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SYDNEY — The NSW Labor government has announced that riot police with Tasers, CS gas and police dogs can now be used against children detained in juvenile detention facilities. Juvenile justice minister Tony Kelly is quoted in the April 6 Sydney
Doug Lorimer "Shiite Muslim religious leaders ratcheted up their rhetoric against the United States during Friday prayers", the April 1 Los Angeles Times reported, adding that "Shiite religious leaders throughout the country ... condemned a March
Jim Green From the corporate media reports of the uranium export agreement struck between Canberra and Beijing last week, you could be forgiven for not knowing that China need not subject a single gram of Australian uranium to safeguards
Tim Anderson While New Matilda magazine's proposal for a bill of rights in 2006 is far superior to the 1999 republic proposal and failed referendum (to simply impose an appointed president in place of a constitutional monarch), I think it will fail
The Cuban Revolution and Venezuela and Barrio Adentro and Other Social Missions in the Bolivarian revolutionBy German SanchezOcean Press, 200633 pages REVIEW BY EMMA CLANCY German Sanchez, Cuban ambassador to Venezuela since 1994, offers the
Jon Lamb, Brisbane Queensland Labor Premier Peter Beattie announced on April 4 that he no longer opposes uranium mining in Queensland. This will give mining companies the green light to increase uranium exploration. One site near Mt Isa, known as
Sarah Stephen Soon after the federal government's decision to grant 42 West Papuan asylum seekers temporary protection visas, an April 2 national day of action in solidarity with West Papua welcomed the decision while urging the government not to
Chris Peterson, Melbourne The Terminate Tulla Toxic Dump Action Group (TTTDAG) is having some success in their campaign to get the dangerous toxic dump, close to residents and the Tullamarine airport, closed down. While they are yet to get
WaterDirected by Deepa MehtaStarring Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham and SaralaDendy FilmsScreening from April 13 REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM "There are three options from which widows may choose, according to our texts. They may burn with
Peter Boyle With the world as it is, some people imagine that a publication like Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly has only more and more bad news to report. But that's not true. There is good news to be covered, and one source of such news is the GLW bureau in
Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter, Caracas "I think it is possible to build socialism. We are demonstrating it already", Lilibet Sira Torres, Caracas director of the Frente de Francisco Miranda, told Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly. The FFM is a revolutionary youth
MELBOURNE — On April 5, 200 Yarraville residents blocked off the intersection of Francis Street and Williamstown Road as part of the Maribyrnong Truck Action Group's campaign to limit truck traffic on residential streets. For more information