Machine Gun Fellatio has become a household name after the band's second show at Melbourne University was cancelled by the Student Union, on the grounds that the show was sexist. The RMIT and Swinburne University of Technology student unions have
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." — Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995.
"M1 can be as big as it likes", someone recently said to me, "but isn't opposing
Due to a sub-editing error, the sentence in the article Refugee kept
eight months in solitary by Ben Collins (GLW #443) read: While the agreement
between the government and Australasian Correctional Management, which
runs the centre,
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Following the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Washington launched many unsuccessful attempts to overthrow the popular revolution that had triumphed just 140 kilometres(90 miles) from US shores. The most notorious attempt was at the Bay of
BY KIERAN PHILLIPS
DARWIN — Students at the Northern Territory University have many questions and complaints about catering on campus: the outlets are often shut, the food and beverages are very expensive and of low quality and there is no
BY EVA CHENG
News of what appear to be spontaneous rebellions by workers against attacks on their social rights and living standards resulting from the Chinese Communist Party bureaucracy's drive to restore capitalism continue to seep out of
SYDNEY — About 120 Palestinians and their supporters rallied at the Sydney Town Hall on April 7 as part of the International Day of Action for the Refugees' Right of Return. The rally heard from Susan Nasser about the trauma faced by the people in
BY KATHY LOWE
The first political prisoner to perish in the long-running hunger strike in Turkey's jails met his death on March 25. He was Cengiz Soydas, who died in an isolation cell in Turkey's Sincan prison after fasting for 133 days.
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"I will not walk away from my decision." — Former Australian Democrats leader Senator Meg Lees commenting on her decision to support the introduction of the GST, widely attributed as the reason for her