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UNITED STATES: Camejo calls for preferential voting system

BY BARRY SHEPPARD SAN FRANCISCO — "If you do this recall, you may create a problem that you won't get over for a long, long time. This spreads instability and uncertainty among [California's] people and people around the country." The speaker

Starving in the First World

BY JESS MELVIN Eating disorders now rank as Australia's third worst health problem for women under 18 years old. A recent survey conducted from June 2002 to June 2003 by the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, which involved all Australian

Yorta Yorta! Here to stay!

Yanagai!, Yorta Yorta, Melbourne Workers Theatre, Playbox, Andrea James, David Adamson, Bryan Andy, Lou Bennet, Lisa Maza, Tony Briggs, Judge Olney, Munarra "> Yorta Yorta! Here to stay! Yanagai! Yanagai!Melbourne Workers Theatre and

Perth to protest Bush visit

BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI PERTH — At its meeting on September 18 the Perth No War Alliance decided to change its planned October 25 protest, in order to hold a protest coinciding with the visit to Australia of US President George Bush. The new

FIJI: Boycott of Pafco products

SUVA — The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) and Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy (ECREA) in Fiji on September 16 supported calls for a consumer boycott of products made by the Fiji government-owned Pacific Fishing

Historic teachers' strike demands action

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — Across Australia, 100,000 teachers poured out of their schools throughout Australia on September 17 in the biggest teacher action that has ever taken place in this country, and the biggest single-profession national strike

Johnny Cash: a 'musical outlaw'

BY JOHN NICHOLS Later this year, the American Recordings label will release a collection of Johnny Cash songs which will include a collaboration with one of the legendary country singer's greatest fans, the late Joe Strummer. The pair's version of

Liberal senator accused of bigotry

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Queensland Liberal senator Brett Mason has been accused of being a "dummy-spitting bigot", after he criticised the acknowledgment of traditional land owners at citizenship ceremonies. Mason used a citizenship day speech

IRAQ: Pentagon covers-up occupation's toll

BY ROHAN PEARCE An investigation by the Washington Post's Vernon Loeb has revealed that the number of US troops in Iraq who are being officially classified "wounded in action" is around 10 per day. The number of soldiers injured by the Iraqi

IRELAND: The struggle for abortion rights

BY SUSAN AUSTIN DUBLIN — Nine women's rights, women's health and civil liberties organisations came together for a press conference in Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel on September 5 to mark the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Eighth Amendment to

PALESTINE: Al Aqsa Intifada: 'Why should our youth accept oppression?'

BY RIHAB CHARIDA The emergence of the Al Aqsa Intifada (uprising) in September 2000 was inevitable. For years before, Palestinian population centres remained enclosed by a strict Israeli military cordon. The Palestinian people were being denied the

WEST PAPUA: Papuans 'marginalised in our own country'

There was little doubt about what feelings dwell in the heart of Negro Alpius Kogoyo, head of the Lani tribe of Mimika and commander of the Peoples Opposed to the Division of Papua.