Dale Mills
After US peace activist Scott Parkin was deported from Australia on September 15 for being a "threat to national security" many students he worked with at Sydney University are being put under surveillance.
On September 15, Sydney
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Doug Lorimer
In an interview broadcast on ABC TV's Lateline program on September 12, London-based Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger criticised PM John Howard's plans to introduce new, "tougher" anti-terrorism laws.
"There are two
Zane Alcorn and Simon Butler, Newcastle
Ask almost any resident here what they think about the rail line running along the harbour foreshore and prepare yourself for a lengthy, fervent conversation. Since the NSW Labor government first proposed the
Eva Cheng
Even though the Vietnam War ended 30 years ago, the US's saturation chemical bombing is still wreaking havoc on millions, including the newly born — making them third-generation victims. Nobody knows when the congenital deformities, one
Doug Lorimer
In a September 19 statement accompanying his latest report to a meeting of the 35-country board of governors of the UN's nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed ElBaradei declared that "Iran
Lonely Planet Six Degrees: Havana — Travel show explores Havana, Cuba from the viewpoint of the people living there. SBS, Friday, September 30, 7.30pm.
Sex 'n' Pop: It Ain't Necessarily So — Hits the gay dance floor and traces the history of
Rohan Pearce
On March 1, 1991, after the defeat of Iraq in the first Gulf War, US President George Bush senior told the American Legislative Exchange Council: "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all!" Since George Bush junior
The following is an abridged version of the address given to the 60th UN General Assembly on September 15 by Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's revolutionary socialist president.
This UN does not work. We have to say it. It is the truth... [T]he dream of an
Jac Taylor, Melbourne
On September 21, Dr Elspeth McInnes, convenor of the National Council of Single Mothers and their Children, criticised the Howard government's changes to its proposed "welfare-to-work" package as still failing for protect
Jim McIlroy
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed by Centrelink, the federal government's main social security agency, have voted at workplace meetings around the country to reject management's offer on a new industrial
South Australia
The sometimes out-of-control private security industry is being reined in a little in South Australia, with fingerprint and drug tests to be introduced for security personnel. There are about 150,000 private security guards in
Combatting depression
Iggy Kim (Write On, GLW #641) offers up Cuba's continued use of anti-depressants and electro-shock therapy (ECT) to bolster his argument that drugs, used in combination with community-based psychiatric methods, are the best
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