Queensland band Future Native is flying high after the successful launch
of its debut single Your Backyard. A rousing rendition of its reconciliation
song Kakadu is also included.
The purpose of Your Backyard, says Future Native's
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BY RAHUL MAHAJAN
Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat stunned the world yesterday
by demanding that the United States hold democratic elections for a new
chief executive before it attempts to continue in its role as broker between
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
By Helen Caldicott
Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2002
320 pages, $30 (pb)
Although the risk of India and Pakistan launching a nuclear war
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Secret Ballot
Written and directed by Babak Payami
Starring Nassim Abdi
and Cyrus Ab
Distributed by Celluloid Dreams (< info@celluloid-dreams.com>)
Screened at the
49th Sydney Film Festival
BY CHRIS ATKINSON
DARWIN NT University's international students are the latest victims of the government and corporate media's racist scaremongering campaign. The pass grade on an English language subject compulsory for international students
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The information available from the hunger strikers in Woomera detention centre, whose protest passed the two-week mark on July 7, is heart-rending. The July 5 Canberra Times spoke by telephone to Ramzi, who said "We are very weak
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
HOBART On July 2, the Tasmanian branches of the Socialist Alliance called for the nationalisation of the insurance industry to solve the insurance crisis.
The announcement was a response to the July 1 suspension of
BY FRANCES SHEEHAN
SYDNEY Fed up with being asked to perform miracles on the smell of an oily rag, staff at the Department of Community Services (DOCS) have taken industrial action to secure the extra staff and resources needed to protect
BY KAREN FLETCHER
OTTOWA More than 5000 people braved flooding rain to take the
Canadian capital, Ottowa, behind the banner Open the Borders: No-one is
Illegal on June 27, the final day of the G8 leaders' summit.
Despite grave
BY SHANE BENTLEY
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which covers 10,500 waterfront workers (known as longshoremen) on the US west coast, is headed for a showdown with the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) after the ILWU's
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