Jess Melvin, Sydney
The University of NSW Student Guild has launched a major attempt to ban students' freedom of speech by calling police onto campus to shut down campus bookstalls run by left-wing UNSW students.
Since campus started for the
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Hegemony or Survival: America's quest for global dominanceBy Noam ChomskyAllen & Unwin, 2003$24.95 (pb)
REVIEWED BY JOHN TOGNOLINI
I am lucky enough to have met Noam Chomsky when he was in Sydney, in 1995, when he was defending the East Timorese,
Rohan Pearce
"A whitewash" is how anti-war activists are describing the report of the parliamentary inquiry into intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD), released on March 1. The warmongers, predictably, greeted the report's
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Newtown parades for peace
SYDNEY — Fifty soaked but determined people took to Newtown's cafe strip on March 6 to publicise the March 20 global day of action against war. The "Parade for Peace" was organised by the Newtown Peace Group.
The
Bad rap
"Capitalism gets a bad rap these days. Executives are seen as greedy shysters who do anything to make a buck. Companies are perceived as amoral exploiters of the poor, and polluters of the environment." — Chicago Sun-Times, February 23.
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Abukeshek — a voice from Palestinian youth that is rarely heard. He will be speaking at the following public meetings:
Brisbane — Tuesday March 9, 7.30pm. Trades Hall, corner of Peel and Grey streets, South
Sue Bull, Melbourne
Thousands of Victorian teachers took to the streets of Melbourne on March 3, in protest at stalled negotiations with the state Labor government over their pay and conditions campaigns.
It was an historic day of unity as 12,000
Doug Lorimer
On February 19, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan endorsed of Washington's plan to install a non-elected Iraqi government at the end of June. Iraq's leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, said on February 27 that
The Liberal-National federal government spends about $43 million a day on the military — more than twice what it spends on higher education and research. It spends more on handouts to private schools than on universities, which it justifies by
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