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Kerry Smith Four peace activists who broke into the United States' Pine Gap spy base near Alice Springs last year will stand trial in the Northern Territory Supreme Court on October 3. The four, members of Christians Against All Terrorism, will
Magali and Brian McDuffie Opponents of a new bypass through Tugun, in northern NSW, say the state-federal supported development will endanger hundreds of species of plants and animals and ride roughshod over an important Aboriginal site, the
Gilda Chacon, head of the international section (Asia-Pacific Region) of the Cuban Federation of Workers (CTC) and a member of the Cuban parliament, is touring Australia at the invitation of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
Graham Matthews, Sydney On July 18, NSW police minister Carl Scully, accompanied by assistant police commissioner Graeme Morgan, held a media conference to announce the final results of strike force Enoggera — the police task force charged with
Mel Hughes, Sydney This year's Queer Collaborations (QC) conference, held at the University of New South Wales on July 3-7, was attended by 250 people, most of them university students. The conference — Australia's largest national forum for
Following a June 12 protest for women's rights in Tehran that was brutally attacked by police, Green Left Weekly spoke to an Iranian feminist, Roshan (not her real name), about the situation facing women in Iran and the battle for women's rights.
The Power of Community, How Cuba Survived Peak OilDVD and VHS, 53 minutes$US20, Available from <http://www.communitysolution.org> REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY "Peak oil", the notion that the world's supply of oil is entering a period of ever
Sue Bolton, Melbourne Back in March, federal finance minister Nick Minchin was sprung telling the right-wing HR Nicholls Society that the federal government had plans to introduce further changes to industrial relations laws after the next federal
Pip Hinman "The Australian government is not doing enough to rescue my wife and children", Rami Abdallah said on July 20 as he was about to leave Sydney for Beruit. "I am involved in my local community, I have given my all to Australia, yet the
Ruth Riordan, Istanbul Twenty-four women have been sentenced to 12 months' jail each after being found guilty of voicing "separatist propaganda". The women, aged between 40 and 75 years, are members of the Peace Mothers initiative, which has worked

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