Human rights body criticises embargo
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a legal tribunal within the Organisation of American States, is urging the US government to end restrictions on the shipment of medicine and basic foods to
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Beyond the elections
At a time of rising anger against the two major parties, in particular the Labor Party, many people are looking around for a progressive alternative. The many Labor betrayals on so many important issues will, we hope, result
Professor Tony Vinson, former head of the NSW prisons system before he was sacked by the Wran Labor government, works in the Department of Social Work at the University of New South Wales. An outspoken advocate for progressive reform of the criminal
Protest for East Timor
By Jon Lamb
ADELAIDE — A noisy and vibrant crowd protested against military aid to Indonesia outside the Australian Defence Force Recruiting office here on March 17. The action was organised by Resistance, Aksi —
WA Legal Service resists law and order push
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — The WA Court Liberal government boasts a number of "firsts" in the law-and-order game. It was the first to conduct organised police operations against "loitering youth"
As the head of the Greens' Legislative Council ticket, long-term peace and environmental activist IAN COHEN has a good chance of being elected the first Green member of the NSW parliament on March 25. (He missed out by only a few hundred votes in the
We have to rely on ourselves
Kamala Emanuel
Women are still facing oppression, manifest in many ways, in spite of the undisputed gains of the first and second waves of feminism. Domestic work is still carried out mostly by women, and in
Sinn Fein condemns embargo
Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican party, passed the following resolution at its February 25-26 national conference (Ard Fheis).
"That This Ard Fheis unreservedly condemns as a disgrace the Dublin government's
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