By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — Around 120 people were addressed by Aboriginal elders and and other activists opposed to uranium mining at a public meeting on March 22 organised by the Jabiluka Action Group. Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott spoke about the
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By Norm Dixon
Britain's Independent Television Commission on March 22 suspended the license of the Kurdish satellite television station, Med TV, for 21 days, forcing it to cease broadcasting. The ban followed the station's screening of live footage
By Jim Green
The plan to dump 75,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste in South Australia or Western Australia is gaining increasing support. The plan came to light in December when a promotional video produced by Pangea Resources was leaked.
Anti-nuclear forum
By Keara Courtney
SYDNEY — Dr Helen Caldicott and Dr Jim Green condemned the federal
government's pro-nuclear push — which includes giving the go ahead to
a new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney's
By Sue Boland
The federal and state governments are midway through a review of community legal centres (CLCs) throughout Australia. A key objective is to restrict CLCs' involvement in legal reform campaigns and prisoners' rights and force them to
By Peter Boyle
SYDNEY — You wouldn't know it from the establishment media's coverage of the result of the March 27 NSW state election, but its greatest significance was the rebuff of the ruling class's privatisation drive by a whopping 56% of
By Chris Caston
What is the role of the education system in capitalist society? School is certainly not about helping to develop freethinking people with the courage to act on their convictions. The school system encourages competition more than
By Jacqui Moon
MELBOURNE — People in white radiation suits and with green faces will be appearing at high schools as part of a street theatre organised by Resistance to show the dangers of the nuclear industry. High school students will walk out
Cuba denounces US 'human rights' hypocrisy
At the session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva on March 24, Cuba's vice-president, Dr Carlos Lage Davila, replied to charges by the US government that in Cuba there has been a
By Barry Sheppard
Taking a break from the daily bombing of Iraq, US-led NATO forces are escalating the bombing of Yugoslavia, threatening a wider war. This underscores the determination of the US ruling class to build up its already massive
Bridging the divide
HAVANA — On April 1, the Baltimore Orioles became the first US major league baseball team to play on Cuban soil in 40 years. After the game, musicians from both nations danced the night away at an all-star concert to bridge
MUA election issues begin to surface
By Dick Nichols
Last week, seafarer members of the Maritime Union of Australia attending their monthly stop-work meeting were given the latest issue of Voice, the journal of the Maritime Unionists Socialist
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