Norm Barber, Adelaide
"We get people housing", a bulky, 50ish woman tells me, her Street to Home identification card hidden inside her shirt. "Where are the houses?", I ask. She laughs. "We help people in other ways", she counters. When asked she
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Following a June 12 protest for women's rights in Tehran that was brutally attacked by police, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to an Iranian feminist, Roshan (not her real name), about the situation facing women in Iran and the battle for women's rights.
Graham Matthews, Sydney
On July 18, NSW police minister Carl Scully, accompanied by assistant police commissioner Graeme Morgan, held a media conference to announce the final results of strike force Enoggera — the police task force charged with
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The Didipio community in the province of Nueva Vizcaya on Luzon, the Philippines' largest island, is campaigning against a proposed gold and copper mine that could have a devastating impact on the area. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to JP
John Hallam
That the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missile technologies is a bad thing that should be strongly discouraged is beyond doubt. The probability that by malice, madness, miscalculation or malfunction, a nuclear weapon will again
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"I have sympathy for friends who work in the corporate media. It's a terrible burden to be setting
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"The Australian government is not doing enough to rescue my wife and children", Rami Abdallah said on July 20 as he was about to leave Sydney for Beruit. "I am involved in my local community, I have given my all to Australia, yet the
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"Peak oil", the notion that the world's supply of oil is entering a period of ever
On July 17 PM John Howard, in an address to the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) at the Sydney Convention Centre, outlined his "vision" for Australia's energy future. "As an efficient, reliable supplier, Australia has a
Ben Courtice
Victoria's Labor government announced on July 17 a plan to increase the share of renewable energy generation in the state from 4% to 10% of total energy production by 2016.
Under the plan, companies that sell electricity to the
CANBERRA — As part of their "Clean start for cleaners" campaign, members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union marched through the streets on July 20 before occupying the lobby of a major building owned by the Deutsche Bank group.
Simon Cunich, Sydney
Students inflicted a small blow to the Australian military machine on July 18 when they stopped a department of defence briefing at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
The defence department was on campus to promote
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