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1. Is Howard on the ropes?

   the race card again, like if another Tampa occurs, because of the Labor Party's lack of backbone ... Kerryn Williams Since winning leadership of the federal ALP, Mark Latham's profile has ... Prime Minister John Howard. "In the space of two short months, the ALP has gone from the Australian ...

2. Torres Strait Islanders in the spotlight

   Smith With Susie Porter and Charles Passi SBS-TV, Thursdays 8.30pm REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY There's ... a very successful tradition of serials on Australian TV and RAN — Remote Area Nurse — fits comfortably ... within that thread. The idea of an outsider mixing with an established community has been a plot ...

3. Write on: Letters to the editor

   has referred to a "pattern" and "broad system" of prisoner maltreatment. There ... year investigated offences in Iraq, describes "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton ... abuses". His damning report notes that, in late August 2003, a team of military intelligence officers went ...

4. We won't swallow that!

   By Jo Mountwinter Dave Riley's article on food irradiation (GLW, March 17) issue was ... basically correct, though it overstated the effectiveness of food irradiation. In fact, the process kills ... only some of the bugs, and slows down the ripening of only a very few fruits. As to fruit flies, ...

5. How we got into this mess

   Lines Allen and Unwin. 337 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Dave Riley When you fly the east coast of Australia ... Taming of the Great South Land — A history of the conquest of Nature in Australia By William J. ... of the Great South Land for this and every other financial year. Good old Aussie dollars are born in ...

6. Elections to follow Irish peace deal

   up to 60. Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble is likely to become the new first minister of ... By Dave Riley On May 22, the Belfast agreement, which sets up a new power-sharing assembly in the ... Six Counties, won overwhelming endorsement from the people of Ireland. In the north, 71.1% backed the ...

7. The Third World comes to town

   Dave Riley If you are among the 4 billion or so of this planet's occupants who hail from the ... pyjamas. Too bloody right we will. We honour muscle regardless of colour when it puts on a show like that. ... of being, you know, whatever — don't ever think that it can be like that every other day. ...

8. 'Artists have a responsibility to stand with Ferguson'

   Anti-racism Democracy Dozens of artists, musicians and writers from around the world have signed ... the open letter below, such as hip-hop artist Boots Riley and music journalist and Red Wedge Magazine ... editor Alexander Billet. It is reprinted from Red Wedge Magazine, where the full list of names can be ...

9. Informing the ecological debate

   Press, 273 pp. Reviewed by Dave Riley There seems to be a frustrating paucity of informed debate within ... cooperatively by the totality of living systems. Almost like a new animism, Lovelock speculates that "Gaia ... encourages in her anthology, culled from the works of biologists, geneticists, zoologists and sundry other ...

10. The new Mrs Parker

    Riley It's true that the US of A isn't short of columnists. Name your preference, and there is ... sure to be some self-righteous wag claiming a few column centimetres in one of any number of rags ... circulated by the publishing industry. Even the doyen of the Republican right, Pat Buchanan, trades on his ...

11. Revolution in the hen house?

    $34.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Dare I say it: I'm a speciesist and proud of it. I like to look upon ... social impotence, animals nowadays must wait on the outcome of human social struggles before they secure ... their share of the neighbourhood. While we may "care" about the creatures of the bush, we are ...

12. Indigenous Peoples Party formed

    Indigenous Peoples Party formed By Dave Riley BRISBANE — Queensland has traditionally been the ... centre of Murri resistance in Australia, said Murri activist Sam Watson, addressing a 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly ... history of black struggles since the 1967 Commonwealth referendum on Aboriginal franchise, which provided ...

13. Loyalists agree to talks with Sinn Féin

    nationalists' mass mobilisations against the threat of another marching season like last year, have guaranteed ... By Dave Riley It is now certain that Sinn Féin will be included in the peace talks process when it ... a early break through, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness debated Ken Maginnis of the Ulster Unionist ...

14. An astute observer from the inside

    Palimpsest: A Memoir By Gore Vidal Andre Deutsch: 435 pp. Reviewed by Dave Riley On the final page ... of this book, Gore Vidal informs us that the actor Paul Newman has just rung and proposes dinner with ... will." This familiarity with notables is a Vidal standard. Related through his father's side of the ...

15. 'Leave the Iraqis alone!'

    Dave Riley, Brisbane Four-hundred anti-war activists — mostly young people — gathered on March 18 ... to protest the continuing occupation of Iraq. "Bring the troops home" was the main theme ... hammered home from a speaking platform that included Juanita Wheeler, national convener of the Greens; ...

16. The last beat dies

    By Dave Riley For a guy who lived by the slogan —"nothing is true, everything is ... permitted" — William S. Burroughs managed a long innings. The icon of hipster cynicism died on August 3 at ... the age of 83. With his death passed the last of the quintessential beats — the core trinity of Jack ...

17. Tariq Ali: 'The war is not going well for Bush'

    currently an editor of the New Left Review. Ali spoke with Socialist Alliance's DAVE RILEY in Brisbane ... regardless of whether they are elected or are military dictatorships, like those that have ruled in Latin ... America and large parts of Asia. Washington would like to return to that situation, except that now the ...

18. Too much is too much: Pulp Fiction

    John Howard makes it to main man, you and me is history. That'll be it for the likes of you and ... By Dave Riley "Tell me this: would you give me a foot massage?" "A what...!" ... thinkin'. You're thinking about making your mark in the holy of holies." "You wanna know what ...

19. How Aus bank financed the heroin trade

    Enforcement Agency. The Chiang Mai office was set up on the helpful suggestion of Murray Stewart Riley, an ... approval of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and in breach of Banking (Foreign Exchange) Regulations. Riley ... History John Rainford War on drugs drugs In early February 1978, on the strength of a claimed ...

20. South East Qld: The treacle effect

    Places like Noosa can still ring up sales of $2.5 million for single beachfront real estate blocks. SEQ ... "answers" allowed. [Dave Riley is a member of the Socialist Alliance.] From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, April 7, ... Dave Riley, Brisbane What was once simply known as Brisbane has morphed over the past 20 years ...

21. Idolising the competition

    Australian Idol Channel 10 Just finished BY DAVE RILEY With a net annual profit of $76.93 million ... until it's milked what it can from the recently completed series of Australian Idol. Idol looks set ... to be the biggest ratings hit of 2004. It is the most watched television program around the country ...

22. Now or never: Queensland's electoral monopoly

    which has learnt from all the others. In fact, what it has done in a number of areas like land rights, ... By Dave Riley BRISBANE — Election fever in Queensland is being given the tepid sponge by the ALP. ... Although the Goss government is committed to a state election before the end of the year the Labor machine ...

23. A universal story

    of what it used to be like between Floyd and Doug. At the same time, she comes to love the Doug that ... other young blackfellas to write their own movies. I'd like to see Aborigines take on all kinds of ... Blackfellas Starring John Moore, David Ngoombujarra, Jaylene Riley, Lisa Kinchela and John ...

24. Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer- reluctantly

    Dave Riley Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer ran out of petrol and reluctantly died of kidney failure ... victims of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. In Kerry's case this amounted to $100 million ... budgerigar, Tiddles the cat and a month's supply of kitty litter — you need to spare a thought for the ...

25. Theatre that proves a point

    things, because it seemed like a good idea at the time. The aim of the project was to establish a troupe ... By Dave Riley Earlier this year, I set up New World Order Theatre in Brisbane. There was no ... manifesto to mark its birth, nor raving reviews to greet its first production. It happened, like so many ...

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