By Tony Iltis
HOBART — More than 600 students and activists gathered at the Students and Sustainability Conference (S&S), held at the University of Tasmania and the Lea Scout Camp, July 6-10. The conference is an annual forum of student
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By Lisa Macdonald
Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party were given a boost by their success in the June 13 Queensland election. Since then, Hanson's racist statements have become bolder and more outrageous — such as her announcement on July 14
By Helen Jarvis
PHNOM PENH — All the old players are back in town as the Cambodian elections draw close. Contrary to the expectations, and perhaps hopes, of many who deny the present government legitimacy, the elections appear likely to go ahead
By Rebecca Meckelburg and Jim Green
Non-violent actions to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine have led to hundreds of arrests at the blockade in recent weeks. Protesters have endured police violence and appalling conditions in the police lock-up, and
Terrorist identifies backers of Cuba bombings
In a front-page article on July 12, the New York Times described an admission by Cuban-born right-winger Luis Posada Carriles that he received funding from the late Cuban-American leader Jorge Mas
By Jennifer Thompson
On July 8, the federal Senate passed John Howard's Wik bill. The bill's amendments to the 1993 Native Title Act continue a long history of Aboriginal dispossession. From 1788, the British legal system and colonists treated the
Voices from NOWSA
Around 350 women travelled from around Australia to attend the Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) annual conference at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean, June 29-July 1. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's ANGELA LUVERA asked some
By Dave Riley
While the world's media have focused on the confrontation at Drumcree, Unionist bigots have unleashed a wave of firebombings across Northern Ireland. July is the main loyalist marching season. Thousands of Orangemen commemorate the
Rally for East Timor
MELBOURNE — More than 200 East Timorese and their supporters rallied and marched on July 17 behind a banner demanding a referendum in East Timor and release of Xanana Gusmao, jailed president of the National Council of the
Jailed for Jabiluka
We are watching the sky through rolls of barbed wire in the Berrimah Prison outside Darwin. Dressed in prison issue, the 7 of us are held on remand waiting to see a magistrate. Of the 106 arrested at Jabiluka on July 3, we 7
July 26 is Cuba's national day, marking the beginning in 1956 of the struggle that led in 1959 to the overthrow of the US-backed Batista dictatorship and the opening of the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Despite four decades of US
The marching season
The marching season in the Northern Ireland spans April to December. The majority of the marches are organised by the Loyal Orders: the Orange Order, the Apprentice Boys and the Royal Black Preceptory.
The Loyal Orders are
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