Grief in Bali
The world today is full of grief. The wars, poverty, disease and cultural disruption wrought by imperial policies of plunder, conquest, humiliation and exploitation are producing an ocean of tears and agony.
How many times a day on
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BY JANE BECKMAN
NEWCASTLE — NSW Health and Research Employees Association (HREA) branches throughout the Hunter region have unanimously condemned the NSW Labor government's decision to privatise new facilities to be built at the Newcastle Mater
Syria: Neither Bread Nor FreedomBy Alan GeorgeZed Books, 2003
REVIEW BY CHRIS SLEE
Israel's government on October 5 launched a missile attack on Syria, the first strike into Syrian territory in 30 years. US President George Bush immediately
BY LEON PARISSI
SYDNEY — The fight to save 1000 NSW public service education support jobs in the schools and TAFE colleges is entering a critical phase. The state Labor government's deadline for filling the new organisational structures is early
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — On October 10, 125,000 homes in Western Australia lost electricity when a computer fault caused the Collie power station to shut down for two-and-a-half hours. This followed widespread blackouts in the south-west area of
BY JOHN PILGER
Australian novelist Richard Flanagan was recently asked by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to read a favourite piece of fiction on national radio and explain his reasons for the choice.
"I was unsure what fiction to
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — In a referendum that coincided with the election for California's governor, voters rejected Proposition 54 — the "Racial Privacy Initiative" — by an almost two-to-one margin. Drafted and aggressively promoted by
BY TRISH REIMERS
In January 2001, US President George Bush reinstated the "global gag" rule on international family planning assistance that the US administration of Ronald Reagan had announced at the UN-sponsored Second International Conference on
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Since the end of July, 24-year-old Palestinian asylum seeker Aladdin Sisalem has been the only prisoner in the Australian government's Lombrum detention centre on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea. He has very little human contact,
BY PIP HINMAN
Despite the federal government's attempts to restrict the protests against US President George Bush, organisers of the Canberra rally on October 23 are confident it will be huge. Buses from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and towns across
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