BY ROHAN PEARCE
When Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, in a July 17 speech to mark the 34 years of rule by his Baath party, attacked "evil tyrants and oppressors" — referring to US-backed Iraqi opposition forces, primarily former Iraqi military
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The epiphanies are rushing togetherThe epiphanies of povertyOf light and emptiness and the mass of lifeThat remembers itselfIn the square of your childhood village
The sunflower's head is too heavyFor its
BY ALISON DELLIT
After badly scalding his face, a friend of mine went to the emergency department of Sydney's Westmead Hospital at 2am, where he waited for six hours before his burns were even looked at.
Stories like this are common. Australia's
The party's over
"In order for us to have the security we all want, America must get rid of the hangover that we now have as a result of the binge, the economic binge we just went through. We were in a land of — there was endless profit, there
BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY — The first major conflict between the mass movement and Mexico's President Vicente Fox's administration has ended in a qualified victory for those opposed to the construction of a new international airport for the
BY BRIAN BELKNAP
Dockworkers' union leaders on the US west coast continue to negotiate with management for a new contract. The existing contract, which expired on July 1, is being extended on a day-to-day basis.
In 1999, when the International
BY NICOLE HILDER
WOLLONGONG — In an eight-page glossy brochure delivered to northern Illawarra residents in May, Stocklands describes itself as "one of the most respected development and investment groups in Australia". Yet its Sandon Point
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Forget about the Gold Coast, the next series of Big Brother should be televised from the Woomera refugee detention centre according to comedian Rod Quantock. After all, "it's all ready to go, all you need is the
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit
BY EVA CHENG
As US corporate crime scandals spread by the day, even US President George Bush and vice-president Dick Cheney have been implicated in the shady practices that have triggered panic on stockmarkets around the world.
The US Securities
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The forced return of Alamdar and Montazar Baktiyari to the Woomera immigration prison — which dramatically unfolded on news telecasts on July 18 — has horrified millions of people across Australia and the world. It was a
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The Oscar Wilde they never quote
REVIEW BY STUART MUNCKTON
The Importance of Being EarnestDirected Oliver ParkerStarring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth and Dame Judi
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