BY DR LYNETTE DUMBLE
In late July, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report entitled Killing you is a very easy thing for us, a 101-page documentation of the chief forms of abuse prevalent today in Kabul and the densely populated
549
On August 5, the day before Jesuit lawyer and human rights advocate Frank Brennan was due to leave for Nauru, his visa was cancelled by Nauru's acting-chief secretary. The reason given for the cancellation was that Father Brennan's request to
BY EVA CHENG
Bilateral trade conflicts between the world's two biggest economic blocs — the US and the European Union — are escalating, threatening to undermine their collective ability to screw the Third World, especially within the framework
BY JAMES CRAFTI
MELBOURNE — On July 8, the Sydney University Senate met in secret to vote to support the federal government's "reforms" to higher education. When rumours circulated that the La Trobe University Council was to do the same, members
TAFE fees outrage
I refer to the article in the August 4 Sydney Morning Herald which claims that the disadvantaged will be guaranteed free TAFE study.
Unfortunately, this is not yet the case. While students and teachers will be pleased if the
BY STEVE KRETZMANN& JIM VALLETTE
In early April, during the initial assault on Baghdad, soldiers set up forward bases named Camp Shell and Camp Exxon, until Pentagon PR realised that that did not look very good and ordered them renamed. Those
[The following statement was unanimously adopted by the Socialist Alliance's national executive on July 25.]
The Socialist Alliance national executive joins its voice with those calling for unity in the anti-war movement. As the Bush administration
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Earlier this year, clinical psychologist Zachary Steel released a report describing children's experience of detention as a "living nightmare". It found unprecedented rates of mental illness among young asylum seekers: among the 22
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
The United States and Australia are moving closer to restoring full military cooperation with Indonesia, including with the discredited Kopassus special operations unit of the Indonesian armed forces (TNI).
In July, the
BY PETA JOHNSTON
On August 6, long-term immigration detainee Stephen Khan was released from detention at the Perth Immigration Detention Centre on the order of Federal Court Justice Malcolm Lee. Sitting in the Federal Court in Perth, Lee made the
Pages
