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“Don't you realize that I could have killed you ten times by now — your monkey boy bodyguards notwithstanding...” — anonymous. The hate-filled words heading this essay are from a bullying letter sent to an African-American student leader at
BY NOREEN NAVIN SYDNEY — Community rallies and protests have resulted in the postponement of the NSW Labor government's plan to close and "restructure" several Sydney schools until 2003. However, public outrage has not prevented education
BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — Sydney has a new indigenous radio station — Koori Radio 93.7FM. After six years of campaigning by the Gadigal Information Service, the Australian Broadcasting Authority finally granted a full-time community radio
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON War Criminals Welcome: Australia, A Sanctuary for War Criminals since 1945By Mark AaronsBlack Inc, 2001649 pp, $34.95 (pb) When justice minister Amanda Vanstone said that the alleged Latvian war criminal Konrads Kalejs was
BY SHANE HOPKINSON Tandem Thrust 2001 is the name of the joint US/Australia military exercise conducted during May in Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area, north of Rockhampton. Some 28,000 US, Australian and Canadian troops were involved and it
BY DICK NICHOLS  It was good to see two letters in last week's Green Left Weekly question whether the Socialist Alliance has a future. Paul Petit's and Lev Lafayette's doubts about the project invite us all to think about the
In the Blue HouseBy Meaghan DelahuntBloomsbury, 2001$35 (hb) REVIEW BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON There are few historical figures on the left who provoke such controversy, inspiration and opposition as that of the Russian revolutionary leader, Leon
BY RENFREY CLARKE Mention electricity supplies to a South Australian, and the answer is unlikely to be polite. As well as summer blackouts, there are pool prices that doubled during 2000 in the now-privatised state grid, and the prospect of huge
Mothers' Day this year, again, was a bit of a horror. According to the commercialised tradition, it's a day when we are supposed to buy appliances, lingerie or flowers for mums who're overworked, underpaid and unrecognised. Particularly revolting
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS & CHRIS SLEE  MELBOURNE — “Growing up in this area, I understand that working families are doing it tough. Too many people are worried about losing their jobs or about getting by with casual work”, said Josephine

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