BY EDWARD SAID
The events of the past four weeks in Palestine have been a near-total triumph for Zionism in the United States for the first time since the modern re-emergence of the Palestinian national movement in the late 1960s. Political as well
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In September, Mifepristone, better known as RU486, was finally approved
by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in early pregnancy
abortions. Despite having been safely administered in France, where it
is now used in one third of
BY JON LAND
On November 5, the Channel 9 Sunday program screened a special report titled "On Patrol in Timor", which claimed to show "how moderate militia factions are politically battling hardline groups still ready to attack the UN peacekeepers".
Peddling baloney
Eating McDonald's hamburgers and fries reflects "an individualistic relationship between man and God which goes back to [Martin] Luther". — Catholic theologian Massimo Salami writing in the Italian bishops' daily Avvenire.
BY MELODY COUTMAN & ALISON DELLIT
NEWCASTLE — The ballots cast in the Newcastle University Student Association (NUSA) presidential by-election on November 6-7 are to be destroyed uncounted, following a decision by the NUSA executive to uphold the
SARI KASSIS from Friends of Palestine spoke at a 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly forum in Sydney on November 1. The following is an abridged version of his speech.
I am a card-carrying Palestinian. The card is a small orange identity card. This card doesn't so
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
In the past week, the University of Canberra Students Association and the Wollongong University Student Representative Council have added their support to the "Global Action for Global Justice" student solidarity conference
BY PAM CURRIE
BRISBANE — A November 7 forum here heard a member of the local Palestinian community, Saleh, and Democratic Socialist Party activist Stan Thompson, speak on the situation in Palestine.
Saleh gave a detailed introduction to the
BY MELANIE SJOBERGAND BRONWEN POWELL
WOLLONGONG — Four thousand BHP Port Kembla workers voted for a 24-hour strike after an angry debate at a stopwork meeting here on November 9.
"This is about job security", Graham Roberts, Australian Workers
BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — How can you fight the boss for a pay rise when the boss locks you out of work for the next six months? This is the question workers had to grapple with at Brownbuilt, an office furniture factory in Oakleigh South.
BY TYRION PERKINS
CANBERRA — On the border of the ACT lies Mount Jerrabomberra, a landmark of Queanbeyan and one of the last mountains in the region with rare native plant species. Despite its listing as National Estate by the Australian Heritage
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
Filled with excitement, anticipation and a fair amount of anxiety, I arrived at 6am outside Melbourne's Crown Casino on Monday, September 11 to meet up with the other marshals from the S11 Alliance to organise the blockade of
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