Doug Lorimer
The selection of Iyad Allawi as prime minister of the Iraqi "interim government" is a clear demonstration that Washington has no intention of relinquishing its control over Iraq on June 30.
Allawi was selected as Iraq's new PM on May
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Norm Dixon
Hollywood's global warming apocalypse flick, The Day After Tomorrow, has focused attention on how the melting of polar ice, the Arctic tundra and the world's glaciers can trigger abrupt climate change. There is now overwhelming evidence
Dianne Hiles, Sydney
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) undertook an inquiry during 2002 into children in immigration detention.
On May 13, the report, "A Last Resort?", and its recommendations were tabled, very quietly, in
Cam Walker
World Refugee Day, marked on June 20, is a chance to acknowledge both the plight and the courage of refugees. It could also be a day for reflection on another looming crisis: the beginning of a new wave of refugees fleeing human-induced
Dale Mills
On June 1, former taxi driver and factory worker Jack Roche became the first person in Australia to be imprisoned as a "terrorist", after pleading guilty to involvement in an al Qaeda plot to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra.
Kavita Krishnan, Delhi
Psephologists, astrologers and speculators alike had used their predictions to campaign for a return of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's right-wing National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to power in the April 20-May 10
Rohan Pearce
On June 1, PM John Howard finally admitted that Australian soldiers had known that US soldiers were torturing Iraqi prisoners. Up until then, his government had insisted that Australian officials had found out about illegal US
World leader
"Mental illnesses including anxiety disorders and depression are common and undertreated in many countries, both developed and developing, with the highest rate found in the United States." — June 2 Associated Press report on the
Iraq
Britain and the US seem to be having some communication problems about who will have veto rights over US military attacks on innocent wedding parties, while the US's former pin-up boy, Ahmad Chalabi, claims that his recent fall from grace is
BY DAVID ROVICS
We'll get rid of the dictator, rebuild your countryMake sure all your kids go to schoolWe'll clean up the cities, get the sewage plants runningInstitute parliamentary ruleWe'll bring you autonomy, senators and judgesAnd a shiny new
Tony Iltis, Melbourne
On May 29, Preston Markets management called the police to a Socialist Alliance campaign stall. Since 1999, the stall has been held regularly on Saturdays at the markets.
Activists at the stall were leafleting for the June
Sarah Stephen
Aladdin Sisalem, a 25-year-old Palestinian born in Kuwait, has spent the last four years in search of a country that could offer him freedom from persecution. On May 31, he finally found it, as he flew into Melbourne with a visa in
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