BY JEFF HALPER
BEER SHEVA — For the past six years, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been working on the issue of house demolitions. Every time we think: "OK, we've exhausted the subject, let's go on to other, perhaps
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Museworthy: Life, Related to 'Nest'
I had thought this nestwas mine,now they tell meit is leavesand bits of rubbishcollectedwith enough care onlyto protect a lifetime.
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the
BY KATIE NEVILLE
& ADAM BOTTOMLEY
MELBOURNE — Sydney Afghan temporary protection visa holder Riz Wakil
spoke to an audience of 120 people at an August 14 campus meeting organised
by the La Trobe University Refugee Action Collective.
Bastardry
Every so often there occurs an act of political bastardy so transparent that it fair takes your breath away. Such an act is the decision to exclude Greens Senator Bob Brown from the Australian delegation of 50 to the Johannesburg
On November 14-15, Sydney will host a meeting of World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade ministers from some 25 countries to discuss the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations.
The meeting will evaluate the progress that has been made since
JOHANNESBURG — On August 17, about 100 members of the Soldiers Forum
(SF), an affiliate of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), were arrested
and thrown into jail, where they still remain, for no other reason than
the fact that they wanted to
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Murdoch family's Australian newspaper and the Fairfax's Melbourne Age have spent a number of weeks helping the government in its campaign to destroy the credibility of the Baktiyaris, a Hazara family who are seeking asylum in
No Toxic Dump
By Paul Strangio
Pluto Press Australia, 2001
$24.95 (pb)
REVIEWED BY BEN COURTICE
Paul Strangio introduces No Toxic Dump by comparing the two
buzzwords “globalisation” and “community”. While “the revival of community
BY LUISA ARA & MARCUS FELSMAN
SYDNEY — In a clear indication that students are beginning to organise against further privatisation of higher education, 500 students marched through Sydney's streets in protest against the higher education review
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The August 8 High Court decision that the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) had denied two applicants "natural justice" when its members lied about having studied all the material the applicants had submitted with their initial
BY ALISON DELLIT
SYDNEY — In another example of rampant racism in Sydney's west, female students at Noor Al Houda Islamic College have had a booking cancelled by the Auburn Swim Centre, after a racist campaign by local talk-back radio hosts to
BY JOSEPHINE HUNT
CANBERRA — On the evening of August 21, the ACT Legislative Assembly voted nine to eight to take abortion out of the Crimes Act and repeal other anti-choice legislation, giving the ACT the most progressive abortion (non-) law
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