Rank and file soldiers of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force rebelled on March 23, giving PNG Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta until noon on March 26 to repudiate a cabinet decision to sack more than half of all PNGDF personnel.
The soldiers also
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BY PIP HINMAN
The Indonesian military is stepping up its war against the Acehnese people. Jakarta has declared a "limited military operation" to "rid" Aceh of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The Indonesian government has branded GAM a "separatist"
BY SARAH STEPHEN
PERTH Ali Abu Al Chabab, a 22-year-old Palestinian refugee from
Lebanon, will fly back to Beirut on April 4 after his three-year fight
for refugee status in Australia was unsuccessful. Chabab's partner Ana
Kailis will
BY DAVID BACON
RIO BRAVO, TAMAULIPAS — Advocates of the North American Free Trade Agreement promised that free trade would bring a new era of respect for workers rights in all three countries — the United States, Canada and Mexico. Especially
BY SEAN HEALY
Anti-globalisation protesters demonstrated in their thousands on March 17 in the southern Italian city of Naples against the Global Forum, a meeting of government officials and representatives of the largest information technology
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The thirst for information, discussion and debate about issues facing the world's people and ecology in the era of neo-liberal globalisation was strongly evident at a "Fighting for the Future" conference held in Sydney
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — The large turnout of 230 people for a March 17 dinner and public meeting here on issue "Free Aceh, Referendum now!" is an indication of growing interest in the struggle in Aceh among the Australian public.
The event was
The article on the Guerrilla Girls in the last issue of Green Left Weekly mistakenly stated that Guerrilla Girls' spokesperson "Frida Kahlo" had been interviewed while in Sydney. In fact, Kahlo was in New York. She spoke to Green Left Weekly's Zanny
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Royal Air Force pilots have protested for the first time about their role in the bombing of Iraq. Pilots patrolling the so-called no-fly zone in the north of the country have spoken angrily about how they have been ordered
The Laramie ProjectBy Moises KaufmanBelvoir Street Theatre, SydneyUntil April 15
REVIEW BY MARK STOYICH
In 1998, near the town of Laramie in the US state of Wyoming, two young men tortured a young gay man, Matt Shepard, and left him for dead. The
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
PERTH — Organisers of the M1 blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange here have added an end-of-day march to state parliament house to their plans. The new Labor state government of Geoff Gallop will be sworn in on that day.
A former member of the Labour Party's national executive committee, Liz Davies, has announced her resignation from the Labour Party after two decades of membership, and declared her support for the Socialist Alliance and other left candidates in the
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