BY MARGARET ALLUM
Human rights advocates are outraged by new legislation redefining the concept "terrorism", allowing for the banning of organisations considered terrorist and reversing the burden of proof, which was passed by the British
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BY JANINE CURR
SYDNEY — On February 19, the International Women's Day Collective
debated, for the third time in as many weeks, the question of whether men
should be encouraged to participate in the IWD rally and march on March
10.
The
BY SEAN HEALYÂ
The word is out. The Australian left is on a roll. Fresh from the
inspiration of S11, when tens of thousands confronted the world's power
brokers at Melbourne's Crown Casino, and with plans well underway for mass
BY BRONWYN POWELL
WOLLONGONG — Three hundred people sat in on Wollongong City Council's February 19 meeting and watched in anger as council approved the first stage of a 428-lot residential development at Sandon Point in Thirroul.
The council
By Raul Cienfuegos
The US$7.5 billion “Plan Colombia”, designed by the US State Department
as an anti-drug plan, is beginning to show its true purpose. Of the US$7.5
billion, US$1.3 billion has come from the US, mostly as military
ChocolatWith Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp and Lena OlinDirected by Lasse HolstromPalace Cinemas, Sydney, other states to follow
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
I saw Chocolat on Valentine's Day. So too, it seemed, did a good
On January 29, Chilean investigative judge Juan Guzman Tapia announced the indictment of former dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte on 57 counts of homicide and 18 of kidnapping, as co-conspirator in the October 1973 Caravan of Death, in which 74
BY SEAN HEALY
International money traders have subjected the Turkish lira to sustained attack, forcing it to plunge 28% against the US dollar on February 22, sparking fears of a deep economic crisis in the country.
The lira's collapse was the
By Neville Spencer
On July 2, Vicente Fox Quesada of the conservative National Action
Party (PAN) was elected president of Mexico putting an end to 71 years
of continuous rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Though
the rule
BY SUE BOLAND
Just before Christmas, most newspaper columnists were writing off Labor's chances in the next federal election. It had no alternative policies, it was crippled by electoral rorting allegations and it had not a hope. Now, after
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Hidden WordsworthBy Kenneth R. Johnston
Pimlico, 2000690 pp, $35.15 (pb)
"I am of that odious class of men called democrats". Could the person who uttered this statement and who supported the Great French Revolution
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
Public servants are prime targets for the federal government. In the last decade 110,000 public sector jobs have been lost through cuts to funding, restructuring and the outsourcing and privatisation of government services
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