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Write on: Letters to the editor

Adoption I have spent a lot of time with adoptees and am familiar with their rite of passage in regard to finding their biological parents. Many adoptees project a lot of identifiers onto their blood relatives — wishes and hopes in regard to

On the Box

Blaktrax: Ursula Yovich — Singer, songwriter and actor Ursula Yovich takes us to Darwin and Arnhem Land, where she learns more about her mother's culture and language. SBS, Saturday, March 5, 5.30pm. From the Other Side — The INS, using cutting

Victorian unions call mass delegates' meeting

Sue Bolton, Melbourne At a meeting of 150 unionists on February 24, Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) officials announced that they were calling a mass delegates' meeting for March 23. They anticipate an attendance of 2500 delegates. The meeting

UNITED STATES: Pollution agencies threatened

On February 18, a US senate committee demanded that the peak body representing state pollution monitoring agencies, and that that represented local pollution monitoring agencies, hand over their financial records. The two peak bodies had given a

UNITED STATES: Mother told 'learn English' or lose custody

A young Mexican immigrant reported to the Department of Children's Services for not immunizing her toddler was ordered by a Tennessee judge to learn English, and to use birth control, in January. In October, the judge, Barry Tatum, told another

Justice for East Timor

The following open letter regarding the Timor Sea oil dispute was initiated by the Timor Sea Justice Campaign on February 23 and is intended to respond to the next round of negotiations between East Timor and Australia on March 7-9 in Canberra. We,

Open letter to Israel's president

The following open letter, signed by more than 30 Jewish Australians, will be delivered to Israeli President Katsav when he visits Australia in early March. We are Jewish Australians who feel great concern for Israel, and welcome the recent

War profiteers targeted

Kiraz Janicke, Sydney As the warmongering federal Coalition government gears up for a new round of neoliberal attacks on universities and attempts to politically silence students through its anti-student union legislation, a small but significant

Loose cannons

Skilled operator "He was the ambassador in Honduras during the contra war [against Nicaragua]. So he clearly knows how to deal with clandestine operations. That was a pretty clandestine one for several years. And he didn't end up in jail, which is

Parliament bans poor protesters

Alex Bainbridge, Hobart Until recently, protest organisers could book the Tasmanian Parliament Lawns for a rally with a phone call to check they were free, and a follow-up confirmation letter. However, when Kamala Emanuel from the Peace Coalition

PALESTINE: 4.5 months for killing a Palestinian

On February 22, an Israeli court handed down one of the most serious punishments to an Israeli soldier for illegally killing a Palestinian — four-and-a-half months in prison. On June 8, 2003, an Israeli soldier at a Jenin checkpoint spotted a

IRAQ: Is there a threat of civil war?

Doug Lorimer A series of bombings outside mosques in and around Baghdad during the week prior to and on the day of the festival of Ashoura, the holiest day of the Shia year, has been seized upon by the US press to promote the idea that only the