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BY PIP HINMAN Seven activists from the Acehnese Democratic Women's Organisation (ORPAD), including a high school student, were arrested while staging a peaceful protest on July 16 in the territory's capital Banda Aceh. They were demanding
Museworthy: Suffering, Related to 'Ownership' Privilege —someone else's suffering. What I should haverefused before I neededto give it away. Sing Your Heart Sing your heart Don't wait for newsfrom the outside world Ferris wheels
ZACHARY STEEL is a clinical psychiatrist who has been working with asylum seekers for 10 years and is documenting the impact of government policies on their mental health. Steel has spoken at numerous public forums, and on radio and television in
The following advice for Australians travelling to Afghanistan was issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on July 4. Safety and Security — Australians should defer all travel to Afghanistan until further notice. Australians in
The right to freedom of expression on the internet was dealt a blow on July 9 when a Paris judge ordered Greenpeace to stop using a parody of the Esso logo in its Stop Esso campaign in France, pending a full hearing. Oil giant ExxonMobil, which
BY CHRIS SLEE Public sector management is threatening the job security and flextime rights of workers in the Australian Taxation Office. Negotiations are underway for a new industrial agreement for the ATO. The Community and Public Sector Union
BY MARGARET ALLUM Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too)Directed by Alfonso CuaronStarring Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Maribel VerduScreened at the 49th Sydney Film Festival, June 7-21 Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too) was the film
BY ROHAN PEARCE Since the war on Afghanistan began, the US military has had a number of standard replies to accusations that it has massacred civilians: there were al Qaeda or Taliban leaders in the area; they fired first; it was a military
BY SARAH STEPHEN Twelve-year-old Montazar Baktiyari and 14-year-old Alamdar Baktiyari have put faces to the horrifying reality of children in detention. After asylum seekers have been dehumanised as "illegals" and "queue-jumpers" for so long, the
BY DAVID BACON SAN FRANCISCO — Bonita, the word for beautiful in Spanish, is not a bad description for the nearly flawless bananas available from fruit and vegetable markets across the United States. It is also the name printed on stickers
BY ANTHONY BENBOW PORT HEDLAND, WA — Despite intense police attention, on July 18 more than 100 protesters marched on the Port Hedland immigration detention centre and remained for an all-night protest vigil. For more than 12 hours,
BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — On July 22, several political parties organised a seminar to discuss the contemporary implications of the July 27, 1996, attack by pro-Suharto thugs on the headquarters of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI). During