BY JACK A. SMITH
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's past political misdeeds are catching up to him at last. Some human rights groups are trying to have him arrested as a war criminal for his involvement in Washington's war to dominate
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BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — The Western Australian Labor government has passed legislation that will allow WA police to conduct compulsory DNA tests.
By November 1, WA police will routinely obtain DNA samples from a wide range of suspects,
REVIEW BY MARK STOYICH
CopenhagenBy Michael FraynSydney Theatre CompanyWith John Gaden, Jane Harders and Colin FrielsWharf TheatreUntil July 14
Why did Werner Heisenberg, the leading German nuclear physicist during the World War II, visit his old
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — Federal workplace relations minister Tony Abbott is lashing out at the two main militant unions that defend their members' rights, regardless of the federal government's anti-worker industrial relations laws.
The two
BY SOPHIE FISCHER
Capitalists like to pretend that young people aren't really people at all. People under 18 are not allowed to drink, smoke, lease a house or even get a library card without "adult" permission.
There are many other restrictions
BY ADAM BAKER
BRISBANE — "Australia has mistreated the Aboriginal people for more than 200 years. Why can't we show some compassion?", pleaded a resident opposed to the proposed Pinkenba refugee detention centre during a 100-strong meeting at
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Twelve workers from the Dayson compressor manufacturing plant at Rydalmere have been on strike for more than four weeks. The strike began when seven workers, including two union delegates, were sacked without notice on
BY NOAM CHOMSKY
"What we feared has come true", Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling wrote in a leading newspaper in Israel a year ago. Jews and Palestinians are "regressing to superstitious tribalism... War appears an unavoidable fate", an "evil
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On June 18, the federal government was forced to introduce into the Senate regulations it had drafted 12 days earlier to excise some 3500 islands from Australia's migration zone, islands which run from 200 kilometres south of
Colombia is the most dangerous country for trade unionists. This was the finding of a survey conducted by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). In 2001, 201 trade unionists were reported killed or disappeared in Colombia. This
Axis of misogyny
"We have realised that without countries like Sudan, abortion would have been recognised as a universal human right in a UN document" — Austin Ruse, president of the US Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, quoted in the
BY JON LAND
East Timor's recently elected president, Xanana Gusmao, arrived in Canberra on June 17 for his first official state visit to Australia. Accompanied by foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta and other East Timorese representatives, Gusmao
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