BY ALISON DELLIT
If anybody still doubted that the corporate media is dominated by sexist, anti-democratic scandal-mongerers, the coverage of the Democrats' split has provided plenty of proof.
The "reporting" on the resignation of former
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REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
All About My FatherDirected by Even BenestadScreened at the 49th Sydney Film Festival in June
Even Benestad made documentary film about his father, but both had very different ideas about what the film would achieve.
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)
staff voted July 19 by more than 90% to reject a management draft industrial
agreement.
The draft included a pay rise of only 6.5% over two years (low by
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Alamdar Baktiyari and his uncle, Mahzer, were among a number of detainees caught up in disturbances inside the Woomera detention centre on July 28. Detainees told the August 1 Sydney Morning Herald that an Afghan man required
BY GARRY M. LEECH
NEW YORK — During the 1980s, the Reagan administration became mired in the Iran-contra scandal following revelations that it illegally sold weapons to Iran and used the proceeds to covertly arm and fund Nicaraguan "contra"
Pakistani teachers arrested
Some 200 teachers were arrested in Lahore on July 29. They were about to
protest against the Punjab provincial government's decision to privatise
schools. Hundreds of cops had been deployed since early
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE Students at campuses across the country are organising
referendums calling for their universities to be declared refugee safe
havens.
We want students to think about this question, said campus refugee
BY SIMON WOOD
WOOLGOOLGA It seems hardly a day goes by now without somebody, from ordinary people to the United Nations, criticising the Coalition government's prejudiced and inhumane mandatory detention policy.
At 9am on July 26,
Strict interpretation
You'll notice that I never said she should resign, Democrats Senator
Andrew Murray told a July 30 press conference, a day after explaining that
Natasha Stott Despoja's leadership of the party was an
BY EWAN SAUNDERS
BRISBANE — Around 250 students at the University of Queensland successfully blockaded the university's senate meeting on August 1, preventing a vote that would have seen course places sold to wealthy students with lower entry
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