Neo-Nazi thugs offer their services to Hanson
By Norm Dixon
The Queensland director of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party, Peter James, said on August 6 that the party would accept "support" offered to it by the Adelaide-based neo-Nazi outfit,
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By Susan Price
MELBOURNE — More than 50 protesters held a speak-out at the State Library on August 8 calling for the repeal of abortion laws in Australia. The action, organised by the Pro-Choice Coalition, was part of a national day of action on
Comment by Jenny Forward
HOBART — The August 29 Tasmanian elections are a crucial point for progressive politics here. For several years, the strength of the environment movement and the proportional Hare-Clark parliamentary system have combined
"In East Timor they torture us physically; in Australia they do it mentally." — Henrique Lay, East Timorese asylum seeker A network of more than 10,000 Australians stands ready to defy federal law on behalf of East Timorese asylum seekers, but more
By Sue Boland
If you believed the hype, you would think that everyone — rich and poor — will be better off under the new Howard-Costello tax plan. But it's not possible for something to benefit both rich and poor, both bosses and workers. A
No Nukes!
For several months, hundreds of anti-uranium and land rights activists have been blockading the Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu. Thousands have also shown their opposition to the mine with rallies, pickets, information stalls and public
Poem: Ad-junked
Ad-junked
Selling dreams, selling schemesSelling creams for your face and your stomachCars, computers, insurance, blue jeans and dessertsShares, holidays, property, alcohol and soapWith a little bit of glamour they're peddling
Dita Sari: 'Habibie is Suhartoism without Suharto'
JAKARTA — Â鶹ӳ» Weekly's JULIA PERKINS recently spoke to DITA SARI, People's Democratic Party (PRD) leader and chairperson of the Centre for Indonesian Labour Struggle, in Tangerang women's
By Nick Everett
"I have been threatened with being bashed, with being shot, and I have had customers scream so loud that it hurt my ear. I have had a customer in a public phone box smash the hand set into the payphone, causing my ear to ring."
"We don't work for consumers in Argentina or Africa, and we don't care about public health issues there." That was how the US deputy assistant trade representative for intellectual property responded two years ago to a suggestion that the US trade representative (USTR) should approach pharmaceutical patent policies as a public health issue rather than as a trade issue.
Pathfinder Bookshop attacked
SYDNEY — The Pathfinder Bookshop, which shares its office with the Communist League, was vandalised on August 9 by an organisation called White Aryan Resistance.
The front of the shop was scrawled with the slogan:
Resistance against racism: walkout on August 28
By Sarah Peart
Despite claims to the contrary, the Howard government's latest plan to overhaul funding to Abstudy and tighten the definition of "Aboriginality" is a blatantly racist one. While the
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