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Paintings of the Myall Creek massacre

SYDNEY — This exhibition of Chris Wyatt's paintings focused on the massacre of Aborigines at Myall Creek in NSW in 1838 is the artist's "contribution to the reconciliation debate and to reaching a clearer understanding of the unacceptable situation

One Nation MP sets up front parties

BY SUE BOLAND SYDNEY — One Nation NSW upper house member David Oldfield and One Nation's former national director David Ettridge (no longer a One Nation member) have given the NSW Labor and federal Coalition governments an excuse to place further

Remanded Iraqis denied rights

BY SIMON BUTLER & BRONWEN BEECHEY Ten Iraqi asylum seekers, charged with inciting the desperate riots at the Woomera detention centre in August, are now being systematically denied even their most basic rights as prisoners, according to lawyers

S11: 'We made it work by all sticking together'

The S11 protests against the World Economic Forum were a triumph for the Australian left, writes Susan Price. But it was a tough job to put them together and took enormous efforts of many different people from many different backgrounds.

Government joins churches to attack homosexuals

BY SIMON BUTLER Federal employment minister Tony Abbott has come to the defence of Centacare, the Catholic Church's government-funded employment agency, arguing that it should be able to sack employees it discovers are homosexuals. Abbott's

WEF threat to leave caused baton charge

BY SUSAN PRICE MELBOURNE — World Economic Forum officials threatened to "pack up and go home" at the end of the summit's first day on September 11 if police could not ensure more delegates were brought into the conference on time on September 12,

TURKEY: Dam to displace 78,000 Kurds

A planned hydroelectric dam project in south-eastern Turkey will displace up to 78,000 people if international lending agencies and the British government provide financial support, according to a report leaked to British media. According to the

Web site records S11 protests

For a complete record of the three-day S11 protests against the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, check out Green Left Weekly's Global Action web site,http://www.greenleft.org.au/globalaction/s11. The site contains not only a comprehensive daily

Socialists and the S11 blockade

The S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum meeting was an important opportunity for the parties of the left in Australia.

SOUTH AFRICA: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?

In this excerpt from the first Frantz Fanon Memorial Lecture, delivered on August 17 at the University of Durban-Westville School of Governance, PATRICK BOND debates Pretoria's global strategies, tactics and alliances. In a formidable speech on

RUSSIA: Disasters reveal regime's crisis

MOSCOW — August was a fateful month for the Russian authorities. There was a terrorist explosion in Pushkin Square, then the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk, and, on August 27, the Ostankino television tower caught fire. What happened to the

Looking out: Get the message?

Get the message? We must stop succumbing to the rod's guileFor, like strong liquorIt quickly stupefies society's childLured and procuredWhile blindly pursuing cultural bileGrowing up insecureAs grown-up hypocrisies pileJuveniles like