Barry Healy
Possibly the most honest and forthright, if not bluntly enraged, voice of progressive Catholicism in Australia passed into silence on May 17 with the death of Ted Kennedy, long the priest of St Vincent's church in the Sydney inner-city
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Stuart Munckton
The 2005-06 federal budget, unveiled by Treasurer Peter Costello on May 10, included "across-the-board" tax cuts. However, while high-income earners received an average tax cut of $41.58 a week, most workers will receive only a
On May 4, Army judge Colonol James Pohl terminated the court-martial of Private Lynndie England, accused of torturing prisoners at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, saying her guilty plea was "not believable". Pohl explained that if, as England's
Below is an abridged version of a statement made to the US Senate permanent committee on investigations on May 17 by left-wing British MP George Galloway. The senate committee, head by Republican Norm Coleman, had accused the anti-war MP of receiving
BRISBANE — On May 7, 100 people attended a Middle Eastern dinner and benefit concert to raise funds for Union Aid Abroad/APHEDA projects to assist Palestinians adversely affected by the Israeli government's apartheid wall.
Singer-songwriter Phil
MELBOURNE — Up to 100 people picketed the Swanston Street branch of ANZ on May 12 to protest the bank's role in the corporate plunder of Iraq. The picket was organised by the Melbourne Stop the War Coalition. 'ANZ has a $6 million stake in a
Ray Fulcher
Most of people recoil at the use of torture, Most people would say that the perpetrators and their governments were guilty of crimes against humanity and should be severely punished. Not so according to two Australian academics who
Linda Seaborn, Hobart
Following the May 10 federal budget, anyone in receipt of a parenting payment, i.e., low-income people with children, will now have to work to support themselves after their youngest child turns six.
PM John Howard's theory
Andre Gunder Frank
On February 23, Andre Gunder Frank, renowned left-wing academic, writer and activist, passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. Once suggested as a possible Cuban economy minister by Che Guevara, Frank packed his 76 years'
Former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Craig Johnston will be released from jail on May 26. Johnston was imprisoned for nine months on charges relating to an industrial dispute in 2001.
Thousands of unionists and
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