Review by Lachlan Malloch
Fahrenheit 9/11Written and directed by Michael MooreAt cinemas everywhere
"[This] documentary has managed to ignite a fire in the collective belly of the American public", declared a Kansas City movie-goer after
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Chris Latham, Perth
On July 22, Australian Education Union WA school representatives condemned state education minister Allan Carpenter for planned unilateral changes to teachers' working conditions.
On July 8, two days prior to the end of second
Susan Connolly
One of the splendid things about human beings is our capacity to imagine an alternative future. This is part of the backbone of hope — hope in the conviction that life contains promise and some growth. We are at a time where we are
Peter Verney
At last, the catastrophe in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, a quarter of whose 6 million people are now displaced by war and whose lives are at serious risk as the rainy season begins, has gained international attention.
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Sarah Stephen
On July 14, officers from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) forcibly moved four families from the Villawood detention centre in Sydney's south-west to the Baxter prison in the South
Trent Hawkins, Perth
Since the passing of the Nelson legislation, allowing universities to increase HECS fees by as much as 25%, 26 universities have voted to increase their HECS fees. Most have done so by the full 25%.
While the Coalition
DARWIN — A Timor Sea Justice Campaign public meeting and video night on July 21 heard the latest developments in the campaign to stop the Australian government's theft of East Timor's oil and gas resources.
Solidarity activist Robyn Waite, who
Chris Williams
Outside cinemas around the country, a new "parliament of the streets" is developing as people discuss and debate Michael Moore's new film, Fahrenheit 9/11. Cinemas have been packed out by people attending previews of what is fast
Ray Jackson
On St. Valentines Day, February 14, the Young Man from Kamilaroi — the 17-year-old son of Gail Hickey — was impaled on a metal fence in Waterloo. He died the next morning of his horrific injuries. The following day the so-called
Protests mark World Bank's 60th birthday
On July 22, activists around the world marked the World Bank's 60th birthday with a global day of protest. Protests were held in Jakarta, London, Geneva, Lima and Washington DC. In Potosi, a Bolivian mining
In the editorial in GLW #590, Kim Beazley was incorrectly described as the Hawke Labor government's defence minister at the time of the 1991 Gulf War. Beazley was defence minister in the Hawke government from 1984 until 1990. At the time of 1991 Gulf
CANBERRA — Destruction of Canberra Nature Reserve by the ACT Labor government to make way for the Gungahlin Drive extension. A Save the Ridge protest rally took place at the site on July 24.
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