IRAQ: US bombing kills 100,000 civilians
About 100,000 Iraqi civilians — half of them women and children — have died since the US-led invasion in March 2003, most of them as a result of air strikes by the US-led occupation forces. The
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I spent fifteen years in a single cellThe cold could be predicted, food not soMy body languished, my spirit fed well.
I shivered with the ghosts of those who fellTwo tiny holes let in a concrete glowI spent fifteen years in a single cell.
My
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Support for the One Mile Dam Aboriginal community, just outside Darwin's CBD, has been growing since the launch of the Kumbutjil Association in early 2004.
But this support has not been matched by action from the NT
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Green groups slam SE Qld regional plan
BRISBANE — Conservation organisations have criticised the Queensland government's draft south-east Queensland regional plan, released for public comment on October 27, labelling it a sham and a threat
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Message Stick: Thancoupie — Profiles Australia's most famous Indigenous potter renowned for creating stunning spherical forms with Indigenous designs. ABC, Friday November 5, 6pm.
Transamazonian Highway — Includes footage of the
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UWA NTEU supports jailed unionist
PERTH — On October 27, the University of Western Australia branch committee of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) passed a motion expressing concern at the jailing of Victorian trade unionist
Frederico Fuentes
Facing extradition proceedings to stand trial in Bolivia for the deaths of 67 people during the October 2003 popular uprising that forced his resignation, former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada told the October 22
Nicole Hilder, Wollongong
Refusing to be intimidated by the September 19 fire-bombing of the Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the "Sandonistas" — Save Sandon Point activists — continue to take on the NSW government, Wollongong Council and
The Chequebook and the Cruise-Missile: Conversations with Arundhati RoyBy David BarsamianHarper Perennial, 2004178 pages, $22.95 (tpb)
Review by Lachlan Malloch
Arundhati Roy is usually introduced as "the Indian writer who won the 1997 Booker
Since Howard's federal election victory on October 9, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's website has had a huge surge of visitors.
It seems that many people, faced with the horrible prospect of three more years of Coalition government attacks on workers,
Sarah Stephen
Hundreds of people have responded with enthusiasm to the call for a convergence on Canberra on November 16 — the day parliament opens. This will be the first opportunity to come together in a national protest against the newly
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
Munira Amer's house was once surrounded by green fields, gardens and an agricultural nursery full of olive and decorative trees, grapevines and flowers, which her husband Hani took care of. Now the land around Munira and
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