REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Following Them Home: the Fate of the Returned Asylum SeekersBy David CorlettBlack Inc Books, 2005220 pages, $24.95
"The Australian government has long declared that it owes no duty of care to those asylum seekers it
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Doug Lorimer
In a speech given on November 30 at the US Naval Academy on November 30, US President George Bush admitted that "ordinary Iraqis" made up the majority of those fighting the US-led occupation of Iraq. The speech was the first of
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. — Margaret Mead
Without agitators, there would be no advance towards civilisation. Without dissent ... democracy in its true sense remains
Barry Healy
UN troops in Haiti are actively terrorising civilians, a coalition of human rights activists said in Washington on November 15, as they filed two legal petitions with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The
Nick Fredman
The execution by hanging in Singapore of convicted Australian heroin trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van on December 2 caused revulsion among people around the world — including among Singaporeans fighting for democratic rights and for the
Reject an Iraq run by...
"The enemy in Iraq is a combination of rejectionists, Saddamists and terrorists. The rejectionists are by far the largest group. These are ordinary Iraqis, mostly Sunni Arabs, who ... reject an Iraq in which they are no
Dick Nichols
On November 26, the Brisbane Courier Mail front page screamed: "Barnaby to wreck Howard's IR agenda". Less than a week later the "maverick Queensland senator" was trying to convince the country that government acceptance of his
I is for InfidelBy Kathy GannonPublic Affairs Books, 2005
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Kathy Gannon is an "old Afghan hand" and her book on Afghanistan is crucial reading. Four years after 9/11 and well into the third year of the US-led occupation, Iraq
Doug Lorimer
At a December 17 Baghdad new conference, the main Sunni-led alliance that contested the December 15 elections for a new Iraqi parliament hailed the high voter turn-out by Sunni Muslims. Participation by Sunnis in the election had
Stephanie Long, Montreal
From November 28 to December 9, more than 170 countries are engaging in negotiations under the Kyoto Protocol and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. To date, 157 countries have ratified the Kyoto
The following resolution was passed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions in November.
The ACTU Executive congratulates and supports the Venezuelan government for its utilisation of the country's wealth and resources for reforms to benefit
Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the WorldKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernesto Che GuevaraPreface by Adrienne RichIntroduction by Armando HartOcean Books, 2005168 pages
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
Given 170 or so
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