Trials of the 280 peace activists arrested at the US base at Nurrungar last Easter continued in the Adelaide Magistrates Court throughout February and early March.
Nearly all the Victorian and South Australian cases have now been "dealt with".
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By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Budget welfare
French protest against youth wage cuts
Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Paris and other major French cities on Saturday, March 12, against government plans to abolish the minimum youth "wage". This minimum, about A$400 per month,
Pension
I was pleased to see mention in the Action Updates (GLW Mar 9) of the fight to retain the age pension at 60 years for women. This campaign was started by three generations of women at the office of the Combined Pensioners Association in
Fred is a loser
Nile saves the world! Apparently that's the headline this self-proclaimed "morals crusader" would prefer. But his latest antics only confirm popular opinion of him as an antiquated, reactionary bigot.
Last week Fred Nile
International Women's Day in Guatemala
By Robyn Marshall
and Robynne Murphy
GUATEMALA CITY, March 8 — More than 5000 women converged on central Guatemala City today, stopping traffic everywhere. Many different indigenous women's groups
Return of the boom bap
KRS-ONE
Jive Records through BMG
Available on cassette and CD
Reviewed by John-Paul Nassif
Rap philosopher and metaphysician KRS-ONE (Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone) is back with a new album. Return
The Sorrow of War
By Bao Ninh
Secker & Warburg, 1993. 217 pp., $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
The one voice rarely heard from the Vietnam War is that of the Vietnamese, drowned by the babel of Hollywood, official Western historians
By Emma Webb
There is a view amongst a section of the green movement that Australian immigration levels must be slashed. The idea that solving Australia's environmental crisis means closing off our borders from the rest of the world is a
By Frank Enright
SYDNEY — As the 1994 Rugby League season got under way, players, through their union, registered their first dispute with the clubs in the Industrial Relations Commission. On March 17 the commission declared that a dispute
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — There's land for sale at Forest Lake. On the outskirts of Brisbane's south-west, you too can settle in "the living forest" and pick up a piece of the continent for as little as $35,000 — or $78,000 if you are after
Building workers on picket line
By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — Police were used to break a picket at a Department of Planning and Development (Ministry of Housing) building site on March 16. The picket was put on the Crown Street,
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