BY DAMIEN LAWSON
SYDNEY — With no media attention or public discussion, the federal Coalition government is using the Olympics to justify sweeping new powers which allow the military to suppress domestic unrest in Australia. Under the pretext of
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After months of delays, false starts and a performance to rival Christopher Skase's "Now I'm sick, now I'm not", former president Suharto is finally to stand trial for embezzlement of Indonesian state funds. On August 3, the 79-year-old Suharto was
UNITED STATES: Anti-corporate activists go cross-country
Fresh from protests against the Republican convention in Philadelphia, a coalition of pro-democracy groups set out cross-country on August 8 to share their message with unions and the rest of
Rod Quantock to host McDebate
BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE — Some of the world's best minds and sharpest wits will grapple with the crucial issue of our time here on August 25, when they debate "Whether McDonald's should run the World Bank".
BY DICK NICHOLS
Every time the death knell tolls for some factory or industry in the old industrial towns of the advanced industrial world, the workers involved are torn between three basically irreconcilable reactions. The first is to fight for
BY SIMON BUTLER
SYDNEY — Thirty students from the University of Technology, Sydney were arrested and charged on August 9 after occupying the acting vice-chancellor's office. They were protesting University Council's rejection of official UTS
Supporters mobilise for Tent Embassy
BY SIMON BUTLER
SYDNEY — Following reports that police were about to evict Aboriginal protesters from Victoria Park and close the Aboriginal Tent Embassy there, 150 supporters quickly gathered on August 11.
No solution can come from elite, meeting told
BY MATT LIVINGSTON
BRISBANE — The crisis in Indonesia cannot be solved by "shifting deck chairs on the Titanic", the national coordinator of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor
Hypocrisy, Republican style
SAN FRANCISCO — The four-day Republican Party convention finally came to an end on August 4 with the formal nomination of Texas Governor George W. ("Dubya") Bush, as the party's presidential candidate in November.
'We were our own censors'
The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to KosovoBy Phillip KnightlyPrion, 2000574pp., $35 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was in South Africa to report on
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