By Jennifer Thompson
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November started the race toward Israel's May 29 elections in earnest. As the elections drew closer, the lines between Labour — the so-called party of peace, which enjoys strong backing
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SYDNEY — An international environmental film festival, the Paddy Pallin Wild Spaces, will be held in Newtown on June 1-2. Festival director Gary Caganoff says that the festival is designed to entertain, inform, reflect the concerns of communities,
By Dave Wright
SYDNEY — Since its election 14 months ago, the Carr government has continued the program of neo-liberal "reform" introduced by the previous Greiner/Fahey Liberal governments. The differences between the NSW Labor government and
Last week, thousands of students joined rallies and marches organised by the National Union of Students (NUS) and cross-campus committees as part of a national week of action to protest against the federal government's proposed tertiary education
By Nigel D'Souza
MELBOURNE — The election of the Howard government has had an inauspicious start for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. The recent attacks against Aboriginal organisations under the rubric of
By Dave Andrews
ROSEBERY — A massive, community-based battle has erupted over the threatened closure of the new hospital here on Tasmania's west coast. The state Department of Community and Health Services (DC&HS) announced on May 13 that it
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — A "wringout" for Fairlea Women's Prison at Fairfield on May 19 was a resounding demonstration of solidarity with the women imprisoned there and against the scheduled replacement of Fairlea by a private prison. The
My friend
"The vain eruditions of adulthood very often cast the light of scholarship so brightly that learning becomes little more than an academic spell ... that can only be broken by the innocent magic of a child's stated observations and
Defence of democracy
"In extreme situations some rules have to be broken." — Georgy Kuznetsov, dean of the television and radio department of Moscow State University's journalism faculty, justifying media distortion and if necessary
By Eva Cheng
Dozens of people in China have been arrested, some receiving long jail sentences, under laws which use a sweeping definition of "state secrets" as an excuse to stifle public scrutiny, according to the Amnesty International. Journalist
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