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Watch Committee for Victoria

Watch Committee for Victoria MELBOURNE — Around 50 people attended a January 28 meeting to establish an Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee for Victoria. Late last year, five men and one woman died in private prisons. The usual

Asian crisis: why capitalism is crumbling

Asian crisis: why capitalism is crumbling By John Percy The Communist Manifesto ushered in a new epoch in human history. It described and projected the process of change from capitalism to socialism, the coming to power of the working class.

Jazz Against Racism

Jazz Against Racism By John Gauci SYDNEY — What better way to protest against racism than through an art form whose roots are historically grounded in the struggle of an oppressed people? Jazz literally means "wildly active" or "lively". On

Government moves against sole parents

Sole parents will have a lengthy waiting period before being paid social security under provisions buried in the proposed Parenting Payment Bill currently before parliament. The bill fuses the sole parent pension with the current parenting allowance

Suharto's business empire

Suharto's business empire By George J. Aditjondro Seeking an "official" mandate for his seventh term through the puppet Congress (MPR) on March 11, Indonesian President Suharto is currently facing the strongest opposition from within his own

Taxation ruling raises cost of studying

Taxation ruling raises cost of studying By Will Williams CANBERRA — The Australian Taxation Office is circulating a draft ruling that would cut students' already meagre incomes. The February 13 closing date for submissions on the draft, titled

Wharfies seek solidarity

Wharfies seek solidarity By Graham Mathews BRISBANE — Wharfies here are ready to defend their wages and conditions. With small victories over the Liberal government last year in the Cairns dispute and over the Dubai fiasco, their morale is

Ramos Horta on the 'winds of change in Asia'

Ramos Horta on the 'winds of change in Asia' By Rohan Gaiswinkler DARWIN — 250 people heard Jose Ramos Horta, international representative of the East Timor independence movement, give a public lecture entitled "The winds of change in eastern

Review of the NSW Bail Act

By Tim Anderson SYDNEY — Following the killing of two schoolgirls on the south coast last year, and the revelation that one of those charged with murder had been on bail for another offence, a review of the Bail Act 1978 was directed by the NSW

The pope in Cuba: 'Everyone's a winner but the US'

The pope in Cuba: 'Everyone's a winner but the US' By Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — While the pope's visit to Cuba was officially billed as a "pastoral visit" to Catholics at the invitation of their bishops, the world's attention was nevertheless

Today's tasks: ten-point justice

Today's tasks: ten-point justice "Our ten points: a long-range policy for Aborigines" was adopted at the 1938 Day of Mourning and Protest held in Australian Hall, and published in the first edition of the Australian Abo Call newspaper in April

New WA anti-graffiti laws

New WA anti-graffiti laws By Sean Martin-Iverson PERTH — The state Liberal government has moved to make WA's already draconian anti-graffiti laws even harsher. The existing legislation, which allows for penalties of 200 hours of community