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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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

Howard's tightrope: too much racism vs too little

BY ALISON DELLIT After losing to a party which did not even pretend to expect to win, it's no surprise that the Country Liberal Party is regretting its decision to preference One Nation ahead of Labor in the Northern Territory elections. It is

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

Drug summit proposes health-based solutions

BY GRANT COLEMAN PERTH — After months of media hysteria and political point-scoring, a community drug summit has come out in support of health-based solutions for the treatment of heroin use. Despite a fairly narrow agenda, the 100 delegates,

How Washington got Japan to attack

Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl HarborBy Robert StinnettTouchstone Books, 2001416 pages, US$12.80 (pb)Available from <http://Amazon.com> REVIEW BY ASHLEY SMITH You should never get your history lessons from Disney