BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG — On November 19, the African National Congress (ANC) government finally conceded that it must begin providing anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines to hundreds of thousands of people who are HIV-positive. Activists hope
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BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Conservation organisations have backed plans to ban fishing on around a third of the Great Barrier Reef as a major step forward. Legislation tabled in federal parliament on December 3 will create the largest network of
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon PapersBy Daniel EllsbergPenguin, 2003500 pages, $38(pb)
On the evening of October 1, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg left the Rand Corporation offices in California after a busy day. His
BY JESS MELVIN
"People are stopped for no reason, bashed for no reason, physically and spiritually abused. They target migrants and people from Third World countries", Hussein Farah from the Somali Youth Association and the Western Suburbs
BY RUPEN SAVOULIAN
Opposition supporters stormed Georgia's parliament on November 23 and took it over, forcing President Eduard Shevardnadze, who held the position since 1993, to flee. Tens of thousands of protesters outside demanded his
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — On December 2, as the morning sun sparkled from the river's quiet surface, more than a hundred people gathered at Gooniniup, the Nyungah women's sacred site, also known as the old Swan Brewery. We recalled the campaign
BY MAURICE FARRELL& RACHEL EVANS
According to a UNAIDS/World Health Organisation report "AIDS Epidemic Update 2003", released on November 25, an estimated 40 million people are now infected with HIV. Three million died last year from AIDS. The
BY DOUG LORIMER
"It is not Vietnam, and there is no way you can make the comparison", Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, the top US general in Iraq, snapped at a reporter during a November 11 Pentagon press briefing in Baghdad. The reporter had
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BY NICK EVERETT
On October 31, the 22-year-rule of Mahathir Mohammed ended, when he handed over Malaysia's prime ministership to his deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Mahathir's rule ended with controversy, when he remarked at the Organisation of
BY JASON MacLEOD
Abdul Teng is in his element. Teng is here to talk about his home, Gag Island in violence-ridden West Papua, the scene of a four-decade-long struggle for independence. The 56-square kilometre island is located 150km north-west of
December 10 marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Tasmania and will be celebrated at the state Parliament House with a commemorative photograph and get-together by a bunch of MPs. Local film-maker Karen Buczynski, together with
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