BY ROHAN PEARCE
The commemorations for the innocent people killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York received saturation television coverage across the globe. However, Israel's atrocities committed against the Palestinian
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BY EMMA MURPHY
On September 6, a report was released from a coronial inquest held in May and June into three petrol-sniffing related deaths between 1999-2001 in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands. The coroner found that, in all three cases, "the
BY RACHEL COHEN
Drug research and development (R&D) for diseases that disproportionately affect poor people in developing countries is at a virtual standstill.
According to a study by Patrice Trouiller and colleagues, soon to be published in the
and ain't i a woman?: Women's liberation in Cuba
In capitalist societies, particularly in the Third World, women have fought, and continue to fight, to overturn the inequalities they face. These include unequal access to education, less
BY AMIE HAMILTON
PERTH — Despite a 200-strong student general meeting at which students voted overwhelmingly to hold a referendum in order to declare the University of Western Australia a refugee safe haven, it is unclear whether the referendum
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — Three hundred people attended a September 14 forum organised
by Australians for a Just Peace around the slogan “our grief is not a cry
for war”.
The forum was chaired by ABC radio presenter Sandy McCutcheon,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
For two years, Kevin John Enniss was a paid informant of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). He was also at the heart of the people-smuggling business in Indonesia.
Enniss went far beyond the normal role of an informant. At the
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — The Illawarra Socialist Alliance met on September 8 and unanimously endorsed Chris "Will" Williams as its candidate in the October 19 federal by-election for the NSW seat of Cunningham.
Williams is a 24-year-old
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) held stop-work meetings during the week of September 9 to 13, at which they voted to hold a two-hour strike on
BY PHIL CHILTON
PERTH — On September 9, about 60 people staged a vigil outside the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs in Perth. The vigil was for Steven Khan.
Khan is one of the asylum seekers locked in
Labor sells out on war
The “me-too” approach that Prime Minister John Howard and his cabinet
have taken to the US war drive against Iraq has given the ALP some leeway
to appear to be an opposition on this issue. It isn't.
Both the
BY IGGY KIM
On September 11, the Indonesian army in Aceh announced that it had
taken into custody two foreigners — Lesley McCulloch, an Australian academic
of British citizenship, and Joy-Lee Sadler, a US nurse — and their Acehnese
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