Ron Guy
A wall can take many forms. It can be the 2400 kilometres of earth — and estimated three million landmines — that separate the Western Saharan people from their homeland. Or it can be a wall of silence.
Recently, I joined a delegation
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Dale McKinley
On June 3 in the Protea Magistrate's Court in Soweto, two Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) activists from the community of Phiri — Tshepo Mkwanazi and Thabo Madisane — were convicted of "intimidation" and given R10,000 fines each,
Paul Oboohov, Canberra
The ACT Labor government, with the support of the Liberal MLAs, rammed a bill through the ACT Legislative Assembly on May 25 to make the Gungahlin Drive extension immune from planning and environmental legislation. The
Alison Dellit
Colombian oil workers have returned to work after a victorious 37-day strike against the privatisation of the state-run oil company Ecopetrol.
Colombia's government has been progressively privatising Ecopetrol through a restructure
John Pilger
Piers Morgan, the editor of the Daily Mirror, Britain's most famous mass-circulation newspaper, was sacked on May 14 because he ran the only English-language popular paper to expose the "war on terror" as a fraud and the invasion of
Steps for the Future: A Miner's Tale — From seven different countries in southern Africa comes this unique collection of films which deal with the ever-present danger and tragedy of HIV/AIDS. SBS, Tuesday, June 15, 1.25am.
Cutting Edge: The
During the past 20 years, our life at work has become more stressful, unsafe and unrewarding. Some of us are taking home more money, but often the price is double shifts, enforced overtime and less time for family and leisure. Others are working two
Steven Katsineris
The US wants to upgrade its half-century intelligence presence on Cyprus into a fully fledged army base when the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides agree on reunification, according to a report by Iason Athanasiadis in the March 6
Doug Lorimer
The selection of Iyad Allawi as prime minister of the Iraqi "interim government" is a clear demonstration that Washington has no intention of relinquishing its control over Iraq on June 30.
Allawi was selected as Iraq's new PM on May
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Teachers endorse further action
SYDNEY — On June 2, 98% of teachers at Sky Channel-linked meetings across NSW voted in favour of further industrial action if the state government fails to fund a salaries increase from outside the existing
Norm Dixon
Hollywood's global warming apocalypse flick, The Day After Tomorrow, has focused attention on how the melting of polar ice, the Arctic tundra and the world's glaciers can trigger abrupt climate change. There is now overwhelming evidence
Dianne Hiles, Sydney
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) undertook an inquiry during 2002 into children in immigration detention.
On May 13, the report, "A Last Resort?", and its recommendations were tabled, very quietly, in
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