BY ALISON DELLIT
In sentencing One Nation founders Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge to three years' imprisonment, Queensland judge Patsy Wood told the court that the case had "substantially damaged" Hanson's political career. If only she was
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BY ALEX MILNE
Environment groups have welcomed mining company Energy Resources of Australia's commencement of rehabilitation work at the Jabiluka uranium mine, an enclave within the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory.
"This is a huge
BY EVA CHENG
The last legal barrier for the release of GM food crops in Australia was breached on July 28, when the federal government approved the commercial release of GM canola by Bayer CropScience corporation. The first-ever approval of the
BY KRIS KOCSIS
MELBOURNE — As the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) strike and picket at Smorgon Steel passes the six-month mark, the union faces another challenge as the company attempts to further divide unions on the job.
Twenty-five
BY DOUG LORIMER
In the wake of the August 19 truck bombing of the United Nations mission in Baghdad, US President George Bush's administration is coming under increased pressure from within the US ruling elite to boost the number of troops in Iraq
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLEY
Our cinema screens are monopolised by Hollywood spectaculars made with budgets equivalent to the annual GDPs of small Third World countries. Yet there are still films being made that concern themselves with themes other than
BY CHRISTANO KERRILA
When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began his six-year second term in 2000, his party only controlled the executive and the parliamentary arms of government. The Venezuelan oligarchy continues to control some regional and
BY ALEX MILNE
MELBOURNE — Four-hundred people rallied at Parliament House on August 27 to demand that the Strzelecki forests be protected. Protesters called for the creation of a Strzelecki Ranges National Park. Greens senator Bob Brown addressed
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
CARACAS — Dr Carolus Wimmer is in no doubt that a revolutionary process is underway in Venezuela. "Really it's a process of social and economic transformation, which I defend as, definitely, a revolutionary process", he told
Scottish Socialist Party MP Tommy Sheridan on August 25 chose to go to jail rather than pay a fine imposed on him after his arrest at an anti-nuclear demonstration at the Faslane Naval Base on February 11, 2002.
Nuclear-armed British submarines
Peace movement factionalism
I was saddened to read about the split in the Sydney Walk Against the War Coalition. Downturns in movements seem to bring out this sort of factionalism but upsurges sweep it aside, which gives me hope.
There are
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — According to an unnamed senior federal education department officer quoted in the August 11 Sydney Morning Herald, the government censored the National Report on Australia's Higher Education Sector (2001), because it
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