BY DAVID GOSLING
CANBERRA One-hundred-and-fifty Burmese and solidarity activists rallied outside the Burmese embassy on June 19 against the current crackdown by the military regime, and to mark Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday.
Burma's junta has
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COMMENT BY DAVID LAFFERTY
Currently, all tertiary students pay an affiliation fee, separate from the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS), to their student union.
This fee varies slightly between universities. A full-time student can
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and
Contemporary America: A Drama in 30 ScenesBy Stephen SewellPlaybox Theatre, MelbourneJune 4-21
REVIEW BY ANNE O'CASEY& KAREN FLETCHER
If the title of Stephen Sewell's latest play sounds like an
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"I feel almost duped." A US official involved in the search for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, frustrated by repeatedly being sent "racing to a series of empty sites", quoted in the Los Angeles Times, June
BY AMANDA ZIVCIC
"This building went up two years ago. It was corruption that brought it down", Algerian student Abelzak told Reuters, as he surveyed the damage of the vastly under-reported May 21 earthquake that left 2200 Algerians dead and more
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Getting a visa to stay in Australia depends on who you know and who you pay money to, rather than the veracity of your claim. That's the conclusion to be drawn from the "cash for visas" scandal currently engulfing immigration
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA It has now been a month since martial law was declared in Indonesia's northern-most province of Aceh. But the "integrated operation" launched by the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) to smash the Free Aceh Movement (GAM)
Actively Radical TV Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone (02) 9564 1277. Visit
BY MICHELLE BREAR
Young progressive activists will be converging on Sydney from July 11 to 13, to discuss, debate and listen to international campaigners at the Resistance national conference.
"Thousands of young people took part in their first
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Last July, two children asked the Family Court to make the immigration minister release them from detention, because it was harmful to their welfare. The judge, however, found in October that the court did not have jurisdiction
BY EVA CHENG
At US$45.6 billion, Japan's military budget was dwarfed only by the military budget of the United States which totalled $396.1 billion for fiscal 2003. Throughout the 1990s, Japan's war budget was the second largest in the world
On March 20, the day the US, Britain and Australia launched their war on Iraq, the federal government reintroduced a bill into the House of Representatives to give the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) draconian police powers.
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