Anthony Defraine & Tom Flanagan, Lismore
Students and staff held a spirited protest outside the Southern Cross University council meeting on May 21.
The council was initially expected to consider increasing HECS charges for 2005. Although a
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Jack Smit
Medical care in detention centres is still substandard, and is not at all confined to the past, contrary to former immigration minister Philip Ruddock's allegations on ABC's AM program on May 6.
Project SafeCom has been able to confirm
Alex Tighe, Sydney
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the proportion of workers classified as casuals has grown rapidly since the mid-1980s — from 13% in 1984 to more than 26% of the work force today.
That's a lot of workers who
Sam Pillay
Responsibility for the abuse of prisoners in Iraq reaches all the way to General Richard Myers, who is the chairperson of the joint chiefs of staff, and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to the United States Army Times online
[The following is abridged from a statement issued on May 20 by the Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea (MKOTT).]
Dear Australian people,
Warm solidarity greetings from East Timor!
We hope you share our joy in celebrating the
Eric Ruder
Israel has focused its reign of terror on Gaza. While on March 21, Israel announced it had "thinned out its presence" in the Rafeh refugee camp — home to 90,000 Palestinians — it remained under heavy siege.
The Israel Defense Force
Americans are honorary Iraqis
"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilise their country." — Emperor George Bush II, May 5.
On Bushworld
"You've got to understand that military options are always my
Philippa Skinner
NSW Premier Bob Carr is attempting to introduce legislation to counter a victory won by protests opposing filming of the movie Stealth in the Blue Mountains National Park, a world heritage area.
In late April, the NSW Land and
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
On June 18, the Northern Territory Supreme Court will hear an appeal to re-open the coronial inquest into the death in custody of Douglas Bruce Scott. The case has been lodged by his widow Letty Scott, who has been fighting for
Sarah Stephen
In the four months following the MV Tampa's dramatic stand-off with the Australian government in September 2001, 1830 asylum seekers were intercepted by the Australian Navy on their way to Australia and taken to Australian-funded
Doug Lorimer
The failure of US troops' bloody attempts to crush the Iraqi people's armed rebellions in Fallujah and Najaf — and the public outrage across the world sparked by the revelations of the systematic torture of Iraqi prisoners by US
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Workers injured in BHP explosion.
PERTH - Three workers are fighting for life in the Royal Perth Hospital after suffering horrific burns in a gas explosion at BHP Billiton's Boodarie hot briquette iron plant at Port Hedland on May 19. While a
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