Deirdre Griswold
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 has become a huge box office hit, even though the Disney Corporation did everything it could to torpedo the documentary. This alone makes it important to evaluate the film and try to understand why
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Compassionate
On August 18, I received a letter from [immigration minister] Amanda Vanstone. She says: "We should not allow the debate about failed asylum seekers who arrived unauthorised by boats to detract from Australia's generous and
An August 21 dinner organised to raise funds for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly and the Socialist Alliance turned into a celebration of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution, after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez easily defeated a recall referendum on August 15.
Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, chairperson of the Alola Foundation and wife of East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao, addressed a public meeting attended by 100 people at the Australia Institute for International Affairs in Canberra on August 2. This is an
Review by Sarah Stephen
Vicious Streaks: Seven Stories for the New WorldWritten by Alex BrounDirected by George Ogilvie & Lee LewisDarlinghurst Theatre, Greenknowe Avenue, Potts Pointuntil September 4$27/$21 Bookings (02) 8356 9987
"It's about an
Sarah Stephen
On August 16, we finally got confirmation that PM John Howard deliberately lied when he claimed, days before the 2001 federal election, that there was proof that asylum seekers on the Olong threw their children overboard. The welcome
Lee Sustar, Caracas
Venezuela's poor met the news of Hugo Chavez's referendum victory with joy. Thousands of people from the nearby barrio of Catia jammed the streets around Miraflores, the presidential palace, just as they did in April 2002 to
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is an "unprecedented revolution in participatory democracy", Leonel Vivas, Venezuelan ambassador to Australia, told an audience of around 70 people on August 7.
When Hugo Chavez was
Simon Butler
It Can't Happen Here: A Political History of Student ActivismBy Graham HastingsEmpire Times Press, Adelaide, 2003$30 (pb)
On September 27, 1971, five student draft resisters who had refused to fight in the Vietnam War announced to
Socialist Alliance member Alex Bainbridge and environmental activist Jimi Cocking outside the Launceston Magistrate's Court on August 17, after police dropped charges against them. The two activists had been arrested protesting against PM John
Chris Slee, Melbourne
East Timorese foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta, addressing a meeting of 500 people in Hawthorn Town Hall on August 13, explained his proposed solution to the disagreement with Australia over the Timor Gap.
He outlined the
Roberto Jorquera
Thousands of Venezuelans gathered outside the Miraflores presidential palace on August 16 to hear radical left-wing President Hugo Chavez claim victory soon after the National Electoral College (CNE) released the results of a
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