MELBOURNE — Jack Thomas, a 31-year-old former taxi driver facing charges under the federal government's "anti-terrorism laws", won a significant victory on March 15 when the prosecution's appeal against Thomas's bail was thrown out of court. Thomas
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Members of the Gana and Gwi bushmen tribes of the Kalahari used the March 8-12 World Tourism Fair in Berlin to launch a boycott call. The Gana and Gwi are calling for a moratorium on tourist development in the Kalahiri Game Reserve until they are
On March 19, 22 Georgetown University students entered their sixth day of hunger strike, demanding the university pays all its workers a living wage. Under university regulations, subcontracted janitors must be paid US$8.50 an hour. One janitor,
On March 16, the US Senate approved opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, voting 51 to 49 to defeat an attempt to remove ANWR drilling allowance from the budget bill. The oil industry believes that there are billions of gallons
Zoe Kenny, Sydney
Students around the country responded angrily to the news that the government introduced its "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation into federal parliament on March 16.
The government is attempting to push through the
Katelyn Mountford
If you followed only the "news" of the mainstream media in recent weeks, you might have been forgiven for assuming that the war on Iraq was over. Only one story was deemed important enough by the news editors of the Fairfax and
In early March, an Israeli military paramedic was arrested and sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for distributing sweets and fruit to Palestinian detainees in the prison he worked in. Reportedly a reservist drafted into the army, the paramedic
James J. Brittain
The US and the Colombian state have, since the 1960s, implemented a coercive socio-economic and military campaign to destroy the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). However, this half-century effort has
Doug Lorimer
On March 11 the US government announced it would back the diplomatic efforts of Britain, France and Germany — the "EU-3" — in offering Iran economic incentives to abandon its plans to carry out uranium enrichment for its nuclear
I do not knowwhat will happen after I die.I do not want to know.But I would like the Potter to make a whistlefrom the clay of my throat.May this whistle fall into the handsof a cheeky and naughty childand the child to blow hard on the whistle
James Vassilopoulos
The Coalition government is selling its regressive industrial relations plans with promises of prosperity for all, jobs growth and productivity growth. The reality, however, will be a significant loss of basic working
By Linda Waldron, Melbourne
Young Somali man Hussein Farah, who was at the centre of protests in Footscray in November 2003 against police racism and violence, was acquitted in the Sunshine Magistrates Court on March 4 of charges of resisting
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