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Poem: Behind the Wire

Behind the wiredreams expirestrangled andcongealed in themire of choked livesand hopes and dreams. Behind the wiredead dreams walkseeking releasefrom all carein the drowning seaof racism's bile. Behind the wirethe innocents shuffle,sad refuge

Home births under threat

BY KAMALA EMANUEL HOBART — Insurance industry costs are threatening the delivery of home-birthing services across Tasmania. The Australian Nursing Federation ordinarily pays insurance fees for nurses as part of their membership fees. In early

Arthur Miller and the morality of success

All My SonsWritten by Arthur MillerDirected by Adam CookWith Max Cullen, Marta Dusseldorp, Lynette Curran, Paul Gleeson, Glenn HazeldineAt the Playhouse, Sydney Opera HouseUntil May 11Bookings (02) 9929 0644 REVIEW BY IGGY KIM US playwright

On the box

Since The Company Came — This documentary tells the story of a community's struggle against social, cultural and ecological disruption caused by a company in the Solomon Islands. SBS, Friday, May 3, 1.30pm. Reputations: Secret World Of Richard

'Everyone should be supporting the Palestinians'

BY ALISON DELLIT "If I stole your wallet, and then came up to you and said that it was too late, now that it was stolen, to give it back, and offered you just $15 of the $100 that was in it — would you accept?", Wajma Tapadshah, a member of the

Museworthy: Leaving the Window

Museworthy: Leaving the Window "He would be guilty of murderif at the time the deceased left the windowhe had an intent to kill heror cause her grievous bodily harmor had acted with reckless indifference to human life." Only a quarter of the

Labor backs Forestry Tasmania

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — The May 1 blockade of the Forestry Tasmania building coincides with the beginning of the Resource, Planning and Development Commission (RPDC) hearing to consider an appeal against the development proposal for the

Write on: Letters to the editor

'Socialist Israel' I Dave Murray's letter (Write On, GLW #489), replying to Shane Bentley, misses the point of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He calls for a "socialist confederation of the Middle East". I would like to see more than just a

CFMEU: 'They will never break our fighting spirit'

BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI PERTH — The royal commission into the construction industry, which has been conducting hearings around Australia since October, has just concluded its first hearings in Perth. The commission, headed by former NSW Supreme Court

IRAQ: US sabotages progress on inspections

BY NORM DIXON The United States remains determined to launch a massive military attack to topple Iraq's President Saddam Hussein, even in the face of the explosion of popular anger in Middle Eastern countries triggered by Israel's state terrorism

Hundreds protest for Palestine

BY JESS MELVIN MELBOURNE — Three-hundred and fifty people, most of them young, took to the streets on April 27, demanding Israel get out of Palestine. "Palestine will be free — because there will never be a day in which we stop raising our

PALESTINE: Israeli assault leaves massive destruction

BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH — Despite widespread reports in the mainstream media that Israeli troops have withdrawn from Palestinian cities (excluding the area around Yasser Arafat's compound and Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity), the Israeli