News

  • Journalist vilified for telling truth on Iraq

    Pip Hinman Author and filmmaker John Martinkus, who was kidnapped in Baghdad by Iraqi resistance fighters on October 16, has been accused by foreign minister Alexander Downer of deliberately putting himself in danger, and of "giving comfort" to

  • Forum discusses Greens and the left

    Tony Iltis, Melbourne While "Is the left going green?" was the topic for a forum organised by the New International Bookshop on October 21, the discussion was more focused on whether the Greens were going left. Two of the panelists were Greens

  • Bob Brown gently 'revolutionises'

    Rachel Evans, Sydney On October 11, 200 people packed out Gleebooks for the launch of Bob Brown: Gentle Revolutionary by James Norman. With the Greens consolidating as the third force in Australian parliamentary politics, the book's timely release

  • Loose cannons

    Blind faith and ... "I'm not a politician and the decisions aren't mine to make, but I think oftentimes our commander in chief has a much broader view of things than your average Joe who is for or against the war." — US Marine chaplain Josh

  • Campaign to save South-East Asian studies

    Jess Melvin, Sydney The South-East Asian department at the University of Sydney will cease to exist in 2006 unless students and staff can stop its closure. Indonesian language, Thai language and South-East Asian history and politics subjects are

  • CDU management under fire

    Kathy Newnam, Darwin Postgraduate students at Charles Darwin University have declared their determination to continue to fight university management attempts to relocate 35 postgraduate research students to what they are calling "holding pens".

  • Justice for Joel: the fight continues

    Tim Vollmer October 15 marked the first anniversary of the death of Joel Exner, the 16-year-old who fell 15 metres to his death on his third day of work. Joel's death highlighted the need for tougher laws to bring an end to the hundreds of deaths

  • Judge slams Howard's Building Industry Taskforce

    Sue Bolton, Melbourne On October 12, a Federal Court judge ordered the Howard government's Building Industry Taskforce to stop accessing the personal banking details of members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) employed

  • Arundhati Roy to donate US$50,000 to Aborigines

    SYDNEY — In an interview printed in the October 14 Bulletin magazine, Indian writer and anti-globalisation campaigner Arundhati Roy, comparing Australia's Aborigines to India's untouchables, said she wanted to donate her $50,000 Sydney Peace Prize

  • Aceh's independence struggle

    Ruth Ratcliffe "Aceh — the struggle for independence", an exhibition of photos taken by freelance photographer William Nessen, toured to the small town of Toronto on Lake Macquarie on October 15-16. Nonie Hodgson from Action in Solidarity with

  • 'No toxic dump at Hattah'

    Margarita Windisch, Melbourne Up to 1800 people marched on Victorian state parliament on October 13 to protest the proposed toxic dump site at Hattah in north-western Victoria. A "toxic" truck and eight busloads of people left Mildura before dawn

  • National convergence for refugee rights

    Sarah Stephen Plans are underway for a national convergence on Canberra on November 16, the first sitting day of federal parliament since the October 9 federal election returned the Coalition to government. The convergence is a joint initiative