Rachel Evans, Sydney
One-hundred-and-fifty people joined the Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) contingent in the 27th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade on March 5.
The Socialist Alliance, the Canterbury Bankstown Gay and
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Iraq
Dominant propaganda broadcasts the social myth that "our boys are just doing a job" in Iraq. Such language sanitizes, deodorises and legitimises Australia's armed "liberation" taskforce. When our "checkpoint" soldiers shoot and wound a woman
Roberto Jorquera,
Santiago
On March 6, Chilean Communist Party president
Gladys Marin died at the age of 63 after a 18-month battle
with cancer. As soon as her death was made public at 6am, many
people began to gather outside her house
James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne
On March 8, staff at Victoria University (VU) went on strike in support of their demands for a new enterprise agreement. A picket line was established to persuade scabs and students not to enter the university. The
On March 3, a Prison Officers Association official told the inquiry into the 2000 murder of 19-year-old Zahid Mubarek in Feltham Young Offenders Institute that prison officers had been engineering "gladiator style" fights between inmates for
On March 9, a Zimbabwean asylum seeker jumped out the window of her fourth floor flat when she found out that the government intended to deport her. The Home Office resumed deporting failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe in November, despite a UN
Peter Boyle, Sydney
Peter and Barbara Perkins are relieved that the police hunt for their grandson Jesse Kelly, in the wake of recent youth riots against police in the poor outer Sydney suburb of Macquarie Fields, is finally over. Kelly surrendered
On March 11, a new information kit, Be Informed: ASIO and Anti-Terrorism Laws, was launched at NSW parliament. Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon and Agnes Chong from the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network addressed the launch. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's
More than 110 million active mines are scattered in 70 countries and an equal number are stockpiled waiting to be planted.
Every month more than 2000 people are killed or maimed by mine explosions — mostly civilians, after hostilities have
Jon Lamb
"We went to East Timor to help those people, and now we are slapping them in the face and stealing their oil."
This is what Chip Henriss-Anderssen, a former major in the Australian military who served with the International Force for
The Murdoch ArchipelagoBy Bruce PageSimon and Schuster, 2003580 pages, $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY RUSSELL PINK
Bruce Page's The Murdoch Archipelago is, at nearly 600 pages, the most comprehensive and penetrating study of how two men, father and son,
On March 8, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers called off its four year boycott of Taco Bell, after the fast-food giant agreed to pay a penny-per-pound surcharge for its tomatoes, the money to go to the indigent immigrant pickers who make up the CIW.
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