On May 21 Xanana Gusmao was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court after he upset the regime's script by refusing to make his defence plea in Indonesian and by then making a clear and strong rebuttal of the authority of the court
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By Michael Karadjis
"It is now a year since the first shells fell on Sarajevo, marking in an explosive manner the beginning of the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. At that time, very few thought that this war would expose Europe's impotence in
Pip Hinman
What about judges?
So far the republic "debate" has been very narrowly defined by Paul Keating's minimalist position, which proposes to change nothing but the titles of a few figureheads. It is part of an attempt to forge a
Disney Adventures — Ducktails
4.00 p.m. Channel 7, weekdays
Rated C, children's viewing
Reviewed (by chance) by Sean Malloy
In the 1950s, in an environment of McCarthyism, communists were accused of brainwashing. In the 1990s Disney
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — "It's not realistic to stick to the law", Sergei Yushenkov, an aide to President Boris Yeltsin, was quoted in the Moscow press recently. "The congress is now illegitimate."
More bluntly than Yeltsin,
Logging proposed in heritage area
By Kevin L'Huillier
HOBART — The Tasmanian Wilderness Society has uncovered a 1991 state government report which identifies most of the Great Western Tiers as worthy of addition to World Heritage areas
By Deb Sorensen
Kakadu National Park — "Along the Stuart Highway, left onto the Arnhem Highway, past the Humpty Doo turn-off and the Hard Croc Cafe. When you reach the Wildman River, you'll know you're almost there."
And so I set off
Gillespie speaks on crisis
By Dan Murphy
ADELAIDE — Growing community opposition to Australia's complicity in Papua New Guinea's war on Bougainville will be focused in a national day of action on July 25.
The depth of concern over
Worker activist murdered
JAKARTA — Marsinah, aged 25, a worker activist with PT Catur Putra Surya, a watch manufacturing company in the regency of Sidoarjo, East Java, was found dead on May 8. It is believed that her death was related to a
Australia, the second driest continent on earth, has the highest volume of stored water per person in the world; per capita consumption of water is also one of the world's highest. JANET PARKER looks at the problems of water in our most populous
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