Avatar is real: the fictional planet of Pandora exists in South and Central America, and the Na'vi peoples are being displaced and killed right now. The names are different, but the facts are almost the same.
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Politicians and newspapers love to revere a war hero from Afghanistan. It鈥檚 strange, then, that they haven鈥檛 got round to Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton, the British soldier who has been arrested for addressing an anti-war protest in October.
The recent murder of Nitin Garg highlighted continuing violence against Indian students. It has led some to ask 鈥淚s Australia a racist country?鈥 and put others on the defensive about Australia鈥檚 racist image.
After being confronted by protests in New Zealand, Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer was met by a protest organised by Australians For Palestine at the Australian Open in Melbourne on January 19.
On January 18, the 250 Tamil asylum seekers in Merak, Indonesia, had spent 100 days on their boat in appalling conditions. This is despite almost half of them being already recognised by the United Nations as refugees.
The Socialist Alliance鈥檚 candidate in the February 13 Altona district bi-election, Margarita Windisch, has welcomed state transport minister Lynne Kosky鈥檚 resignation as overdue. But she says Kosky was just a symptom of a larger problem for Victorians 鈥 a negligent Labor government with the wrong priorities.
Eleven men detained in the Christmas Island detention centre have been charged and appeared in court on January 20 over a fight that broke out among 150 asylum seekers on November 21. They were remanded until a later date.
I read Volume One of Karl Marx's Capital while working on a production line in a food factory.
Bashings of Indian students continue, revealing that despite official statements to the contrary, racism in Australia persists.
Since the balance of forces within the Coalition shifted rightwards with the one-vote win by 鈥渕ad monk鈥 Tony Abbott over Malcolm Turnbull for leader, the media have been wondering whether his line of frenzied warfare against the Rudd Labor government can succeed where the millionaire merchant banker failed.
Iraqi Girl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq Edited by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, developed by John RossHaymarket Books, Chicago, 2009206 pp, $24.95
A group of activists known as the 鈥淣ewcastle 23鈥 went before the Newcastle Local Court on January 19. The 23 are charged with 鈥渞ail safety offences鈥 on December 20, after they stopped a coal train in response to the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks to agree to adequate binding emissions cuts.
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