BY SEAN WALSH
George Pell, the newly appointed Catholic archbishop of Sydney, is once again under attack from angry community groups, in particular those at the sharp end of Pell's bigoted, anti-gay and anti-lesbian stick.
Sydney gay and lesbian
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BY ALISON DELLIT
The Australian Financial Review's May 23 headlines said it all, "There's a hole where the surplus used to be", "Even the 1.5 billion isn't as good as it looks" and, on May 24, "The incredible shrinking surplus".
Behind the
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — If opponents of President Abdurrahman Wahid have their way, when it meets on May 30 the Indonesian parliament will call a special session of the People's Consultative Assembly, the only body which has the power to impeach
Curtin Immigration Detention Centre
Location: RAAF base outside Derby, in the far north of Western Australia.
Capacity: 1000 people (1200 people being held).
Description: Tents and pre-fabricated huts used as accomodation, surrounded by
Lemonade & Buns/Tog E Go Bog EKilaGreen Linnet records
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Kila play Irish music the likes of which you've never heard. Forget your notions about tiddly diddly dee and them boring auld laments and dirges. This lot of young
BY VIV MILEY
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants", George 'Dubya' Bush, January 14, 2001.
Bush and his administration definitely know
BY EVA CHENG
Eight protesters who took part in the April 20-22 protests in Quebec City against the US-led plan for a Free Trade Area of the Americas have been sentenced to up to nine months imprisonment.
Stephane Paquet, based in Quebec City, was
Links No. 18128pp, $8.00Available at Resistance Bookshops
REVIEW BY ALLEN MYERS
The latest issue of Links magazine sets out to provide an indication of the breadth and depth of Marxist political activity and theory in Asia. It contains a
REVIEWED BY PHIL SHANNON
The Tombstone Imperative: The Truth About Air SafetyBy Andrew WeirSimon & Schuster, 2000372 pp, $14.95 (pb)
"Nothing is more important to us than safety", "Safety is our number one priority": all the variations on this
BY PATRICK BOND
ACCRA — There are signs of genuine hope in Ghana. In May, I was privileged to witness a careful regrouping of the country's former revolutionary student/community movement, which is strengthening its political base by addressing
Just weeks after another uprising at the Port Hedland refugee detention centre, federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock introduced the immigration detainees bill into federal parliament, which proposes to allow guards to conduct strip searches of
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE — "M1 shares its name with a recent generation US Army tank, the M1 Abrams. It's ironic that today's crisis-addicts campaign against US imperialism — economic and cultural — when they enthusiastically take-up all the
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