Kamala Emanuel & Anthea Stutter, Hobart
Tasmanian Aborigines and their supporters are campaigning in favour of the Aboriginal Lands Act 2004, due before state parliament in November. The bill, introduced by the government, will hand back three Bass
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In this article, which first appeared in the November 9 Sydney Morning Herald, former diplomat Tony Kevin called on Australians to oppose what is happening in Fallujah.
We need to be clear on what is happening in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, about
Damien Lawson
John Howard was killed in Iraq two months ago. A 26-year old staff sergeant in the marines, he died when his helicopter crashed in Al-Anbar province in August. The youngest of three brothers from Virginia, he joined the marines in
Rohan Pearce
Many have spent their time since the November 2 US presidential election bemoaning the "stupidity" of US people for "re"-electing President George Bush, instead of voting for John Kerry, the alternative pro-war candidate favoured by
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
The immigration department must have changed its mind at the last moment, because Sereana Naikelekele wasn't on the flight from Sydney that arrived in Fiji at 6.10pm on November 6, where Fijian police and airport officials
Rob Sutherland, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union member working on the Spencer Street station site in Melbourne, explains why he supports jailed unionist Craig Johnston.
Around 1996 I had a car accident on the way to work. I ended up in
Share of federal funding to public schools went from 73.7% in 1964-65, to 33.3% in 2005-06. During the same period, the share of federal funding to private schools went from 26.3% to 66.7%.
Direct federal funding to private schools was $2.7 million
John Percy, Sydney
A major diplomatic incident could be triggered by a diehard right-wing Vietnamese group in Sydney, with the naive complicity of the Fairfield City Council.
A local Vietnamese paper claims that the council has officially
Federico Fuentes
Antonio Peredo Leigue, a key leader of the Movement to Socialism in Bolivia wrote in an article published on argenpress.info on November 3, "In just one day, Sunday October 31, four elections in as many countries across Latin
Michael Shaik
Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla-turned-statesman, granted the Nobel Peace Prize before being condemned by the Israeli and US governments as a terrorist and obstacle to peace, died of a blood disease in a Paris hospital on November 11,