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In his article "Who really won the second world war?" (GLW, May 24), Sean Healy fails to mention the Munich agreement of 1938 which gave Hitler the green light to take over Czechoslovakia
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"Tougher punishment for serious and juvenile crime will not solve the problem of crime in our community", said Professor Ross Homel at the Coalition for Crime Prevention's campaign launch in Brisbane on May 18. Homel, from
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Racism and the mediaIn 1984, the right-wing historian Geoffrey Blainey first argued that Asian immigration should be cut because Asians compete with "Australians" for jobs, education and scarce resources, and this
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On the box Women's World Cup Soccer — SBS will present comprehensive coverage of the women's soccer world cup over the coming weeks: China-Australia match, Friday, June 9, 5.05pm; USA-Australia, Sunday, June 11, 12.30pm; quarter-finals,
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April 30 was the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam. The war has been the subject of much recent media coverage, especially following Robert McNamara's attempt at rewriting history. One view of the war was
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News briefs CANBERRA — Another victim has fallen prey to the inadequacies of the ACT's health system. A young Aboriginal woman died while in the care of a major hospital in what are described by community representatives as "highly unusual
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Straight talk or hot air? The University of New England issued new guidelines on May 23 which encourage students and staff to avoid the use, orally or in writing, of terms which are sexist, racist or offensive to people with disabilities.
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Nostradamus' Media WatchBased on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across
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Immigration has long been tied to economic expediency. In days gone by, plane loads of migrants have been diverted from their destinations to ensure that industrial centres were supplied with workers. Consequently the NSW
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Looking out: If children could vote"First World privilege and Third World deprivation and rage are struggling to coexist not only in our nation's capital but all over an America that has the capacity but not the
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The only thing missing was the confession of the criminal. And now it's here. The German magazine Stern has published extracts of the unedited Memoirs of Captain Waldemar Pabst, the man who organised the arrest and murder of
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The ALP has done it again. Invoking those old discredited Malthusian arguments which blame population growth for almost every social and environmental ill, newly elected NSW Premier Bob Carr has launched an attack on
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Since the opening of the parallel north-south runway at Sydney airport in November, independent reports have emerged highlighting the adverse health effects suffered by residents living under the new flight paths. DEAF — Doctors and Allied Health
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Since the last US election, the political left has been sent reeling. We have been told that this victory spells a new revolution, a revolution for the right. Interestingly, a Rand Corporation researcher, David Ronfeldt, argues
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Action updates BRISBANE — An angry group of chanting, sign-toting protesters opposed to the planned South Coast Motorway taunted environment minister Molly Robson and her ALP supporters as she launched her re-election campaign in Springwood on
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Selling the air: the trade in 'pollution rights' A carbon tax and similar market-based "solutions" to environmental problems have been canvassed in Australia by governments and by some environmental organisations. In the United States, reliance
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Green Left Weekly soccer championshipPERTH — May 28 was the inauguration of the Green Left Weekly Soccer Championship at Perth College oval. It proved a successful fundraising event for GLW, and provided exercise and
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Cuban speaks on life under the US blockadeBRISBANE — Basilio Gutierrez, head of the Oceania and Asia section of ICAP (the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples), told a public meeting at the Trades and Labor
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Win for Maritime UnionFREMANTLE — The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) won a victory on June 2 against the Western Australian government and anti-union contractor Len Buckeridge, with the Stateships vessel, the Sina, was
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Victorian health workers strikeMELBOURNE — Two thousand members and supporters of the Health Services Union of Australia (HSUA) walked off the job on June 1 to attend a lively stop-work meeting and rally in the city centre.
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Unionists, environmentalists form coalitionOn June 5, World Environment Day, the Building Division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Conservation Council of SA (CCSA) formalised links
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On June 3, around 1500 people across Australia marked World Environment Day by taking to the streets demanding an end to environmental destruction. From Sydney, Sandra Wallace reports that 300 people joined a march
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Princes Park — Optus versus residentsMELBOURNE — Princes Park, home to Carlton Football Club and a major park for local residents, has become a battleground between corporate supporters and community opponents of
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Drought aid misses targetLast week the federal government announced an extra $40.3 million in drought aid to some areas that did not receive recent rainfalls. But the package has only confused farmers, as its arbitrary
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The arrival of 18 East Timorese boat people in Darwin on May 30 has created a major headache for the ALP federal government. Several thousand East Timorese have fled to Australia by various means since the brutal invasion
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Women teachers' union conferencePERTH — Approximately 65 women — teachers, unionists, parents and interested individuals — attended the State School Teachers Union (SSTU) women's conference on May 27 to discuss
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SYDNEY — The silence on the forest accord — the centrepiece of the NSW Labor Party's election strategy — is deafening. In over two months, hardly a word has been said, and no action taken, on the uneasy compromise, stitched
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SA teachers protest budget cutsADELAIDE — Seven thousand teachers and supporters rallied on May 30 to protest against expected cuts to the state education budget. The half-day stoppage, organised by the South Australian
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WOLLONGONG — Two of the Illawarra's most polluting industries, BHP and the Corrimal Coke Works, are either evading repercussions or receiving official sanction for their output into the atmosphere. The Environment
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Loose cannons Should have told them sooner "This kind of behaviour is just totally unacceptable." — Carol Bellamy, the new executive director of UNICEF, on the organisation's Kenya office, which lost US$10 million through corruption and
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Goss condemned on jailing moveBRISBANE — "The Goss Labor government wants to throw more young people behind bars as a short cut to electoral victory in the coming state election", Zanny Begg, Democratic Socialist candidate
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Across the country, Resistance activists are preparing to attend its 24th national conference. The conference is being held in Melbourne from July 8-10 and is the largest socialist youth gathering held annually in Australia. It is a focus for
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Forum discusses future of CambodiaBRISBANE — Aid to Cambodia and solidarity with its people are now crucial if the brutal Khmer Rouge forces are to be defeated, Dr Helen Jarvis told a public forum at the Resistance Centre
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Unions rethink ANL privatisationThe Maritime Union's (MUA) favoured bidder for the publicly owned shipping company, the Australian National Line (ANL), withdrew its bid on May 22, sparking a rethink on union agreement
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Greens attack inaction on West Papua killings WA Greens Senator Dee Margetts has criticised the federal government's lack of response to the alleged killings of 37 villagers by Indonesian troops at the Freeport Mine in West Papua. "The
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Campaign to stop the Scarborough tunnelWOLLONGONG — Fifty people at a meeting called by the Wombara Preservation Group (WPG) in Scarborough on May 28 decided to continue the struggle to stop the NSW State Rail Authority
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Bosnia: the West has dirty hands Western media outrage over hostage-taking of UN "peacekeeping" forces in Bosnia and Hercegovina by Radovan Karadzic's Bosnian Serb army is appallingly selective. The Bosnian Serb army has maintained whole cities
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Threat to Indonesian dissident in AustraliaOn June 1 police in central Java issued the third summons for Indonesian dissident academic Dr George Aditjondro. Police authorities also stated that efforts would be made to extradite
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During May, the Chinese government threw at least 24 dissidents into jail and detained another 41 in a wave of arrests that followed three petitions by activists and leading intellectuals. The petitions called for the release of
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge has signed a death warrant for Mumia Abu-Jamal and set August 17 at 10pm for the execution of this former Black Panther Party spokesperson and award-winning journalist. Human rights groups, labour unions, and
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For the first time in Israeli history, the Arab parties in the Israeli Knesset have taken an independent initiative which forced (or allowed) the Rabin government to back down on immediate plans to confiscate 53 hectares of Arab land in East
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MELBOURNE — Simon de Faux, a Victorian nurse sent to East Timor as a volunteer for the Catholic Church, was warned by the Australian government not to go public with his first-hand experiences of human rights abuses in East
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Nobody today questions the absolute need for a peaceful settlement of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. There is, however, a growing awareness that the current peace process fails to meet the needs of the
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Prasetyadi Pancaputra, 25, a student from the University of Airlangga in Surabaya, went on a hunger strike in Jakarta, inside the foyer of the national parliament, between May 18 and June 2. He was demanding that the government
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Bikini people reject N-waste plans On May 16 the Bikini people of the Marshall Islands rejected a proposal to store nuclear waste on one of their islands contaminated by US nuclear testing in the 1950s. After two days of intense discussion
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MOSCOW — Alexander Lukashenko was elected president of Belarus — a republic of 10 million people on Russia's western border — by a big majority last July. He ran as an independent waging a classic "anti-politician"
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HAVANA, May Day — Drag queens danced at the head of the crowd filing past the podium where Raul Castro and other members of the Cuban government and trade unions stood. The crowd cheered; the Coro Gigante de la
Culture
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Ecological thoughts at bedtime The Story of Rosy Dock By Jeannie Baker A Mark Macleod Book, Random House. $19.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Reading rewards us all. And reading to others — especially if they're little — cuts both ways.
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Anzac Day By Karl-Erik Paasonen I've seen the diggers marching under flapping flags Flanked by police on repression-trained nags And when I think of what it means my jaw just sags And I want to march on Anzac Day Cos I've done
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The Tempest By William Shakespeare Directed by Neil Armfield Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, until July 2 Reviewed by Helen Jarvis Neil Armfield's production of The Tempest launches the new Company B series at Belvoir Street, part of its
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The Brisbane Home Front, 1939-1945 Exhibition, Brisbane City Hall Seven days per week until August 20 Reviewed by Dave Riley After a life in the shadow of my parents' memories of "the War" (as though there have been no others since), the
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The 44th Melbourne International Film Festival begins on June 8, screening more than 200 films from 28 countries. The centenary of cinema will be a theme of the festival, which will begin with a restored print and newly
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Latcho Drom (Safe Journey) Directed by Tony Gatlif With Rom musicians of India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, France and Spain Lumiere Cinema, Melbourne Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey About 1000 years ago a Sanskrit-speaking tribe, for
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Nice effort, but why? People: Hard Hitting Women SBS TV Friday, June 9, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide) "People enjoy seeing the excitement of a fight" in any sport, claim the organisers of the first women's British boxing championships. Those who
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Walking freeSentenced to jail my freedom lost just another thing taken from the Koori generation They don't care or understand all i want is our land Long bay jail on my tribal ground i walk on her everyday
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Critical Realism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Roy Bhaskar By Andrew Collier Verso, 1994 Plato Etc: The Problems of Philosophy and their Resolution By Roy Bhaskar Verso, 1994 Reviewed by Neville Spencer The philosophical
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The Cutting Edge: Hostage of Time SBS, Tuesday, June 20, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide) Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson This documentary, made in Lebanon in 1994, traces the experience of a young doctor, Leila, who returns with her eight-month-old son to
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HEMP (Help End Marijuana Prohibition) has reprinted the classic The Emperor Wears No Clothes and has added an Australian supplement, Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy in Australia.