BY JORGE JORQUERA
Venezuelan student leader Alvaro Guzman explained the revolutionary process underway in his country to hundreds of people at public meetings in Brisbane, Canberra, Newcastle, Wollongong and Sydney during the second week of his
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BY AHMAD NIMER
As the current Palestinian uprising enters its fourth year, many commentators appear puzzled by the duration and tenacity of the intifada (meaning "shaking off").
If the intifada was "orchestrated" by Palestinian Authority (PA)
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — More than 800 schools were shut down in NSW on September 17. The 24-hour strike also closed colleges and TAFEs across NSW, as tens of thousands of primary, secondary, TAFE and trainee teachers took part.
The industrial
BY BARRY SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO — "If you do this recall, you may create a problem that you won't get over for a long, long time. This spreads instability and uncertainty among [California's] people and people around the country."
The speaker
BY JESS MELVIN
Eating disorders now rank as Australia's third worst health problem for women under 18 years old. A recent survey conducted from June 2002 to June 2003 by the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, which involved all Australian
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BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — At its meeting on September 18 the Perth No War Alliance decided to change its planned October 25 protest, in order to hold a protest coinciding with the visit to Australia of US President George Bush.
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SUVA — The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) and Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy (ECREA) in Fiji on September 16 supported calls for a consumer boycott of products made by the Fiji government-owned Pacific Fishing
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Across Australia, 100,000 teachers poured out of their schools throughout Australia on September 17 in the biggest teacher action that has ever taken place in this country, and the biggest single-profession national strike
BY JOHN NICHOLS
Later this year, the American Recordings label will release a collection of Johnny Cash songs which will include a collaboration with one of the legendary country singer's greatest fans, the late Joe Strummer. The pair's version of
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Queensland Liberal senator Brett Mason has been accused of being a "dummy-spitting bigot", after he criticised the acknowledgment of traditional land owners at citizenship ceremonies.
Mason used a citizenship day speech
BY ROHAN PEARCE
An investigation by the Washington Post's Vernon Loeb has revealed that the number of US troops in Iraq who are being officially classified "wounded in action" is around 10 per day. The number of soldiers injured by the Iraqi
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