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Stolenwealth Games: Indigenous rights are human rights

Indigenous people from around Australia will gather in Melbourne during the "Stolenwealth Games" on March 15-26. Organised by the Black GST, the Indigenous gathering will discuss ways to bring international media attention to the following demands

Write On: Letters to the Editor

Cannabis In his attack on Liberal Party anti-drugs policy, Gary Meyerhoff (Write On, GLW #656) contends that "despite claims by some mental health professionals that some pre-existing mental illnesses can be exacerbated or 'brought on' by marijuana

State-sponsored sexual assault?

Dale Mills A complaint by prisoners' pressure group Sisters Inside led to a 20-month inquiry that found that in a four-year period, 41,728 strip searches were performed on women in Queensland's prisons. Only two searches found "significant

On the box

As It Happened: Life Behind The Wall — Looks at the now extinct German Democratic Republic 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. SBS, Saturday, March 18, 7.30pm. Message Stick: Julie Dowling — With the support of her identical twin sister

Australian aid: separating the wheat from the chaff

Tim O'Connor and Kate Wheen Trevor Flugge, the wheat farmer from WA who was recently splashed across the newspapers smiling, shirtless, sweating and aiming a handgun at the camera, may not be the first person you would associate with Australian

IRAQ: Thousands killed by government death squads

Doug Lorimer Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7000 people have been killed by Iraqi interior ministry death squads in recent months, John Pace, the outgoing head of the

Our Common Cause: Don't forget the asylum seekers

Tony Dewberry "You can judge politicians by how they treat refugees; they do to them what they would like to do to everyone else if they could get away with it." — Ken Livingstone, lord mayor of London It seems the Howard government wants to

Bellyful of Rice lies

Rohan Pearce It sounds like a heartwarming story: An African-American girl born in Alabama during the era of Jim Crow, growing up and getting a job that makes her almost inevitably be described as "the most powerful woman in the world", power she

Artists Against Sedition

The Festival of SeditionHuskisson Community Centre, ShoalhavenMarch 18Phone Chris Nobel on (02) 4465 1285 Sandra Lee Like a large section of the Australian public, many artists, poets and musicians are concerned about the potential impact of the

Fisk: Who's stirring civil war?

Pip Hinman, Sydney In a powerful presentation that included a short "war correspondent" tour of Bosnia, Palestine and south Lebanon, Robert Fisk reminded a packed forum at Sydney's Seymour Centre on March 6 that the US-led invasion and occupation

End the Iraq bloodbath: Bring the troops home now!

As the US, British and Australian governments enter their third year of occupation in Iraq, opposition and resistance to the occupation by the Iraqi people continues to steadily grow. Last October, the London Sunday Telegraph revealed that a secret

Your stars

Aries You will spend 45 minutes in a queue at Centrelink today, only to find that they've suspended your student allowance for no apparent reason. They assure you it will be restored — if you fill out seven forms and attend three interviews.