Fish farm protested
BRISBANE Around 500 people took to the water on August 14 in the biggest protest yet against plans to build a fish farm the size of four football fields in Moreton Bay. The protesters, representing 50 environment,
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War is peace
"I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace." George "The Crusader" Bush, August 7.
Having a bet each way
"The death tax is punitive on small business owners. It is very tough on farmers and ranchers.
[The following statement was issued on August 5 by the central committee
of the newly formed Workers Party of the Philippines.]
MANILA In a historic step forward for the Philippine left, more than
a hundred delegates from three
BY ZOE KENNY
MELBOURNE Hundreds of people have turned out to hear Afghan refugee Riz Wakil's presentation, "Is it safe to return to Afghanistan?", during his visit here on August 12-14. The federal government claims war-torn Afghanistan is
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BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH An August 8 High Court ruling on the Miriuwung and Gajerrong people's native title claim to their land in east Kimberley acknowledged that they retain limited traditional ownership rights.
The ruling is
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE To respond to the increasing activities of the misogynist Blackshirts, the Diversity and Safety Community Network was formed on August 7 at a meeting of 25 local residents and activists in Brunswick.
The
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to
Be So HatedBy Gore VidalThunder's MouthPress/Nation Books, 2002160 pp., $29.20 (bp)
REVIEWED BY ROLAND SHEPPARD
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war to whip
the citizenry into a
GLW's coverage of South Africa
Mazibuko Jara, the South African Communist Party's media spokesperson, states (Write On #504) that he is "rather surprised that Green Left Weekly seems to have taken a stance not to engage the SACP in a comradely and
BY FAROOQ TARIQ &
RAJA MEHBOOB HUSSAIN
LAHORE On August 8, the military government of President Pervez
Musharraf declared that its previously announced plan to privatise Pakistan's
educational institutions would not take place.