Earthquake risk at Lucas Heights
BY ALEX MILNE
Work is continuing at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, despite
calls for the government to reconsider the project after an earthquake
fault line was discovered there.
The fault was
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Abortion still an issue in Tasmania
BY ANTHEA STUTTER
LAUNCESTON Despite the emergency sitting of the Tasmanian parliament
last December, ostensibly to pass legislation to solve the abortion access
crisis, women still don't have full
The Game
I must tell you of my felony.
It is, that at every moment, I was falling away
from beauty.
In a woman's face I was the eternal coldness,
in her hands the unmaturing child
growing heavier, disturbing her spine
year
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Howard government's Migration Legislation Amendment (Procedural
Fairness) Bill 2002 passed through the House of Representatives with the
support of the Labor Party on June 26 with very little publicity.
The new act
Socialist Alliance makes refugees an issue
in Tassie poll
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART The day after Premier Jim Bacon's June 21 calling of the
Tasmanian election, there was a 500-strong refugees' rights rally in Hobart
the largest
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — The remarkable ease with which the mainstream media obscures the reality of life for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has been starkly demonstrated by its coverage of US President George
Big Sister?
Australia's Big Brother television show is unfortunately not
unique. In the last three years, 36 different versions of the show have
been aired around the world but while 50% of the contestants are always
women,
BY IAN JAMIESON
PERTH — Unions in Western Australia have welcomed a package of industrial law reforms introduced by the Labor state government. Unions WA secretary Stephanie Mayman described Labor's bill as an important step forward but it "does
Global Circus
Roll up, roll up,
to the head of the queue.
Step up, step up,
come take a pew.
Gather round you clowns
applaud the acrobats
of global domination.
Cheer on the jugglers
Of world-wide manipulation.
Come to the
Write On letters to the editor
Refugees
Jim Faggotter (Write On GLW #491) says that if Australia's detention
centres were closed we would get millions of refugees.
Undoubtedly, if refugees were treated more humanely the number
PALESTINE: Operation 'Determined Path' to massacre
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The expression peace process has become increasingly meaningless.
As Israel's murderous Operation Determined Path continues, and White
House pronouncements lose any
Activists welcomed the G8 summit, held in Kananaskis, Canada,
June 26-28, with a string of anti-corporate protests. On June 26, some
4000 people took part in a three-hour snake march through Calgary, the
closest city to Kananaskis. The march
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