Nuclear dumping in Japan
By Eva Cheng
Japan's central government and power industries have dumped 14 tons of highly radioactive waste in the northern fishing and farming town of Rokkasho despite strong objection from the local residents.
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Amateur
Written, directed and produced by Hal Hartley
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan and Elina Lowensohn
Screening at the Sydney Film Festival
Reviewed by Barry Healy
Here is the strange world of Amateur: an ex-nun writing
By Nikki Ulasowski
Following the May 3 "No Fees for Degrees" national day of action, students in Adelaide established a tent university outside the ALP headquarters. Green Left Weekly interviewed EMMA WEBB, an activist in the South Australian
The President of the Bougainville Interim Government, Francis Ona, on May 16 called for an end to armed conflict with Papua New Guinea on Bougainville.
The resolution of the interim government:
reiterated its demand for the withdrawal of
WA TAFE teachers protest privatisation
By Martin Price
and Anne Pavy
PERTH — Coffins, symbolising the death of TAFE, were carried onto the steps of Parliament House during a rally on May 18 organised by the State School Teachers Union
By Jorge Jorquera
The Labor National Herald: This is undoubtedly what the true believers have been waiting for. It is, sort of, what the headline on the cover of the first issue proclaims — "the first national Labor paper".
A memo from
By Michael Tardif
AUCKLAND — Students across New Zealand demonstrated against fees for tertiary education on May 3 as part of a national day of action timed to coincide with similar student actions in Australia.
The actions demanded an
Supportive
"Those people, including senior Federal Labor ministers, have all been very supportive, many expressing their disgust at the attacks on me and urging me not to resign as Deputy President [of the Senate]." — Wife-basher Senator Noel
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Arthur Tunstall
Timorese student killed
According to Portuguese press reports, on May 18 East Timorese student Filomeno dos Santos, 26 years old, died in prison in Dili after being tortured for several hours by three Indonesian intelligence agents.
Family
ROTTERDAM — Greenpeace has found alarmingly high levels of a highly toxic organochlorine chemical in sediments along the eastern edge of the North Sea in the Wadden See, the environmental group said on May 15.
The chemicals, chlorinated
By Max Lane
On May 14 the Indonesian press reported that the prison memoirs of the country's most popular and respected novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, had been banned. The banning order for Silent Song of a Mute had been signed by Attorney
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