Uranium: leave it in the ground!
By Jennifer Thompson
The Australian government's gentle protests over French nuclear testing plans cannot conceal Australia's role in creating and maintaining the nuclear danger. Australian diplomats were
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The nuclear threat
The latest move, led by the French government, to consolidate and strengthen the world's nuclear weapons capability makes a mockery of the so-called New World Order. If this is indeed an era of diplomacy and negotiated peace,
By Kath Davey
A new report from Amnesty International, titled Persistent Human Rights Violations in Tibet, indicates that repression of dissent there has increased. Hundreds of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns, some of them child novices, are
Uranium sales condemned
By Anne Pavy
PERTH — At a media conference on June 21, the Greens (WA), the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, People for Nuclear Disarmament and Christian Centre for Social Action condemned the
This week Â鶹ӳ» Weekly received a postcard from a subscriber. The card expressed the subscriber's concern that she hadn't received a copy of the paper for some time. The reason? She has moved to Japan, and wanted to know if we could send her
By Chow Wei-Cheng
In preparation for the federal elections, the ALP and ACTU have unveiled another Accord agreement. It promises a low inflation target (2-3% per year) in return for "safety net" pay increases totalling up to $50 per week by the
A prisoner's view
As a prisoner in the planned to be closed Pentridge Prison in Melbourne, I found Catherine Gow's article "Prisons for Profit" (GLW, May 17) to be refreshingly honest and open as opposed to the uninformative white-washes with
Message to Vietnam forum
A Democratic Socialist Party forum in Sydney on June 6 celebrated the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and discussed the lessons of the struggle against it. The following greetings to the forum were presented by
The Color of Fear
A film by Lee Mun Wah
Reviewed by Chris McLean
Arthur Tunstall's anti-Aboriginal jokes, National Action's anti-Asian campaigns and the widespread verbal abuse of Aboriginal footballers have been loudly condemned in the
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — A one-day "nuclear showdown" conference, focusing on anti-nuclear campaigning, was organised here on May 27 by People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND), the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) and Critical
By Melanie Sjoberg
The debate about whether a bridge to Hindmarsh Island should be built has focused on the spiritual beliefs of Aboriginal women in relation to the site. Â鶹ӳ» Weekly spoke to Katrina Power, chairperson of Tandanya
By Jeannine Purdy
PERTH — Non-Aboriginal Western Australians commemorated the founding of the Swan River Colony on June 5. They have learned the story of the "settlement" of their state, of Perth in particular, as one in which Aboriginal
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