BY PIP HINMAN
Seven activists from the Acehnese Democratic Women's Organisation
(ORPAD), including a high school student, were arrested while staging a
peaceful protest on July 16 in the territory's capital Banda Aceh. They
were demanding
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
Immigration department guidelines for journalists visiting immigartion detention centres state that they "may not interview any person who is detained under Australia's immigration law" and "will not photograph/film people in
Protests held in
solidarity with the Alamdar and Montazar Baktiyari, the Afghan boys who
applied to Britain for asylum from Australia, were attended by 150 people
in Sydney on July 21, 70 people in Melbourne on July 19 and another 50
people
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The Greens’ success in the July 20 Tasmanian elections —
in which they won four seats — has been warmly received in the lunchrooms
of many workplaces. By contrast the establishment is not comfortable with
the
BY CHRIS SLEE
Public sector management is threatening the job security and flextime rights of workers in the Australian Taxation Office. Negotiations are underway for a new industrial agreement for the ATO. The Community and Public Sector Union
Museworthy: Suffering, Related to 'Ownership'
Privilege —someone else's suffering.
What I should haverefused
before I neededto give it away.
Sing Your Heart
Sing your heart
Don't wait for newsfrom the outside world
Ferris wheels
ZACHARY STEEL is a clinical psychiatrist who has been working with asylum seekers for 10 years and is documenting the impact of government policies on their mental health. Steel has spoken at numerous public forums, and on radio and television in
The following advice for Australians travelling to Afghanistan was issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on July 4.
Safety and Security — Australians should defer all travel to Afghanistan until further notice. Australians in
and ain't i a woman: Why there are more men than women in India
For the last two centuries, unlike most of the world, India's population has contained more men than women. Millions of women and girls have been killed — through situ (the
100-0 rule?
"We don't have a 60-40 rule operating at any of the state conferences of the Liberal Party. We don't have 10, 20, 30, 40 or any percentage of votes allocated to business interests. But we do, very importantly, we have a broad sympathy
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too)Directed by Alfonso CuaronStarring Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Maribel VerduScreened at the 49th Sydney Film Festival, June 7-21
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too) was the film
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Since the war on Afghanistan began, the US military has had a number of standard replies to accusations that it has massacred civilians: there were al Qaeda or Taliban leaders in the area; they fired first; it was a military
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