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  • Eyewitnesses to a revolution

    Barry Healy, Perth Venezuela is making great gains in health-care delivery, said local doctor Colin Hughes in an eyewitness account of his recent visit as part of an Australia-Venezuela solidarity brigade. At the public meeting in Darlington on

  • Bougainville Tent Embassy

    Bougainville Tent Embassy CANBERRA — Medicines donated by organisations, doctors and hospitals were delivered to the Bougainville Tent Embassy in front of Parliament House here on November 4. Alan Coe, representing the Victorian Aboriginal

  • Refugees 'so exhausted'

    This email was received by a refugee supporter who corresponds with an asylum seeker imprisoned on Nauru. It is a horrific example of the daily humiliation and mental torture the remaining 79 asylum seekers are subjected to. On September 28th

  • Troops out of Iraq!

    Pip Hinman Around the globe, anti-war activists are gearing up for the protest rallies to mark the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Across Australia, activists are doing the same, spurred on by the oil-for-food scandal, the new terror

  • News briefs #2

    #2 Candidates address WEL forum BRISBANE — On September 20, candidates from the ALP, the National Party, the Greens, the Democrats and the Socialist Alliance answered questions about their policies for women at a West End forum organised by

  • Candidates address Parramatta meeting

    Ruth Ratcliffe, Sydney As human beings we have the capacity to imagine an alternative future, one which is not based on deception, cruelty and injustice, Sister Susan Connelly from the Mary McKillop Institute for East Timorese Studies told a public

  • Loose Cannons

    Ready to snap "Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the [US] Army has become a 'thin green line' that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon. Andrew Krepinevich, a retired army officer

  • Redfern police &#145rammed&#146 boy

    Kerryn Williams, Sydney On September 24, Redfern police Aboriginal liaison officer Paul Wilkinson told the NSW parliamentary inquiry into Redfern that the young Aboriginal man who died after he was impaled on a fence in Waterloo on February 14, had

  • Australian government gives nod to US 'training facility'

    Kathy Newnam, Darwin Following discussions on June 5 between defence minister Robert Hill and US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the plan for a joint US-Australia military facility in northern Australia has been officially placed on the agenda

  • Save the Tassie forests!

    MELBOURNE — More than 10,000 people rallied on June 5 in a World Environment Day protest in defence of Tasmania's old-growth forests. In Brisbane, supporters of the Tasmanian forest campaign packed the Ithaca Hall at City Hall on June 4 for a

  • Death of a scaffolder

    John Tognolini, Sydney When 41-year-old scaffolder and father of three Paul Hughes fell eight stories to his death in Sydney's CBD on January 6, it put the spotlight not only on one of the building industry's most dangerous occupations but also

  • Who can afford to give back $8000 a year?

    Graham Matthews, Sydney Workers employed at the Esselte stationary warehouse in Sydney's south-west suburb of Minto have been "offered" individual contracts (AWAs) that would give them a pay rise of $47, but cut 18 allowances they currently enjoy,