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Fundraising appeal for SIEV X trial

The trial of alleged SIEV X people smuggler Khaleed Daoed is scheduled to commence in the Brisbane Supreme Court on May 17 and will run for at least three weeks. The boat dubbed the SIEV X sank in international waters off Indonesia on October 19,

BRAZIL: Lula rejects US 'aid' for AIDS

On May 3, Brazil's government rejected a $40 million grant from the US to fight AIDS, explaining that its conditions were "too severe". The grant was conditional on Brazil's government taking a "moral" stand opposing, among other things,

Resisting Howard's neoliberal agenda

Federal treasurer Peter Costello's 10th budget, to be revealed on May 10, will continue the federal Coalition government's neoliberal "reform" — pushing increased "user-pays" and the privatisation of Medicare and higher education. The dire state

SUDAN: US rolls out red carpet for Darfur's executioner

Norm Dixon Revelations of a covert rendezvous in Washington between top CIA officials and the head of Sudan's secret police have starkly exposed just how hollow and hypocritical are the US administration's expressions of concern for the plight of

Write on: Letters to the editor

Timor Sea Dave Clarke (Write On, GLW #625) correctly observes that "Australia is cheating East Timor out of its share of the oil in the Timor Sea", but then he raises the clearly rhetorical question: "Could it be that the Australian government

Children of the crocodile

Children of the Crocodile: The Australia-East Timor storyPassengers Gallery at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney9.30am-5pm Monday-Sunday until 2007Visit <http://www.anmm.gov.au> Children of the Crocodile is

ANZ targeted for war profiteering

ADELAIDE — Thirty-five people picketed ANZ on May 6 to highlight the bank's involvement in war profiteering in Iraq. The protesters vowed to return on the first Friday of every month to maintain pressure on ANZ and other Australian companies

Loose cannons

Dummies I "US marines who suffered the highest casualty rate of any unit in Iraq have revealed that they were so short of soldiers that they used cardboard dummies to fool insurgents into believing they faced more men ... The deception was revealed

CANADA: Anti-Japan protest

Between 500 and 700 people, most of Chinese descent, met at 10am on May 4 at the Chinese cultural center in Vancouver to march to the Japanese consulate to protest cover-ups and revisionism in Japanese textbooks. Protesters also demanded that Japan

INDONESIA: Troubled times for Yudhoyono

Jon Lamb Six months after his election, the cracks are well and truly appearing in the promises and policies of Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The half-hearted support of the Indonesian masses for his presidency is rapidly

A detention system out of control

Sarah Stephen Let's hope we can look back on 2005 as the beginning of the end of mandatory detention. The need for a renewed campaign to abolish it was fuelled by the breathtaking revelation on April 30 that Australian authorities deported an

PALESTINE: Protest attacked

Kim Bullimore More than 1200 Palestinians, Israelis and international activists peacefully demonstrated on April 28 in the West Bank village of Bili'in against the Israeli state's continued construction of the illegal Apartheid Wall. The wall