Stuart Munckton The 30th Common Market of the South (Mercosur) summit was held on July 20-21 in Cordoba, Argentina, and was the first presidential summit since Mercosur accepted Venezuela as a full member on July 4. Mercosur also includes Brazil,
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Emma Clancy As second semester begins on university campuses around the country, students are organising against Israel's wars on Lebanon and Gaza, and making plans to hold on-campus demonstrations and public forums to express their outrage at the
Kim Bullimore While most world attention has focused on the brutal Israeli attack on Lebanon, Israeli occupation forces have continued to their month-long assault on the Gaza Strip. Since June 28, Israeli occupation forces have carried out more than
SYDNEY — Thirty people attended a forum organised by the Parramatta Peace Group on July 29 on the theme of "Iran and the myth of a nuclear threat". The keynote speaker, Greens Senator Kerry Nettle, restated the Greens' opposition to nuclear energy
Pip Hinman A holocaust is engulfing Lebanon. Hundreds of civilians are dead, thousands injured. Entire villages and suburbs have been destroyed. The United Nations says that a third of the casualties in Lebanon are children, and that a million
Peter Boyle Share prices for BHP Billiton (Olympic Dam uranium mine) and Rio Tinto (Ranger mine) leapt up when Labor leader Kim Beazley announced that he would campaign to overturn Labor's "no new uranium mines" policy at the next party conference.
SYDNEY — Addressing 60 people at the Parramatta Town Hall on July 25, ABC TV's NSW Stateline program presenter Quentin Dempster challenged the recent appointment of conservative historian Keith Windschuttle to the ABC's board of directors. Dempster
Graham Matthews An academic appointed to advise the Australian (un)Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) on the link between wages and unemployment has called for the minimum wage to be frozen. According to Professor Phil Lewis in the July 22 Australian, there
GEELONG — On July 24, 200 people jeered PM John Howard as he arrived to attend a meet-and-greet in Bannockburn, a small rural town 22 kilometres north-west of Geelong. The protesters, including trade unionists, environmentalists, pensioners,
Izzat Abdul Hadi, a researcher and writer, is the new head of the Palestinian delegation to Australia. Previously the head of a Palestinian community development organisation and a founder of the Palestinian non-government organisation Network, this
According to Doug Rokke, the former director of the US Army's depleted uranium project, the US's delivery of 100 GBU 28 laser-guided bunker-buster bombs with depleted uranium warheads to Israel for use in its brutal offensive against Lebanon will
Sue Bolton The WA CFMEU "has received magnificent support from all over Australia and all over the world", state secretary Kevin Reynolds told Green Left Weekly. "We've had support from unionists in the United States, Britain, Germany and all over
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