On February 16, ABC News featured the US military prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis vilifying Adelaide father of two David Hicks as a war criminal. Davis would not specify when Hicks would be brought before a military tribunal of the type that was ruled illegal by the US Supreme Court last June but reinstituted by Congress a few months later.
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A disturbing trend is spreading across Australian universities 聴 some universities have begun barring political groups from orientation week (o-week) events.
Two months before the Howard government鈥檚 draconian Welfare to Work package went to federal parliament, Labor鈥檚 spokesperson for employment and workplace participation Penny Wong argued that the proposals were 鈥渢he most extreme attack on the social security system in history鈥.
Blood Diamond
Directed by Edward Zwick
With Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly
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Directed by Edward Zwick
With Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly
In cinemas
The global youth radicalisation of the 1960s illustrated the revolutionary potential of students in society. Young people and students have played a vital role in revolutionary struggles in the past and continue to do so today. In Latin America, young people are energetic leaders and participants in the social movements, and in Venezuela, young people view themselves as being the 鈥渇oot soldiers鈥 of the revolution.
Rachel Siewert, Greens senator for Western Australia, is concerned that the federal opposition hasn聮t come out more strongly against the government聮s welfare package. 聯We would get rid of Welfare to Work and look towards better options that support people聰, she told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
As a schoolboy, Maximilien Robespierre gave a speech of welcome for King Louis XVI in a 1775 coronation ceremony at his college in Paris. Eighteen years later, Louis was decapitated by Robespierre聮s revolutionary government. What, asks Ruth Scurr in her biography of Robespierre, had turned the dutiful student into a regicide, whose name in conventional history has left behind 聯no trace but terror聰?
Azad Arman, a socialist from the Kurdish region of northern Iraq who fled his homeland in 1991 and is now living in Australia, said life in Iraqi Kurdistan today is 聯miserable聰.
An article by Adele Horin in the February 15 Sydney Morning Herald reported the findings of a world authority on income inequality, Sir Anthony Atkinson, of Oxford University, which he presented at a seminar at the social policy research centre at the University of NSW.
Protests against tuition fees brought Canada to a standstill on February 7. In Toronto, as temperatures dropped to as low as -20掳C, more than 6000 students took to the streets, demanding the government increase funding to make post-secondary education accessible.
PM John Howard is facing an election later this year and knows that his government聮s support for Washington聮s war in Iraq is highly unpopular 聴 hence his vituperative attacks on Labor leader Kevin Rudd聮s pledge to withdraw Australian troops.
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