Rupen Savoulian The Israeli and US ruling elites are exchanging bitter recriminations over the failure of Israel's four-week mass bombing campaign to destroy Lebanon's Hezbollah-led resistance movement. The August 16 Tel Aviv Haaretz carried an
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On August 20, miners on strike at the Escondida copper mine rejected BHP Billiton's latest pay rise offer, which fell way short of the strikers' demands. The miners have been on strike since August 7 over pay, bonuses and working conditions. The
The conviction of Dr Suman Sood on August 23 for unlawfully procuring a miscarriage brings NSW's antiquated abortion laws into the spotlight. Sood was found by a jury to have supplied an abortion-inducing drug to a 20-year-old woman at 23 weeks of
Justin Tutty, Darwin On August 23, environmentalists conducted a site inspection of the Browns mining project at Batchelor. Spokesperson John Oakley said that Compass Resources' secrecy about its activities at the old Rum Jungle uranium lease had
MELBOURNE — On August 19, 200 people attended a Justice for Lebanon and Palestine rally organised by the Melbourne Palestine Solidarity Network. Speakers at the rally included Palestinian-Australian activist Nasser Mashani, Aber Chandab from the
Doug Lorimer "The insurgency has more public support and is demonstrably more capable in numbers of people active and in its ability to direct violence than at any point in time", an unnamed "senior" US defence department official, speaking "off the
Frances Evans, Melbourne "We're not a protest organisation, we're a law enforcement organisation. We're planning on shutting down the Japanese whaling industry", Peter Hammarstedt, coordinator of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), told a
Lisa Macdonald "In these bleak times of war, terror and hate-mongering, the sight of thousands of Muslim and Middle Eastern-background Australians marching side by side with non-Muslims against Israel's brutal attacks on the people of Lebanon and
Colin Mitchell, Melbourne About 60 people joined a protest ride on August 20 to Barwon prison, near Geelong, where 13 Muslim men, known as the "Melbourne 13", are being held. The men were arrested in highly sensationalised raids last November,
CANBERRA — Activists from the Canberra Region Anti-Nuclear Campaign made a submission to the Howard government's Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy Review, which closed on August 18. The CRANC submission criticised the narrow terms of
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