Roberto Jorquera, Melbourne
On October 29, a stall selling Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in the inner-city suburb of Brunswick was ordered to leave by police who had been called by the Barkly Square Shopping Centre management.
Barkly Square has been the
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Emma Murphy, Adelaide
The Rice/Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) has received, from various sources, reliable information that US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be in Adelaide on November 16-18.
This information follows several months
According to a report issued on October 24 by the Palestinian National Information Centre, 4172 Palestinians have been killed and 8435 have been wounded in the five years since the beginning of the Al Aqsa intifada. Of those killed, 783 were
Big bucks and the triumph of Wests Tigers
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
In a nation dominated by the ruling class, where sport is a commodity ruled by big money - more like a Big Mac on wheels than an athletics contest - sometimes remarkable events,
The Latham DiariesBy Mark LathamMelbourne University Press, 2005429 pages, $39.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
No wonder federal ALP politicians are narked. Mark Latham, after eleven years in federal parliament (including a year as leader of the
Compensation for trumped-up charge
Five years ago, high profile lawyer Adam Houda was arrested at Burwood Local Court on a trumped-up assault charge by police. On October 25, he received $145,000 compensation, plus interest.
The lawyer, who
Federico Fuentes, La Paz
After travelling 18 hours from La Paz on a number of different buses and a trek through mud and rain to cross flooded roads, I arrived in Chimore, a town of 2000 residents in Bolivia's remote Chapare jungle, located 580
It wasn't her fault
"I can honestly say that without Mrs Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as secretary of state." — NeoCondoleezza Rice at a memorial service for black civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who died on October 25.
The following is an abridged message of solidarity issued by Venezuela's National Union of Workers (UNT).
The National Union of Workers of Venezuela backs the actions of the Australian workers in their struggle against the anti-union laws being
PERTH — As part of this year's Pride Parade, held on October 29, the Cross-Campus Queer Network, the Western Australian network for queer university students, put together a parade float opposing the Howard government's anti-student union and
Margarita Windisch & Susan Price, Caracas
One thousand delegates crammed into the Teatro Teresa Careno to hear President Hugo Chavez open the first Latin American Conference of Enterprises Recovered and Controlled by Workers, held on October
Doug Lorimer
In the face of growing criticism from lawyers, civil liberties groups and even some Coalition backbenchers of the proposed new "anti-terrorism" laws, Prime Minister John Howard called a special media conference in Canberra on November
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