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Angry young voices

GoHeiferOrder from <qsfix1@ozemail.com.au> BY BARRY HEALY SYDNEY — Heifer are a struggling independent band carving out a niche for themselves in the live pub rock scene that thrives in the outer western suburbs of Sydney out of the

Critical Mass criticised

BY MELANIE COUTMAN NEWCASTLE — Posters have started to appear around the University of Newcastle advertising the next Critical Mass. But rather than promote the action as what it is, a bike ride protest against car dependence, the posters imply

Judge: I will not 'punish them for being refugees'

BY SARAH STEPHEN While the spotlight may have moved off refugee detention centres, the misery of asylum seekers there has worsened. On November 18, six Iranian asylum seekers escaped from Woomera, the "hell-hole" of Australia's detention centres,

Holding the North accountable

BY STEPHANIE LONG The living standards of the industrialised Northern countries owe a great deal to the massive flow of natural resources and work (either as slave or underpaid labour) from the countries which make up the Third World, the

Off the beaten track

BY BRENDAN DOYLE, GLW travel writer VILLAWOOD DETENTION CENTRE, SYDNEY — A little out of the way, but definitely worth a look! How to get there By train: Alight at Leightonfield Station and walk north for 15 minutes. Don't be daunted by the

Museworthy: The Law of Ears and Also Things Close

Museworthy: The Law of Ears and Also Things Close "If sound waves carry on to infinity,where are their screams now?"Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces sound as close as my earsand upon the side of the green hilla lace of seagullsunravelling its own

Corporate scumbags: Scumbucks

Corporate scumbags: Scumbucks The coffee industry is one based on the super-exploitation of Third World farmers, many of whom live in dire poverty, at the mercy of the weather and a fluctuating market, whilst speculators and corporate heads

AFGHANISTAN: This war of lies goes on

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON, November 16 — There is no victory in Afghanistan's tribal war, only the exchange of one group of killers for another. The difference is that President Bush calls the latest occupiers of Kabul "our friends". However

Howard gives go-ahead to new uranium mine

BY JIM GREEN The Howard government approved the Honeymoon uranium mine in north-eastern South Australia on November 21. Canadian-based mining company Southern Cross Resources is expected to begin commercial production next year. The mine,

Activists to discuss war, racism

BY FRED FUENTES MELBOURNE — Activists from around the country will converge on Melbourne on December 2-3 for an anti-war and anti-racism conference jointly organised by the National Union of Students and ANSWER, Act Now to Stop War and End

Herb Feith, 1930-2001

BY RACHEL EVANS Herb Feith, renowned Indonesianist and community activist, and my uncle, died tragically in a train accident on November 15. Herb will be missed by people all over the world who he touched with his compassion, intellect and

and ain't i a woman?: Stand together for lesbian rights

and ain't i a woman?: Stand together for lesbian rights Western Australia's laws regarding gay men and lesbians — some of the most repressive in the Western world — have been challenged by a working body established by the state Labor