BY GILBERT HOLMES
BRISBANE — A determined band of activists are preparing a blockade in an effort to save Brisbane's last piece of inner-city bushland. The two hectares of bushland, known as "The Gully", have received council approval for a
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In the Blue HouseBy Meaghan DelahuntBloomsbury, 2001$35 (hb)
REVIEW BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON
There are few historical figures on the left who provoke such controversy, inspiration and opposition as that of the Russian revolutionary leader, Leon
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
BADJA FOREST — The South East Forest Rescue Squad of about 30 activists is blockading two roads, one of them recently bulldozed, to stop logging in the old-growth Badja Forest wilderness on the escarpment overlooking the NSW south
@box text intr = A global campaign to overturn a US patent on basmati rice has scored a further and near-fatal victory with the announcement that the US Patent and Trademark Office has thrown out 13 of 16 remaining claims from US-based RiceTec's
BY SEAN HEALY
A majority of people put more trust in the groups who protest outside the summits of major international institutions to operate in the best interests of society than in the representatives of governments and corporations inside the
The Scottish Socialist Party office in Glasgow has been inundated with
requests from teachers for campaign packs for school pupils holding mock
elections.
One teacher phoning from a school in the Gorbals told the party that
she has been
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS & CHRIS SLEEÂ
MELBOURNE — “Growing up in this area, I understand that working families
are doing it tough. Too many people are worried about losing their jobs
or about getting by with casual work”, said Josephine
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Imagine this: it's 2005, and a fundamentalist Christian regime has come to power in New Zealand. In its effort to consolidate power, it is undertaking a campaign of systematic persecution of all those who have organised against it
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Approximately 20 people came to an M1 Sydney meeting to discuss what the anti-corporate movement would do in Sydney in relation to October 3-5 Commonwealth Business Council forum meeting in Melbourne and the October 6-8
AsylumDirected by Claudia Chidiac54 Joseph St, LidcombeShowing May 31-June 9
REVIEW BY VIV MILEY
SYDNEY — From the moment you arrive at the venue — a vacant wallpaper shop in Lidcombe — there is a sense of unease. In the main room is an
Greed is good — for the rich only
"The ACA story on Monday was all about inflaming the mean, envious streak in Australians that confuses success with wrongdoing... It is a characteristic we should endeavour to suppress, not cultivate like a
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — On May 30, an alliance of members of parliament from Golkar (the party of former Indonesian dictator Suharto), the armed forces (TNI), the muslim right-wing Central Axis parties and vice-president Megawati Sukarnoputri's
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