Stella Riethmuller, Brisbane
University of Queensland staff and students will meet on March 21 in response to proposed cuts to the arts faculty budget and plans to restructure the arts degree.
"The university is responding to changing student and
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Niko Leka, Newcastle
After nine months on strike, 25 specialist maintenance workers at Boeing at Williamtown returned to work on February 24. This followed a February 17 NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) finding that the dispute could be
norrie mAy-welby, Sydney
People imprisoned in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) are banned from talking to journalists, so what the immigration department and the private company GSL (Global Security Limited), which runs the centre,
David Spratt
On February 26, Andrew Buncombe and Patrick Cockburn reported in the British Independent: "Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed every month in Baghdad alone by death squads working from the Ministry of
Thousands of people protested in cities around Australia on the third anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. On March 17, 1000 people marched in Melbourne against war and racism, angered by news of the largest US air strikes since the
John Pilger
In 1993, I and four others travelled clandestinely across East Timor to gather evidence of the genocide committed by the Indonesian dictatorship. Such was the depth of silence about this tiny country that the only map I could find
On March 14, Nguyen Van An, chairperson of Vietnam's National Assembly, opened the new Vietnamese embassy in Caracas, with the aim of fostering closer relations between the countries. During Van An's visit, he met with various representatives of
You Have to be Careful in the Land of the FreeBy James KelmanPenguin Books, 2004437 pages
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
I've been a fan of James Kelman's books for nearly 20 years, but I have to admit that his last two works of fiction left me feeling
Vannessa Hearman
East Timor's 2006 Human Development Report prepared by the United Nations Development Program and the Timorese government shows the country is suffering from deep structural poverty. The report argues for "integrated rural
By the time you read this, we'll know the results of the March 18 Tasmanian state election. It's been an election dominated by efforts to keep the Greens out of government.
Several years ago, in an effort to exclude the Greens, the state Labor and
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