Refugees
At a recent Politics in the Pub forum in Sydney, a cheer went up when a speaker, Phil Glendenning (director of the Edmund Rice Centre) said: "We must internationalise this issue." That issue is the ill-treatment of refugees in Australia.
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Peter Boyle
I'll tell you all the news.I lived in a suburb,a suburb of Madrid, with bells,and clocks, and trees ...And one morning all that was burning,one morning the bonfiresleapt out of the earthdevouring human beings —and from then on
Jose Pertierra
Cuba calls the shots; and Venezuela pays the bills. That is the major premise underlying the report made public on July 10 by the US State Department concerning Cuba. Its findings are as much about the Bush administration's plans for
Magali and Brian McDuffie
Opponents of a new bypass through Tugun, in northern NSW, say the state-federal supported development will endanger hundreds of species of plants and animals and ride roughshod over an important Aboriginal site, the
Fred Fuentes
Several hundred participants in this year's Students of Sustainability conference marched through the streets of central Brisbane on July 14 to celebrate the conclusion of the conference.
The marchers raised awareness of some of the
Kerryn Williams
Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez condemned Israel's bombing of Lebanon, commenting that "They are bombing entire cities, it is a true genocide. Where will this madness end?", according to a July 21 VHeadline.com report.
Jen Jewel Brown
Early on July 6, Lisa Bellear said goodnight and went to bed at her home in Brunswick. That morning, the widely admired, clean living, apparently healthy Minjungbul woman was dead. She was barely 45, and the coroner reported that
Ian Lowe
Energy is the basis of modern civilisation. We have easier lives than our grandparents did because we use much more energy: electricity, gas and transport fuels.
Our energy use is equivalent to 40 human slaves working for us in shifts,
Mel Hughes, Sydney
This year's Queer Collaborations (QC) conference, held at the University of New South Wales on July 3-7, was attended by 250 people, most of them university students.
The conference — Australia's largest national forum for
A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of FreedomBy David WilliamsThe New Press, 2005594 pages, $51 (hb)
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"What class has most interest in the war and has made the most money by it, and sacrificed the
Mel Hughes, Adelaide
Prime Minister John Howard "has a heart of stone", Terry Hicks, father of David Hicks, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly on July 15, the day international protests were held against the Australian citizen's continued detention at the US
The National Union of Workers has condemned a decision by Nestle to shed 44 jobs — one-third of its work force — at the Purina PetCare factory in the small central-western NSW town of Blayney.
NUW state secretary Derrick Belan said on July 20
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