BY SARAH STEPHEN
A spate of clashes in recent months between detention centre guards and imprisoned asylum seekers has led the Howard government to escalate its campaign to demonise, and further punish, detainees who protest against the conditions
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BY SARAH CLEARY
HOBART — The student representative body at the University of Tasmania has applied to the Anti-Discrimination Commission for an exemption to anti-discrimination laws in order to create a woman-only women's officer position, an
Internet: the future
Which way for the internet? Some observers have declared the internet dead (or boring, which is much the same in the fashion driven world of marketing). Forrester Research, the organisation which makes a lot of money hyping
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Song of TibetDirected by Xie Fei 2001 Sydney Film Festival
Set in Lhasa, in the hills of Tibet, Song of Tibet captures much of the rugged beauty of the country. In recalling her life, Yixi takes us back to the 1950s, when
BY SEAN HEALY
@box text intr = One group of small farmers has managed to escape the wreckage of the coffee price plunge and the "tyranny of the C market": those farmers organised in the global Fair Trade network.
To have their coffee certified as
China's Dilemma: The Taiwan IssueBy Sheng LijunInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore2001 239 pagesS$45.90
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
It's no accident that Sheng Lijun named his new book on Taiwan China's Dilemma — he seems to see "the Taiwan
BY SIMON BUTLER
The 2001 Students and Sustainability (S&S) conference, held July 2-6 at the University of Newcastle, attracted more than 500 student environmental activists. Much of the debate at the conference revolved around the significance of
REVIEW BY JON HILLSON
Before Night FallsStarring Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea di Stefano, Johnny Depp and Michael WincottDirected by Julian SchnabelGrandview Pictures, Fine Line Films 2000.
Those who defend the Cuban Revolution should
Socialism with capitalist characteristics
"They are also working for building socialism with Chinese characteristics." — Chinese President Jiang Zemin, announcing that businesspeople can join the Communist Party.
The CCP?
"If we let people
BY MEGAN WHITE-FOX
BYRON BAY — US Independence Day (July 4) was marked here by the burning of a US "dollar signs and stripes" flag as part of a rally demanding drug law reform.
The flag burning symbolised the US-led "war on drugs" that
BY CHRIS SLEE
The civil war raging in Sri Lanka cannot be ended through negotiations between the government and Tamils fighting for self-determination, a visiting Sri Lankan farmer activist has said.
It is "the unarmed people of all ethnic groups
On July 3, an Israeli settler named Yair Har-Sinai was shot to death near a settlement enclave south of the West Bank.
Fellow-settlers, who were extensively interviewed, explained two things about him: unlike other settlers, he did not carry a gun
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