'... shake your hand'
By Brandon Astor Jones
According to page 5 of the Cobb County Sheriff's Office Adult Detention Facility, Inmate Handbook, "Except for legal and media mail ... [a]ll outgoing mail must be unsealed'", so I will
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Bathurst snubs Hanson
By Emma Nicholson
BATHURST — A tour by Pauline Hanson of NSW's central western region has been met by anti-racist demonstrations. The largest of these was here on August 19, when some 1000 Charles Sturt University
By Rupen Savoulian
Alarm bells are now ringing in Washington and Islamabad, because the Afghanistan opposition forces, led by General Ahmad Shah Masood, have pounded the Taliban out of northern Afghanistan and are on the outskirts of the
By Peter Montague
Toxic Deception, the new must-read book by investigative reporters Dan Fagin and Marianne Lavelle, is subtitled, "How the chemical industry manipulates science, bends the law, and endangers your health." The book documents a
Students seize Tasmania Uni building
By Kylie Moon
HOBART — Three hundred students rallied on Tasmania University on August 20 in protest at university plans to cut services. The planned cuts include the amalgamation of three libraries, a
East Timor: Suharto snubs Mandela
By Jill Hickson
On August 17, Indonesian Independence Day, the Indonesian minister of justice, Oetoeyo Oesman, announced that the 20-year prison sentence of Xanana Gusmao, president of the National
LibertariasDirected by Vincente ArandaDendy Films Review by Marina Cameron
Libertarias is a fantastic and inspiring look at the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of a group of women who fight to play their part in the struggle for
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — The state Rundle Liberal government has announced plans for a November 29 referendum on parliamentary change. The referendum would ask two questions: whether to reduce Tasmania's parliamentarians from 54 to 40, and, if
Medieval
"A big company is like a medieval court because the person in charge has unquestioned power." — Paul Birch, employed as a "corporate jester" to lighten the mood at British Airways.
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"There is no reason why women should
A Bunch of Leaves
Around my door, the oak leavesAre tarnished bronze scalesFrom Etruscan armour, I can count them,And in my arc of view,Platoons of them wait the wind;
Looking at each of theseI think of all the East TimoreseAnd name each
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Queensland Coalition government is sinking, with a motion of no confidence in Liberal attorney-general Denver Beanland rocking state parliament, and revelations of an alleged police and judicial cover-up of
By Sarah Wilson
Over recent months, Aboriginal and environment groups have united to campaign against the proposed uranium mine at Jabiluka in Kakadu. They argue that the mine is irreconcilable with both the wishes of the traditional owners and
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