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Bows, bees and surf skis illegal at CHOGM protests

BY TIM STEWART In case you were wondering what to bring along to the protests outside the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane on October 6, the Queensland goverment has issued a list of prohibited items under special police powers

Labor to guard the coasts

BY SARAH STEPHEN Opposition spokesperson Con Sciacca has stated that the latest influx of asylum seekers showed the government's approach was not acting as a deterrent. "For all their bravado and chest-beating, Prime Minister John Howard and

Fifteen countries hold key to saving world's forests

LONDON — Efforts to save the world's last, critically important forests should initially focus on just a handful of countries, a new report has found. A unique satellite-based survey of the planet's remaining unbroken forests, which include virgin,

UQ students hit back with CHOGM posters

BY SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE — By the afternoon of August 22 the University of Queensland was covered with posters against the October 6 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The mass paste-up was part of a coordinated action in opposition to the

Loose cannons

You'd better believe it! "A vote for Jason Hatton is a vote for tough anti-social behaviour." — August 17 advertisement in the NT News for the Country Liberal Party candidate for the Northern Territory seat of Nightcliff. Eternal damnation not

Museworthy: Bestseller

It was a very quiet countryWhere I livedThe president saidWhat to be governed byIf not a lawCan you see them standing in lineFor love My friends and neighboursMade it clear to meThat they enter these places secretlyTheir homesBut will usually come

We must become 'less attractive', PM vows

BY SARAH STEPHEN It's hard to believe that it's possible, but the federal government is proposing to get even tougher on asylum seekers who arrive without proper documentation. Restrictions on their right to appeal, new regulations allowing

State schools crumbling, report reveals

BY KATHY NEWNAM ADELAIDE — At least 50 schools in the state are in a dire situation, with broken windows, leaking roofs, inadequate space and determined neglect by the education department, according to a new investigation into South Australia's

Red flag is raised in Darwin

BY GARY MEYERHOFF DARWIN — With counting completed in the August 18 Northern Territory elections, the Socialist Alliance's Peter Johnston, a veteran anti-racism campaigner, led the charge with 4.5% of the vote in Fannie Bay, an excellent result,

US backs apartheid Israel

@box text intr = The United States government's threat to boycott the UN-organised World Conference Against Racism, being held in South Africa from August 31, raises the question why the self-proclaimed "land of the free" would want to avoid a

Socialists to make a splash

BY LISA LINES ADELAIDE — While students at the University of Adelaide will note the usual suspects — Labor left, Labor right, "Independents", Liberals — running for office in elections to the students' association and union, the first

COLOMBIA: Indigenous people beat Big Oil

The news long awaited by Colombia's U'wa tribe and its thousands of supporters around the world has finally arrived: the Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) has announced that it has failed to find oil at the Gibraltar 1 well site on the