By Shane Hopkinson
NEWCASTLE — Well-known environmentalist Dr David Suzuki addressed a packed house here on April 14. Some 1300 people turned up to hear him give the first Citizenship and Governance lecture. Suzuki began with a grim assessment
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Between 10,000 and 15,000 PDI supporters massed on the streets of Jakarta outside the parliament on April 15, demanding that the elected leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI), Megawati Sukarnoputri, be allowed to participate in the May 29
Pollution law exemption condemned
By Bill Mason
@box text intro = BRISBANE — Environmentalists have slammed a plan by the Queensland government to exempt the mining giant Mount Isa Mines from stricter national air quality standards to be
Another nuclear accident in Japan
By Eva Cheng
Yet another nuclear accident struck Japan on April 14, and the nuclear operating authority once again failed to report it to the central government immediately for possibly crucial emergency
The changes to Medicare already introduced by the Howard government include slashing new doctors' access to Medicare provider numbers, abolition of rebates for reversal of sterilisation, reduced rebates for some IVF procedures and for psychiatric
By Marina Cameron
As part of a drive to channel money away from the public sector and into private hands, the government is looking for further ways to cut funding to higher education. After cutting $2.3 billion from university operating grants
By Gerry Harant
After the end of World War II, everybody predicted that the capitalist economic system would be coming to an almost instant sticky end. The world Communist parties knew it; the US establishment feared it and ran an intensive
University delegation in East Timor
By Pavel Slodowy
MELBOURNE — A meeting between East Timorese guerilla leader David Alex and a delegation of Melbourne students in February was filmed by University Students for East Timor (USET). Six
Four Penan tribes people were arrested and tortured by the Malaysia police field force on March 13, when they were trying to negotiate with the logging company, Samling, near their village at Long Kerong. One, Jangin Jalong, was beaten at the
Students win reinstatement of council
By Rachel Wilson
SYDNEY — It seems university vice-chancellors country-wide have learned a valuable lesson from the national day of action on March 26. The effectiveness of both the rally and the
Solidarity forums for Bougainville
By Amanda Lawrence
CANBERRA — On April 14, around 45 people attended a public meeting and film showing organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement. The film graphically detailed the environmental
By Sujatha Fernandes
On March 31, Chandrashekar Prasad and Shyam Narain Yadav were shot dead in the north Bihar district town of Siwan while addressing street corner meetings to build a strike called by the Communist Party of India Marxist
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