Joao Carrascalao, a cabinet member of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, told ABC radio on June 4 that telecommunications carrier Telstra is spying on Timorese leaders' phone calls for the Australian government.
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BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — The streets outside Lismore courthouse were enlivened on June 4 by chanting protesters, anti-corporate banners, and clouds of illicit smoke. The 200-strong crowd had gathered in solidarity with three people arrested for
The Irish band has U2 has outraged Burmese officials over the inclusion of a track on the band's album All That You Can't Leave Behind. The military regime has introduced legislation to ban the album because of the song, "Walk on", which is a tribute
BY SUE BOLAND
The 21 adult Australian residents detained by the Indonesian police
June 8-9 have sent an open letter to foreign minister Alexander Downer,
demanding that the Australian government issue a statement condemning the
Indonesian
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — The Liberals have only just managed to hold on to the lower house seat of Nedlands in a by-election on June 9. Greens candidate Steve Walker came within 3.5% of stealing the blue-ribbon Liberal seat.
The seat was
BY QAMAR NASEEB KHAN
PERTH AIRPORT DETENTION CENTRE — I was born in Kashmir, which has been disputed territory between India and Pakistan for 54 years. Since 1989, 70,000 people have been killed, 12,000 women have been raped and 200,000 are held
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On June 14, a converted fishing boat, the Sea of Change, docked in Dublin, Ireland, its first stop in a pilot project to offer safe access to pregnancy terminations, family planning and contraception to women in countries which
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — The usefulness of revolutionary solutions to "globalisation" featured prominently in the discussion at the June 13 public forum organised by the M1 Alliance. This was despite the fact that only one of the featured
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
Lost and DeliriousDirected by Lea PoolWith Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo and Jessica PareScreening at the Sydney Film Festival, State Theatre and Dendy Opera Quays, until June 22
Mary "Mouse" Bradford (played by Mischa
Corporate collapses: Make the rich pay
BY ALISON DELLIT
It has not been a good two months for the “old boys” of the elite
Cranbrook School in the affluent Sydney suburb of Point Piper. Following
the collapse of insurance giant HIH, 1976
BY PIP HINMAN
For one and a half days, from the morning of June 7, the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference, held a holiday resort outside Jakarta, had been proceeding relatively smoothly. Eighty Indonesian democracy activists and more than
BY BRONWYN REES-ALLEN & LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — On June 8 a large contingent from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) joined 250 protesters outside the Nike superstore in Swanston Street. The presence of the militant union
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