BY ERIN KILLION
NEWCASTLE — The 150 activists who gathered for it will certainly long remember this year's annual Queer Collaborations conference, held here from July 9-13.
The formal agenda prepared by the QC organising collective included
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BY ALISON DELLIT
The debate between Joyce Wu (GLW #457: "Labor left in bed with the sex industry") and Lev Lafayette and Anthony Leong (GLW #458: "The sex industry: Socialism or censorship?") has raised an important question: is the sex industry
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
More than 200 organisations and individuals worldwide have signed a statement of solidarity with the struggle by students and workers in Papua New Guinea against an International Monetary Fund and World Bank-mandated economic
On July 11 Maryam Ayoobi was stoned to death by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ayoobi, a mother in her late twenties, was imprisoned a year ago and sentenced to death for committing adultery.
The International Committee Against Stoning had organised
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Security at Sydney's Villawood immigration detention centre will be tightened in response to recommendations made in a report by Knowledge Enterprises' Keith Hamburger, former director of Queensland's prisons department.
NT nurses strike
DARWIN — On July 26 NT nurses decided to reject a 4% pay offer, and take industrial action for the first time in twenty years. With an annual rate of inflation of 6%, the government's offer represents a drop in real wages. The
Ranting I
"Globalisation describes what is happening. And ranting against globalisation is like ranting against the telephone. You can use the telephone for good or for ill. So too the wider process (of which the telephone is part) can be a force
BY MAX LANE
An intense struggle is underway within the Indonesian elite over how to divide up the spoils after the ousting of President Abdurrahman Wahid. On August 3, 12 days after Megawati Sukarnoputri was elected president by the People's
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Hundreds of supporters of Cuba have gathered here twice in the past two weeks to celebrate the 48th anniversary of the July 26, 1953, storming of the Moncada barracks, the spark which set off the Cuban Revolution six
Prison isn't virtual
Supporters of freedom of speech in cyberspace have been demonstrating in the flesh across the United States for the last fortnight. In San Jose, capital of the US high technology Silicon Valley, the New York Times reports that
BY SUSAN BARLEY
SYDNEY — "From the Sierra Maestra mountains to the Blue Mountains" was the theme of the inaugural Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly solidarity dinner in the Blue Mountains, held at the Mid-Mountains Community Centre on July 28.
Ricardo Andino
@box text intr = Joseph Goebbels, the notorious Nazi propagandist (a job which today would be called "spin doctor"), came up with a theory in the 1930s called the Big Lie: the bigger the lie you tell people, the theory went, and the more you repeat
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