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Heads low, grass-cropping idleunder the olive treesundressed of reins, saddle, bridleinoffensive as sheep, yet these were the flesh-tearing hoovesunder which we fell; the fused halvesof the mounted-monster man-horse, ancientoppressor raised tall

PALESTINE: A meeting with Arafat

BY URI AVNERY RAMALLAH — "They want us to enact a constitution? No problem! I shall ask Israel to send me a copy of theirs and copy it word for word!" Yasser Arafat sent me an amused look. Israel, of course, has no constitution. That was on the

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Students for Refugees launched HOBART — On May 8, students at the Hobart campus of the University of Tasmania launched a Students for Refugees group. Shua Garfield told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly: "The formation of this group shows that you don't need

John Q exposes holes in the 'safety net'

John QDirected by Nick CassavetesWith Denzel Washington, Anne Heche, Robert Duvall and James WoodsAt major cinemas REVIEW BY MARTHA GRUELLE John Q is a drama about a man's love for his child and his desperate attempt to save the boy. But the

Ruddock sends refugees back to starvation

BY SARAH STEPHEN In response to the Easter protests outside the Woomera and Villawood detention centres, immigration minister Philip Ruddock declared that there were no refugees in Australia's detention centres, only "rejectees". They are not

'Anti-terror' laws threaten right to protest

BY ALISON DELLIT In the mid 1960s, protesters in Australia broke the law just by holding street protests against the Vietnam War. Through persistently defying anti-protest laws, they won the legal right to hold street marches. This is an

Think of Silver

Expensive spoons, some wereborn with; also the worditself sliding as smoothly off the tongue.Then all the substitutes cheap but preciousreflected in eyeshine at Xmas toys, tinselsparklers, stars. But hard glitter of mint-new silver dollarswere

Royal commission secretly taping workers

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry, headed by Terence Cole, was accused on May 16 of using secretly taped evidence to discredit construction workers and their unions. John Cummins, Victorian

Museworthy: Spine-Scar

Museworthy: Spine-Scar Light comes inthrough darkness All yesterday's shedshave fallen Living things squatin destruction's beauty Opening their backsto pain BY MTC CRONIN MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the most

FIJI: Qarase defies constitution

BY MICHELLE BREAR SUVA — Since the flawed August 2001 general election, which legitimised and formalised the 2000 military overthrow of the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has refused to honour

Jarring comment on a fraught world

The Great Aussie ScreamPaul BuckberryOrder at <http://www.buckberry.com> REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE The Great Aussie Scream is like nothing that I have ever heard before and definitely gets full marks for creativity. The music defies

Unions and the war in Palestine

Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, mining and energy division, Tony Maher, Ramallah, SUE BOLTON"> Unions and the war in Palestine Unions and the war in Palestine   BY SUE BOLTON Israel’s brutal