Marr, who had just won an unfair
See you next year
This is the last issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly for 1999. The next issue will be published on January 19 — don't miss it!
Radical LA band to play free
By Norm Dixon
SYDNEY — Ozomatli, a politically and musically incendiary band from Los Angeles' sprawling and distressed working-class suburbs, is coming to Sydney for three free concerts at Darling Harbour. No
By Jon Land
As investigations by both the United Nations and the Indonesian Human Rights Commission continue into the Indonesian military's involvement in the killing and destruction which took place in East Timor, the Howard government remains
Helping
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Just as [we] made a successful commitment to ensuring that every child has access to public education starting at age 5, we must commit ourselves to ensuring that in the 21st century every child in America has
Orwell, Darwin-style
By Bridget Riggs
DARWIN — Using creative licence and a line from George Orwell's famous book Animal Farm, a new musical collective of the same name is attempting to combat the "all bands are equal, some are more equal than
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The future of Pakistan's military regime
By Farooq Tariq
The new regime of General Pervaiz Musharraf argues that the Nawaz Sharif government, which it overthrew in a military coup in October, was not able to save the system from a total
Protest against forced deportations
SYDNEY — More than 30 members and supporters of the Burmese community protested outside the Thai consul general's office on December 2 to call for an immediate halt to the forced deportation of Burmese
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