BY SUE BOLAND
The 21 adult Australian residents detained by the Indonesian police
June 8-9 have sent an open letter to foreign minister Alexander Downer,
demanding that the Australian government issue a statement condemning the
Indonesian
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BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — The Liberals have only just managed to hold on to the lower house seat of Nedlands in a by-election on June 9. Greens candidate Steve Walker came within 3.5% of stealing the blue-ribbon Liberal seat.
The seat was
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On June 14, a converted fishing boat, the Sea of Change, docked in Dublin, Ireland, its first stop in a pilot project to offer safe access to pregnancy terminations, family planning and contraception to women in countries which
BY QAMAR NASEEB KHAN
PERTH AIRPORT DETENTION CENTRE — I was born in Kashmir, which has been disputed territory between India and Pakistan for 54 years. Since 1989, 70,000 people have been killed, 12,000 women have been raped and 200,000 are held
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — The usefulness of revolutionary solutions to "globalisation" featured prominently in the discussion at the June 13 public forum organised by the M1 Alliance. This was despite the fact that only one of the featured
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
Lost and DeliriousDirected by Lea PoolWith Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo and Jessica PareScreening at the Sydney Film Festival, State Theatre and Dendy Opera Quays, until June 22
Mary "Mouse" Bradford (played by Mischa
Corporate collapses: Make the rich pay
BY ALISON DELLIT
It has not been a good two months for the “old boys” of the elite
Cranbrook School in the affluent Sydney suburb of Point Piper. Following
the collapse of insurance giant HIH, 1976
BY BRONWYN REES-ALLEN & LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — On June 8 a large contingent from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) joined 250 protesters outside the Nike superstore in Swanston Street. The presence of the militant union
BY PIP HINMAN
For one and a half days, from the morning of June 7, the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference, held a holiday resort outside Jakarta, had been proceeding relatively smoothly. Eighty Indonesian democracy activists and more than
German Greens
Since your paper didn't get much feedback on your provocative April 11
front page headline “German
Greens betray anti-nuclear movement”, and the accompanying article,
I better let you know what I thought of it. As an
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Curtin Immigration Detention Centre was on show to the media for the first time on June 10, a move the immigration department described as being part of an effort to change public perceptions, created by three riots in close
BY SUE BOLAND
Once the news broke in Australia about the police and militia attack on the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity conference in Indonesia on June 8 and the detention of conference participants, friends and relatives of the detainees in
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