POEM BY JOHN TOMLINSON
Refugee, asylum seekerwho's the listener,who's the speaker? Are you ventriloquist or fakerwho's the giver,who's the taker? Compassion now, or racist pridewhich is decent,who has lied? Come, citizen or overlordwere children
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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the ScaffoldBy Geoffrey RobertsonVintage Books, 2006429 pages, $35 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"You shall be hung by the neck", declaimed the gleeful judge in 1660, "and being
Irene was born in 1931 in Portland. The deprivation and poverty Irene experienced during her early years did not prevent her from developing into a kind, caring and wonderful human. She never forgot those early years and all her life strived to make
A Fantastic Dad and His Romantic DaughterBy Mairi McKenzie378 pages, $30Phone (08) 9371 8521
REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY
The fantastic dad of this title, Thomas Wignall, was a leading member of the Communist Party in WA from the 1920s onwards. He was
PERTH — The Kalamunda Shire council, which covers some of the outer suburbs east of Perth, has written to Stuart Henry, Liberal MHR for the seat of Hasluck, to express its opposition to the location of any nuclear reactor within the shire. This
Kiraz Janicke, Geelong
More than 80 people, including young workers from the Gold Coast, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, joined local participants at Geelong Trades Hall on June 17 for the "Up Yours Howard" young workers' conference.
The conference
On June 15, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's flagship, Farley Mowat, managed to escape from Cape Town's harbour. The ship had been detained when it returned from Antarctic waters, where it had pursued the Japanese whaling fleet. The Sea
Andrew Hall, Canberra
Many refugee-rights advocates describe the Howard government's Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 as worse than the policy of mandatory detention introduced by the Hawke Labor government in the
Dirk van Dalen & Liam Mitchell
The retailer Spotlight has imposed Australian Workplace Agreements on staff, giving a $0.02 per hour wage rise in exchange for eliminating penalty rates, rest breaks, and overtime and holiday pay rates. The result is
Refugee activist Betty Dixon died on June 15, aged 76. She made numerous trips to Woomera and Baxter detention centres to visit asylum seekers, and frequently visited the Villawood detention centre in Sydney, three hours' drive from her home in
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