Fallout: Hedley Marston and the British Bomb Tests in AustraliaBy Roger CrossWakefield Press, 2001187 pages, $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY JIM GREEN
Fallout recounts the story of the cabal of British and Australian politicians, bureaucrats and scientists
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BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
Anti-corporate protesters are planning huge protests when heads of government of the Group of Eight (G8) leading industrial powers come to the Italian port city of Genoa on July 20. The peaceful civil disobedience actions,
BY JON LAND
Three activists from the Acehnese Democratic Peoples Resistance Front were detained by police in Banda Aceh on July 11 during a protest against the United States-based company ExxonMobil.
The three activists — Kautsar, chairperson
BY JIM GREEN
Forests and farmland eaten up, watersheds paved over, noise and air pollution from road traffic — a seemingly endless list of problems confronts the 2.85 billion people who reside in urban agglomerations. And the problem is rapidly
BY SARAH STEPHEN
SYDNEY — Oleg and Nicolae Cujba, two cousins from Moldova, arrived in Australia on October 13 for what they hoped would be a pleasant holiday.
Instead, after being questioned at the airport by officials from the Department of
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
Thousands of students participated in the September 11-13 blockade of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, thousands more participated in the May 1 stock exchange blockades. The S11 and M1 protests have rejuvenated student
BY EWAN SAUNDERS
BRISBANE — Plans are well underway for a mass people's march and convergence on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October after more than 30 anti-corporate, environmental, indigenous and social justice activists
@box text intr = Dear friends, we are writing this letter to you in response to the request from the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) for financial assistance in the upcoming elections for the constituent assembly in East Timor.
The elections
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — The announcement on July 8 by Queensland federal MP Bob Katter that he was resigning from the federal National Party has sent shock waves through the Coalition parties.
Katter denied he was deserting a "sinking ship",
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
"At the beginning of the Aston by-election campaign, Socialist Alliance had one member in the electorate of Aston," the alliance's Aston campaign coordinator David Glanz told a post-election Socialist Alliance celebration on July
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
"Balaclava-clad hoons", "busted-up offices", "terrorised staff", "union officials arrested" — these are the lurid makings of a corporate media scare campaign against the leaders of the militant Victorian branch of the
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"The last Republican who actually did something good for African-Americans was the so-called 'Great Emancipator', Abraham Lincoln. It should be noted that the good he did was motivated by his party's need for political expediency
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