A ConversationBy David WilliamsonDirected by Sandra BatesEnsemble Theatre, SydneyUntil November 3
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
The theme of violence against innocents, and the justice or impunity that follows, has never been more timely. The real
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BY ALISON DELLIT
In 1970, thousands of young people joined Edwin Starr in asking "War — What is it good for?". In 2001, Prime Minister John Howard has come up with an answer — winning elections.
Before September 11, Howard was facing down one
BY SARAH STEPHEN
MELBOURNE — October 3 was to be the first day of the three-day blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum — the O3 blockade. But in the wake of Howard's cancellation of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, and with it
BY CAROL BERRY
WOLLONGONG — Stages 2-6 of the upmarket housing development at Sandon Point were approved in a decision by the NSW Land and Environment Court last week. The decision on the first stage of the development has yet to be handed down.
Encouraging racism
I'm writing in response to Ahmad Nimer's article in GLW #464 "Attacks on US leave Israel the winner".
I simply cannot understand how such biassed and one-sided articles are allowed to be published in the GLW newspaper. His
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Jocelyn Scutt ruled on September 21 that the Tasmania University Union (TUU) will not be allowed to restrict the newly created men's officer position to men.
The men's officer position
BY BRUNO RODRIGUEZ
[The following is an abridged version of a speech by Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuba's permanent representative to the United Nations, delivered at the UN General Assembly session on October 1, 2001.]
In a speech delivered just
According to a report in the September 15 Los Angeles Times, the politically charged rock band Rage Against the Machine had the bulletin board service on its official web site closed after fans made postings — including one reportedly threatening
BY NORM DIXON
On September 26, police opened fire on protesting residents in Tafelsig, Cape Town, who had mobilised to prevent 1800 households' water supplies being cut off by the Cape Town Unicity council.
At least 15 people were wounded in the
Administrative behaviour
"If members of free society think this kind of treatment is conducive to a prisoner's inclination to rehabilitate himself or herself, they are mistaken." — Irving Elmer Bell.
Several years ago, my mother wrote to me
BY PHIL SHANNON
CANBERRA — Payroll services, including the production and delivery of fortnightly payslips, for staff in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care have been outsourced during the previous year to a private company. In
Green parties around the world have differing opinions on planned US-led military strikes on Afghanistan in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most have expressed concern about military attacks, but without opposing them outright.
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