Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
Paramilitaries infiltrated across the border from Colombia have murdered 1700 people in the south-western region of Venezuela over the past two years, according to Luis Tascon, the May 5 daily Diario Vea
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Hope: A fifty-minute documentary about Amal BasryDirected by Steve Thomas and Sue BrooksIn production
PREVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Hope is a story of survival and determination, of the indomitable and forgiving spirit of Iraqi refugee Amal Basry, who
NEWCASTLE — On May 12, 80 residents rallied outside the government's planning department office to protest developer Hardie Holdings' proposal to construct a "village" on a 2300-hectare site between North Rothbury and Branxton, with 28,000
Doug Lorimer
Opposition by Russia and China appears to have stalled Washington's attempt to have the UN Security Council adopt a resolution requiring that Iran, under threat of punitive action, halt its production of nuclear fuel (low-enriched
James Crafti
On May 12 Sydney resident Phillip Reiss was shot with a "rubber" bullet in the back of the head while demonstrating in the Palestinian village of Bil'in. The misleadingly named "rubber bullet" — a metal cylinder covered by a
James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne
Martin Kingham, secretary of the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, urged the 150 people who attended a May 17 forum at Brunswick Town Hall to "join with us for the June 28
In the best electoral result for the English left in many years, Respect won 16 councillors in the May 4 local council elections. In the seats of Newham and Tower Hamlets — both poor, working-class, inner-city areas of London with substantial
Katie Cherrington, Wollongong
On May 19, 35 student anti-war activists from universities in Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong attended a cross-campus Students Against War conference hosted by the University of Wollongong Undergraduate
MELBOURNE — In the early hours of May 11, police attacked 150 Indigenous activists and their supporters as they removed embers from the "sacred flame" that had been burning in the Kings Domain park in central Melbourne since the Camp Sovereignty
Eloise Schnierer
The New Caledonian islands lie 1200 kilometres off the east coast of Australia. A French territory that is co-governed by a provincial New Caledonian parliament and the French government, New Caledonia (or Kanaky) is a biodiversity