Kylie Moon, Sydney
Family and friends were angry and in tears on August 14 after hearing the NSW coroner's findings on the death of the 17-year-old son of Gail Hickey. Coroner John Abernathy described the February 14 fatality in Redfern as a "freak
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Chris Latham, Perth
On August 17, 40 police broke up the six-week-old Forest Rescuers' protest camp in the Ludlow Forest near Busselton in south-west Western Australia, evicting 70 protesters.
The move against the camp followed the granting of
MELBOURNE — On August 17, a range of speakers addressed a public forum organised by the Darebin Ethnic Communities Council on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Malcolm Witton, Victorian manager of World Vision,
Jenny Long, Sydney
Following two weeks of rolling 24-hour stoppages, cleaners from 100 public schools and TAFE colleges across inner-city Sydney mounted community information pickets at their schools before rallying at the office of NSW education
Alex Milne, Melbourne
On August 16, a public forum held in the Melbourne Town Hall heard speakers address a variety of nuclear-related issues, including the new nuclear reactor being constructed at Lucas Heights in suburban Sydney and the
Every night of the year 100,000 Australians are homeless.
Of these, 36,000 are homeless children.
Domestic and family violence is the most common reason for people seeking emergency accommodation.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Malik Miah, San Francisco
Throughout the second half of the 20th century, the trade unions in the United States were regarded by working people as the preeminent vehicles for the defence of labour's interests because they won the best wages, health
Rachel Evans
On August 13, the federal government and the Labor opposition voted in the Senate to ban same-sex marriage by passing the Marriage Amendment Act, which defines marriage as being exclusively between a man and a woman.
The legislation
Review by Paul Benedek
The President Versus David HicksWritten and directed by Curtis Levy & Bentley DeanScreening nationally
"When we took on this film project we were going to follow the legal proceedings around the arrest of David Hicks",
Omar Karmi, Ramallah
"My daughter has only seen her father twice in her life", said one woman. "It's been two months since I last saw my husband." A young boy, in a faltering voice, then recited a poem he had written to his father, also a prisoner,
SYDNEY — Anne Gardiner, an opposition candidate for general secretary of the Public Service Association (PSA), the union covering state public servants in NSW and general staff on NSW universities, has described NSW Liberal Party leader John
Sarah Stephen
The Justice Project was launched in early July in front of a crowd of 4000 in the Melbourne Town Hall. Its members include barrister and refugee campaigner Julian Burnside, academic Robert Manne, former Liberal prime minister Malcolm
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