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Filipino socialists: Australian forces should get out

Filipino socialist group, the Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM), released the statement slightly abridged below on September 3 after the Australian government announced to it would send special forces to work with the murderous Rodrigo Duterte regime in Mindanao in the name of the “war on terror”.

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The PLM demands that the Australian government withdraw the two Australian air force Orion spy planes participating in combat since June in Marawi, Mindanao, and abandon plans announced by Australian government ministers to send special forces.

Australia's Spies and Their Secrets

Australia's Spies and Their Secrets ASIO after the Cold War In his important book, Australia's Spies and Their Secrets, author David McKnight takes the lid off the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), using never before

Exciting the brain

Exciting the brain Arcadia Written by Tom Stoppard Performed by the Sydney Theatre Company Opera House Drama Theatre Reviewed by Minnie O'Shea and Helen Jarvis The celebrated playwright Tom Stoppard continues to excite the brain

Mining takes its toll on West Papua

Mining takes its toll on West Papua In the shadow of glacier-capped Puncak Jaya in West Papua the US-owned Freeport Mining Company is extracting ore from the largest gold reserves and above-ground copper deposits in the world. The mine earns

Grunge meets gothic

Grunge meets gothic The Crow Directed by Alex Proyas Starts on July 21 The Crow soundtrack by various artists Reviewed by Nick Fredman The Crow is a black, humorous and violent grunge/gothic fable of true love and good versus

Qld govt bows to developers

By Hilary Tilton BRIBIE ISLAND — Queensland environmentalists have been alerted to a possible attempt by the Goss Labour government to fast-track legislation to replace the current Queensland Local Government (Planning and Environment) Act.

East Timor: Church slams Australia's role

By Jon Land Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, has condemned the Australian government for its soft stance on human rights in East Timor. He has been joined by church leaders and human rights activists in Australia who

Radio highlights

Democracy and Nation — The White Australia Policy — The period 1890 to 1940, marked the high-point of racial determinism in the West. The response in Australia was the formulation of the racist White Australia Policy. Prominent union, Labour

On the Box

Masterpiece: Larry Kramer — "The idea of a judicious Larry Kramer is an oxymoron ... I would like there to be a gay Malcolm X, a gay Martin Luther King ... but until there is, Larry is the best we've got," says Christopher Bram, critic and writer.

Hospital beds face the chop

Hospital beds face the chop By Seetal Dodd MELBOURNE — The state minister for health, Marie Tehan, and the federal minister for veterans affairs, Con Sciacca have announced the amalgamation of three hospitals in the northern suburbs.

US wavers on Haiti invasion

By Allen Jennings "With the president indicating that the military option is still there, we clearly need to be in a position to be ready, should he ask us," said Pentagon spokesperson Dennis Boxx, justifying the massive United States military

Cuba: surviving the blockade

July 26 is a special day in the history of the Cuban revolution. On this day in 1953, Fidel Castro led an attack on the Moncada army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. The attack was crushed and Castro was tried and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.