Islanders from three US nuclear test-affected atolls are filing lawsuits in US courts seeking more than US$1 billion compensation. Bikini Atoll will file a claim during March, 60 years after the US Navy removed their population to start the first
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Sarah Stephen
On April 2, protesters will rally around Australia in support of a free and independent West Papua, and to demand immediate asylum for the 43 West Papuans who remain on Christmas Island awaiting the outcome of their applications.
Political censorship?
Richard Neville, the Australian-born political satirist jailed in England after the Oz magazine censorship trial in 1971, created a website — johnhowardpm.org — modelled on PM Joihn Howard's official pm.gov.au, and put on
Graham Matthews & Sue Bolton
At its March 7 meeting, the Australian Council of Trade Unions executive passed a resolution that called for "A week of activities, June 25-July 2, with rallies to be held on Wednesday 28 June 2006, under the National
As it Happened: The Other Side of SuezDirected by Eron SheeanSBS, Saturday March 25, 7.30pm
REVIEW BY JENNY LONG
A ruthless and bloody imperialist policy, using dodgy intelligence, against an independent country of the Middle East, in order to
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died in his cell at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on March 11, where he was facing trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Balkans during the 1990s, including the 1995 massacre of
"It looks as though we'll have to have a memorial
service for free speech, a state funeral for democracy. These arrests are a symptom of Australia's arrested development. Whilst the A-list enjoyed a tribal gathering at the
expense of the
Stuart Munckton
Associated Press reported on March 14 that the left-wing Venezuelan government has hiked up the rate of income tax being paid by oil multinationals that invest in Venezuela, from 34% to 50%. Multinationals have already had to
Peter Boyle
Once a week I have a chat to Simon, an aged pensioner, who learned the meaning of real hunger as a child growing up in a poor family in Ireland. In his working life in Australia, first as a labourer in the Snowy Mountains scheme and
Zely Ariane, Jakarta
On March 15, at least 2000 poor people, most of them housewives, rallied outside the office of the minister for people's welfare, before marching to the presidential palace and the Jakarta governor's office, to demand that the
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