BY SARAH STEPHEN
Woomera detention centre is hell on Earth. Located in the middle of the South Australian desert, it can reach 40 degrees in summer and is freezing cold in winter. There are no trees or shade, nothing but the scorching sun. Opened
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. Visit
BY MAX LANE
The Australia Indonesia Institute (AII) is advertised as a body promoting people-to-people relations between Australia and Indonesia. Its real role in defending the political status quo in Indonesia and Australia has been revealed by a
BY LISA MacDONALD
SYDNEY — NSW Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon called on January 22 for the state electoral commissioner to "clean out any potential spoiler parties" that aim to contest the next election.
There is little doubt that there are bogus
BY LISA LINES
ADELAIDE — Abbas is one of the many hundreds of refugees who fled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and made their way to Australia. He is one of the few lucky enough to have had his application for a temporary protection visa
SYDNEY — Gaywaves, the gay and lesbian radio program broadcast on Radio 2SER FM, is looking for people interested in helping to produce the show.
Gaywaves is run by a small collective. Its aims include affirming gay and lesbian identity and
The Coalition government is facing a serious political crisis. The desperate and heroic actions of more than 300 hunger strikers at Woomera and Maribyrnong detention centres have again focused the spotlight on the inhumanity and illegality of the
Below are excerpts from a leaflet distributed in January at New York screenings of Black Hawk Down by the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) anti-war coalition.
In his review of Black Hawk Down, New York Times movie reviewer Elvis Mitchell
BY SUE BOLTON
A heated dispute which broke out in November within the New Zealand Alliance over its MPs support for the sending of SAS troops to participate in the US-led war in Afghanistan appears to have ended in a compromise.
After a vigorous
ADELAIDE — One of the key policies for the Socialist Alliance in campaign for the February 9 South Australian election is refugee rights. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's JO ELLIS spoke to TOM BERTULEIT, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Adelaide.
Imagine that your cupboard was also a dishwasher — simply pile in dirty dishes, and don't bother taking them out until they are needed again. Imagine a self-cleaning toilet. What about having your clothes washed and dried in the same closet you
BY PETER BOYLE
Progressive movements worldwide are under pressure from the US-led "war on terrorism" (actually a war against the Third World) and the associated ideological offensive against global solidarity. The world's corporate rulers and their
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