Give East Timor its due,In the Timor Sea blue.Well, we all knowWhat's a fair go — We must cut it in two.
What's unfair makes us boil,So for fairness we'll toil. Oz is greedy Yes, indeedyHands off East Timor's oil!
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Kali Mercier
"The government has cut off everything that enables us to survive, but we won't move because we were born here."
Two years after Botswana's government evicted hundreds of Gana and Gwi "Bushmen" from their ancestral land, the
War on Terror
"I was standing there depicting the iconic picture of the tortured Iraqi prisoner." — Comment by Joseph Previtera, a 21-year-old Boston student, after he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, making a false bomb threat,
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Islamic Association opposes 'anti-terror' laws
SYDNEY — Two-hundred people, mostly from the Muslim community, attended a meeting on June 12 condemning the "anti-terror" laws and
In the June European Parliament elections, the progressive unity coalition Respect, running former Labour MP George Galloway as its lead candidate, obtained an average of 1.7% of the vote across England and Wales. This modest result, however,
Alex Miller
Ninety-nine days after it started, the all-out strike by childcare workers (nursery nurses) came to an end on June 2, when childcare workers employed by Glasgow City Council voted by 542 votes to 98 to accept the council's offer of
Ben Courtice & Sue Bolton, Melbourne
In the wake of the high-profile court case of former Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union state secretary Craig Johnston, current AMWU state secretary Dave Oliver sent a highly factional and inflammatory
Water: The Drop Of Life — Examines the impact of social, economic, cultural, strategic and agricultural factors on drinking water. SBS, Friday, June 25, 1pm.
Organ Farm: Man Made Pigs — Looks at the highly secret, multibillion dollar industry
Chris Slee
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have accused the Sri Lankan army of using paramilitary groups to create violence in eastern Sri Lanka, as part of a strategy to expand the army's area of control.
LTTE officials claim that
MELBOURNE — More than 10,000 people rallied on June 5 in a World Environment Day protest in defence of Tasmania's old-growth forests. In Brisbane, supporters of the Tasmanian forest campaign packed the Ithaca Hall at City Hall on June 4 for a
Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on IraqEdited by David MillerPluto Press, 2004320 pages,
A$38.95 pb, or US$13.97 from <http://www.amazon.com>.
REVIEW BY PAUL DE ROOIJ
The 2003 US war on Iraq was
SYDNEY — NSW Premier Bob Carr introduced — and had passed within 48 hours — new laws which make it nearly impossible for "terrorist suspects" to receive bail. The laws took effect on June 3.
This move followed the granting of bail to Bilal
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