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BY NICOLE HILDER WOLLONGONG — On August 22 it was announced that Sandon Point was named in the Australian Council of National Trusts' Endangered Places List 2002. ACNT chairperson Simon Molesworth said “the key threats to these 23 places
BY CLAUDIA QUINNELL Once again, higher education has come under attack, this time through federal education minister Brendan Nelson's "Higher Education at the Crossroads" review. The review claims to take stock of how far the higher education
Dinner raises $1500 PERTH — Around 150 people gathered at the State School Teachers Union hall to attend the a dinner to raise funds for Green Left Weekly on August 24. Greetings were heard from SSTU organiser Michelle White, Socialist Alliance
Abortion The August 21 passage through ACT parliament of legislation to decriminalise abortion is a welcome development. Its scope makes it a first in Australia. Not only does the law repeal sections 44-46 of the criminal code (which had made
BY EVA CHENG Until July 31, the latest official statistics reported that the United States last year suffered only one quarter of negative GDP growth. But on that day, revised figures — based on more comprehensive data — revealed that the
BY FARIDA IQBAL From October 4 to 11, anti-nuclear campaigners around the world will be marking Keep Space for Peace Week. The week, an initiative of the Global Network against Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, is an effort to stop the
BY PIP HINMAN In the early hours of August 26, activists from the We Are All Boat People group decorated statues around the city in barbed wire, Tampa sashes and black armbands. Her Majesty Queen Victoria at the Queen Victoria Building
BY ERIN CAROLAN SYDNEY — On August 26, more than 130 students and teachers wore black armbands to mark Tampa Day at Fort Street High School. Fortians for Refugees hoped to promote increased awareness of the inhumane nature of mandatory detention
BY NICK FREDMAN What should be the response of workers in the higher education sector towards the Israeli occupation of Palestine? This question has been posed over the last several months by a petition circulated by two Australian academics
Viet Nam VoicesAn exhibition of art, photos and videosQueensland Museum, South Bank, BrisbaneDeveloped and toured by the Casula Powerhouse Arts CentreUntil September 29 REVIEW BY JIM McILROY The Viet Nam Voices exhibition is deeply moving,
BY DAVID GOSLING YOGYAKARTA — Indonesian workers are braving police repression to oppose President Megawati Sukarnoputri's IMF-inspired draft labour laws. So far strikes and protest rallies across the country have succeeded in pushing back the
BY SIMON BUTLER It's now been a year since Pauline Hanson's advice to turn away boatloads of desperate refugees became Australian government policy. But the unjust treatment meted out to refugees has sparked a movement of anti-racist