Sarah Stephen, Sydney
"Each of us has to choose between being either a champion of human dignity or a collaborator with an increasingly inhuman system", Sister Susan Connelly from the Mary MacKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies told a crowd
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REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
Harvest of Death: Farmers' Suicides and Rural Starvation in the Shadow of GlobalisationBy V. Shankar and R. VidyasagarPublished by Indian Institute of Marxist Studies 200450 pages
Harvest of Death, a new pamphlet from the
Simon Tayler, Sydney
Transmission by Sydney's community TV station, Channel 31, ceased at midnight on April 23, after the current licence holders, TV Sydney (TVS), refused an offer by the previous licence holders, Community TV Sydney (CTS).
TVS
Jack Cohen-Joppa & Alison Dellit
As he walked out the prison door on April 21, the thumping beat of a police helicopter overhead, the shouts from the press and the cheers and jeers of demonstrators just outside the massive gate may have prevented
In Iraq the Americans are winning the hearts and minds again.A week ago they batonned a man senselesshe refused to remove a poster from his car:the poster was a picture of Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.Were the Americans protecting free speech?Were
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Rio Tinto protest: 'Human rights, not mining sites'
BRISBANE — Anti-nuclear, West Papuan and Indigenous rights advocates joined together on April 22 to picket corporate mining giant Rio Tinto's Australian annual general meeting at the
Shellie Morris performing at the annual Rage Against Racism benefit gig in Darwin. More than 200 people heard local bands and contributed much-needed funds for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne
"Craig Johnston is being targeted because he's a leader, and that's the only reason he's been targeted", Jenny Kruschel, assistant Victorian branch secretary of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA),
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Suicide attempts in Port Hedland
Port Hedland immigration detention centre, in the far north of Western Australia, is the site of deep depression, despair and suicide attempts. All of its 54 prisoners have been there for more than three
Dale T. McKinley, Johannesburg
In the months leading up to South Africa's third national election (which took place on April 14), there was little doubt in anyone's mind that the African National Congress (ANC) was going to win.
Indeed, the main
Doug Lorimer
"There have been 98 [US troop] deaths [in Iraq] by hostile fire so far this month, more than in the opening two weeks of the invasion, when 82 Americans were killed in action", the April 17 San Jose Mercury News reported, adding that
Margaret Gleeson, Sydney
In announcing the new childcare regulations to be introduced into NSW parliament on May 4, Carmel Tebbutt, the Labor minister for community services, revealed that existing ratios of one staff member to five babies (0-2
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