BY JULIA PERKINS
In the hands of a people's movement, culture can be a fine weapon. That was certainly proven the case on August 17 when the Indonesian military repressed a people's carnival organised by the national cultural network, JAKER, in
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BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — In a dramatic legal turn-around which has enraged the developers of Hindmarsh Island but sparked celebration among Aboriginal people in South Australia, Justice John von Doussa has backed the long-held claims of
BY STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA — The socialist youth group Resistance will be contesting the Australian National University Student Association (SA) elections during the first week of September. Resistance is running for the positions of president,
Protesters target ALP 'scab'
DAPTO — A small but spirited group held a picket outside NSW Labor parliamentarian Marianne Saliba's office on August 20, in protest at her "scabbing" on the picket line at NSW Parliament House in June.
The
BY EVA CHENG
The United States has scored another victory in its long campaign to ensure China pays dearly to enter the World Trade Organisation, forcing the country to agree to limits on agricultural subsidies tougher than those on other Third
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
BRISBANE — The traditional owners of Brisbane and surrounding areas will throw their backing behind planned protest plans against the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October, deciding at a mass meeting at Musgrave
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — "A new era for the territory begins today", proclaimed the August 23 NT News editorial, the day after Chief Minister Denis Burke formally conceded that the 26-year reign of the Country Liberal Party over the Northern
BY JON LAND
The August 30 election for East Timor's Constituent Assembly signifies an important step towards the conclusion of the United Nations transitional administration. As the UN starts to gradually wind back operations and hand over more
BY NORM DIXON
On the eve of the August 27-September 7 United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, the South African government has announced plans to penalise "instigators" of so-called "land invasions".
On August 13, housing
BY SEAN HEALY
A top official of one of the world's most powerful financial institutions, the International Monetary Fund, has admitted what many people long suspected: that the IMF feels it has no responsibility to comply with human rights treaties
BY SEAN WALSH & SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — Would politicians survive Big Brother? This was the contentious and very important question posed at a 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly fundraising evening held in the Brunswick Town Hall on August 23 and attended by 100
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — The Community and Public Sector Union has announced it will join an independent inquiry, launched by a range of community organisations, into the federal government's "breaching" policy, which has led to Centrelink
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