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Dutton’s bid to ban mobile phones

After the defeat in the Federal Court of his bid to ban mobile phones in offshore immigration detention centres, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) Peter Dutton is trying another strategy to subvert the court’s August ruling.

Mobile phones are already prohibited in onshore immigration detention centres and on Christmas Island for refugees who tried to come to Australia by boat.

Loose cannons

Cow jumped over the moon lctext = "Space is not an empty void. It is a cash cow waiting to be milked by Australian space companies ... [according to] Dr Bruce Middleton, an aerospace consultant ..." — Sydney Morning Herald, September 6.

Women in the media

Women in the media Volunteers are wanted for "The Global Media Monitoring Project" — a project which aims to record the roles and representation of women in radio, television and newspaper news on one chosen "ordinary" day in our lives,

Pan Africanist Congress probes election failure

The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), long considered South Africa's most important liberation movement after the African National Congress (ANC), surprised many with its massive electoral failure in the April elections. The PAC won 1.3% of the national

Write on

Militarism It would appear the bourgeois merchants of death are preparing an ideological onslaught on the minds of the Australian masses, in the run up to the 50th anniversary of the end of WW2. Shopping last week at Garden

How the Rwandan tragedy was created

By Zanny Begg The death toll in Rwanda has shocked people around the world. Rows upon rows of dead bodies have filled TV screens, newspapers and magazines since the carnage began in April. It has been estimated that 500,000 people have

Action updates

BRISBANE — A mass meeting called by the Communications Workers Union on September 7 endorsed a motion opposing the Queensland and Federal Labor government's plans to privatise Suncorp, Telecom, Australia Post, ANL and Brisbane airports. The meeting

Joyous and enlightening theatre

Seeing Things By Barry Lowe Not So Straight Theatre Company September 14-17, 8.30pm Space Theatre, Festival Centre, Adelaide Reviewed by Penny Farrow Not So Straight Theatre Company, formed in late 1993, is made up

Portland Aborigines appeal

Portland Aborigines appeal The Kerrupjmara people of far western Victoria are considering re-establishing a tent embassy in Portland, eight weeks after an earlier tent embassy was ended. The embassy was set up in Portland's main

Looking out: Human beings

Looking out: Human beings By Brandon Astor Jones "Let us call it by the name which, for lack of any other nobility, will at least give the nobility of truth, and let us recognise it for what it essentially is: a revenge." —

Asian Theatre Festival

Asian Theatre Festival SYDNEY — The second Sydney Asian Theatre Festival continues at the Belvoir Street Theatre until October 1. Five unusual and intriguing presentations are offered. The Return, by Ta Duy Binh, is a poetic

Although you have disappeared, you live in our heart

Although you have disappeared, you live in our heart By Eliseo Balcazar Dear mother and father Dear sisters and brother Dear companion and friends Where are you? Where ... are you? December, January June August