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Green groups slam SE Qld regional plan
BRISBANE — Conservation organisations have criticised the Queensland government's draft south-east Queensland regional plan, released for public comment on October 27, labelling it a sham and a threat
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UWA NTEU supports jailed unionist
PERTH — On October 27, the University of Western Australia branch committee of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) passed a motion expressing concern at the jailing of Victorian trade unionist
Frederico Fuentes
Facing extradition proceedings to stand trial in Bolivia for the deaths of 67 people during the October 2003 popular uprising that forced his resignation, former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada told the October 22
Nicole Hilder, Wollongong
Refusing to be intimidated by the September 19 fire-bombing of the Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the "Sandonistas" — Save Sandon Point activists — continue to take on the NSW government, Wollongong Council and
The Chequebook and the Cruise-Missile: Conversations with Arundhati RoyBy David BarsamianHarper Perennial, 2004178 pages, $22.95 (tpb)
Review by Lachlan Malloch
Arundhati Roy is usually introduced as "the Indian writer who won the 1997 Booker
Since Howard's federal election victory on October 9, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's website has had a huge surge of visitors.
It seems that many people, faced with the horrible prospect of three more years of Coalition government attacks on workers,
Sarah Stephen
Hundreds of people have responded with enthusiasm to the call for a convergence on Canberra on November 16 — the day parliament opens. This will be the first opportunity to come together in a national protest against the newly
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
Munira Amer's house was once surrounded by green fields, gardens and an agricultural nursery full of olive and decorative trees, grapevines and flowers, which her husband Hani took care of. Now the land around Munira and
Kim Bullimore, Israel
Angie Zelter, a well-known non-violent peace and human rights activist from Britain, is currently being held by the Israeli authorities in a cell at Ben Gurion airport, Israel.
Zelter, a founding member of the Trident
On October 7, British ITV showed a documentary by
renowned journalist John Pilger that used recently
released documents to show how the British government had
conspired with the United States to expel the Chagos Islanders
and turn their home
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