Rachel Evans, Sydney
On October 11, 200 people packed out Gleebooks for the launch of Bob Brown: Gentle Revolutionary by James Norman. With the Greens consolidating as the third force in Australian parliamentary politics, the book's timely release
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PERTH — The campaign by Western Australia's nurses to win wage parity with nurses in other states looks set to escalate in the lead-up to the state elections, following a government backflip.
In response to threats by the Australian Nurses
Elizabeth Schulte, Chicago
In an effort to emphasise the few differences between his campaign and President George Bush's, Senator John Kerry is arguing that Bush's invasion of Iraq was a mistake. Not because of the terrible human cost of the war,
Norm Dixon
"Like a whistle was blown to halt the activity, the entire metropolis suddenly went dry of vehicles from 7am... Lagos was shut down... Banks, markets, business houses and state and federal secretariats were under lock and key", read the
Lisa Macdonald
In early September, National Party leader and deputy prime minister John Anderson said of the Australian Greens: "This idea that they are some warm, nice midway house between the Coalition and the Labor Party overlooks the fact that
Alison Dellit
"In Victoria, Labor and the Democrats are responsible for the Family First candidate winning the last Senate seat instead of the Greens. Family First received preferences from both Labor and the Democrats, who have effectively
Alison Dellit
Once upon a time, this country had a telecommunications system that was, mostly, designed to put us in touch with each other. It didn't make megabucks, but that was okay, because we didn't need it to. We weren't bombarded with animals
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
At the height of the 18-day military offensive in Gaza, which has resulted in at least 136 Palestinians being killed, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weisglass, revealed that Israel's much-touted
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
Despite claiming his plan would protect forests and jobs, Prime Minister John Howard's October 9 election victory means that high-conservation-value forests in Tasmania will continue to be destroyed while timber industry
Leslie Feinberg, New York
"We have called on the anti-war and peace movements to join us on October 17 and they are coming by the tens of thousands", Million Worker March leader Clarence Thomas explains, "because the war in Iraq, just like the
Kate Durham gave the following speech to an August 27 Sydney meeting on refugees and detention. She has been an outspoken critic of the Pacific solution, under which asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia are housed in makeshift camps outside
Stuart Munckton& Sarah Stephen
The federal election result does not amount to an endorsement of the warmongering and racist polices of the Coalition.
The election was not a referendum on Australia's involvement in the unpopular and disastrous
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