BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — Community activists from Richmond, Penrith and across the Blue Mountains are organising to stop a new women's prison from being built in Windsor, on the city's western outskirts. They say the state government should
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BY DICK NICHOLS
PORTO ALEGRE — What exactly was the World Social Forum (WSF) that ended here on January 30 after 16 plenaries, 400 workshops, 20 testimonials, and endless concerts, artistic exhibitions and "happenings" dedicated to the theme that
With the verdict handed down on January 31 by the judges presiding over the trial of the two Libyans accused of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the conditions imposed by the United Nations Security Council for the
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — The Department of Corrective Services has released statistics for the September quarter on imprisonment rates in Australia. These figures show that the average daily number of people in prison has steadily increased from
BY ISAM AL-KHAFAJI
When Turkey sent 10,000 soldiers into northern Iraq in late December, the event passed almost unnoticed by the international media. Turkish incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan have become routine.
As on previous occasions, Turkish
BY JIM GREEN
Government delegates from 99 countries met in Shanghai, China, from January 17-20 to finalise and unanimously approve a report on climate change science, which presents new and deeper evidence of the human impact on the world's weather
Fools of the world, unite!
Each year, we here at Life of Riley Enterprises like to let our hair
down and sponsor a Festival of Fools.
Fools' fests go back for yonks. It was traditionally the one day of
the year
BY ALISON DELLIT
January 1 marked the formal end of the 10-year process of "reconciliation" between black and white Australians set up in 1991 by the Hawke Labor government. This process, Labor argued, would address the past injustices inflicted on
Adelaide: Feb 17, noon-2pm. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, Nth Adelaide. Ph 8231 6982.
Brisbane: International Women's Day Collective meeting. Mon Feb 12, 6.30pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. All women welcome. Ph 3831
PORTO ALEGRE — The World Social Forum was awash with debates. Lack of space prevents anything like a full account of these (some of which will be covered in future issues of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly), but among the most important were:
The state of the
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Capitalist racketeers
On January 18 in the Brisbane Federal Court, a fire protection company
was fined five million dollars with $200,000 costs for price fixing with
7 other firms including James Hardie
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — As the February 10 state election looms, the major parties are whipping up hysteria over Western Australia's non-existent "crime wave". The Liberals, the Labor Party and the Australian Democrats are competing to
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