Graham Milner, Perth
The crisis in mental health care in Western Australia has reached severe proportions. There are now rumours that the state government is preparing a new funding package for the sector without community consultation.
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Federico Fuentes
Toronto student Daniel Freeman-Maloy is finally able to return to his studies after York University dropped its bid to ban him for three years for taking part in political protests.
Freeman-Maloy is an active member of Solidarity
The feminist struggle against the oppression of women has expressed itself in a commitment to gender equality — to winning equal rights for women, to gaining more access for women to jobs, to equal pay and to ending violence by men against women.
Sue Bolton
The expulsion from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union on July 21 of former Victorian state secretary Craig Johnston is totally unjustified and violates all union principle.
By this act, AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron and
Roberto Jorquera
A new opinion poll, conducted on July 15-22 by the US opinion research firm Evans McDonough Company (EMC), indicates that Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's radical left-wing president, could win the August 15 recall referendum with a
I originally come from what is now a developing nation. Malaysia introduced me to racism in school, where three races were pitched against each other and race was used to politically organise people into voting blocks.
Travelling to Britain to do a
PERTH — PM John Howard came to Perth's working-class eastern suburbs on July 29 to campaign in the marginal Labor seat of Hasluck. He was met by a crowd of 100 protesters as he entered Midland Town Hall.
"The crowd represented a fair cross
Rachel Evans, Sydney
On July 25, at least 250 people rallied at Sydney Town Hall to protest bipartisan support for amendments to the federal Marriage Act 1961 that would outlaw same-sex marriage.
Organised by Community Action Against Homophobia
Refuge Australia: Australia's humanitarian recordBy Klaus NeumannUNSW Press128 pages, $16.95 pb
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Refuge Australia has an explosive opening. It relates three stories of refugees, which could have been set in the present: the
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
AMERICAN GULAG: Inside US Immigration PrisonsBy Mark DowUniversity of California Press, 2004413 pages, $55 (hb)
"You African monkeys should go back to your country", was how the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service
Thousands of protesters marched past the Democratic National Convention on July 25 in opposition to the Democratic Party's support for the war on Iraq. Protesters held signs demanding: "Bring the troops home now!" and "End the occupation of Iraq,
Doug Lorimer
The United Nations has failed to persuade enough member countries to contribute troops to provide protection for its planned mission to Iraq, according to the July 21 Los Angeles Times. The UN was seeking at least 1000 troops from
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