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Senate approves 'anti-terror' laws

BY ALISON DELLIT  On June 27, the Senate passed five of the six “anti-terror” bills, in effect introducing a new “terrorism” offence into Australian law, broadening treason offences to include any support for any group engaged in armed

Fo, Rame and theatre of intervention

Won't Pay!, 25 Monologues for a Woman"> Fo, Rame and theatre of intervention Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the RevolutionBy Joseph FarrellMethuen, 2001308 pp, $49.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Dario Fo and Franca Rame hit certain

'End this evil system of detention'

[The following remarks by Booker Prize winning author THOMAS KENEALLY were read out to the June 23 World Refugee Week rally in Sydney.] I am disappointed I cannot be there today to add my voice to yours. Like you, I consider the compulsory

Nauru despair documented

Nauru despair documented BY SARAH STEPHEN In early June, BBC reporter Sarah Macdonald and Australian refugee supporter Kate Durham secretly filmed the conditions under which of asylum seekers are being held on Nauru. The footage will be

UNITED STATES: Enron, WorldCom there's worse to come

UNITED STATES Enron, WorldCom — there's worse to come BY PETER BOYLE The timing was spectacular. On June 24, US President George Bush delivered a lecture to the Palestinian people about the corrupt and autocratic nature of the elected

Loose cannons

Loose Cannons Find those Binladenburgers! “Larry Ponemon, the CEO of Privacy Council, says that since September 11 he's been hired by at least one major supermarket chain to oversee the handing over to law enforcement agencies of the

WA Socialist Alliance seeks registration

WA Socialist Alliance seeks registration BY JANE ARMANASCO PERTH — After successful state registration campaigns in NSW and Tasmania, the Western Australia Socialist Alliance has begun the task of acquiring state electoral

Definitely not bubblegum pop

Definitely not bubblegum pop BY NICOLE HOYE  BRISBANE — With the empty lyrics of bubblegum pop music artists like Britney Spears and NSync hogging the mainstream music charts and airwaves, selling millions of albums worldwide,

Nurses reject pay offer

Nurses reject pay offer BY MARIA VOUKELATOS BRISBANE — The Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) has been in a month-long battle over wages and conditions in the Queensland Health Service. Nurses are demanding a 12% pay rise over the next two

Unwarranted praise

Unwarranted Praise Greens Senator Bob Brown, in a June 14 press release, congratulated federal Labor leader Simon Crean for having “taken a large step in moving Labor from the 'me-tooism' on asylum seekers it proffered during the [2001

News Briefs

News Briefs 'Youth for Refugees' hunger strike CANBERRA — Pro-refugee high school and campus students and young workers took part in a 24-hour solidarity hunger strike on June 28. The hunger strike, organised by Resistance, was in

SCOTLAND: Socialists ready to shock the establishment

SCOTLAND Socialists ready to shock the establishment BY FRANCIS CURRAN  With less than one year until the Scottish Parliament elections, due in May 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) faces its biggest challenge yet.