EAST TIMOR: Unanswered questions on transition
As East Timor moves towards full independence under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), the obligations and conduct of the UN, international aid
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BY SEAN HEALY
As unifying slogans go, "Fair trade, not free trade" has a lot going for it: it's simple, it stands against the injustice of corporate-dominated trade masquerading as "freedom" and it poses at least the beginning of an alternative
Globalise this!
GlobalizationInsurgeChatterbox/Phantom RecordsOrder at <http://www.insurge.com.au>. REVIEW BY SEAN HEALY
There have been plenty of bands who've been radical and angry in their early albums, only to turn to mush. Insurge
Workers protest student association merger
BY RORY CAMPBELL
GEELONG — Staff at the Geelong Association of Students struck for three days, from July 18-20, in protest at the refusal of the association's board to discuss the impact of a planned
A few hours with me
"It was a delightful visit ... [but] much too short." — Jane Austen 1775-1817 While reading bits and pieces of Jane Austen's work, the quote above impressed itself upon me. I agree with her; a visit is much too short. In
Mayor defends Townsville homophobia
BY BRIDGET RIGGS
TOWNSVILLE — Responding to televised accusations of rampant homophobia in his city, Townsville Mayor Tony Mooney has dug himself in further by blaming the messenger, claiming to be "outraged"
Darwin council cracks down on free speech
BY PETER JOHNSTON
DARWIN — Darwin City Council has cracked down on free speech on the city's streets, fining Resistance activist Jo Ellis $50 for distributing Green Left Weekly in a public place without
BY BARBARA WHELAN
PERTH — After months of campaigning by students and staff at Murdoch University here, including a nine-day occupation in May, the university's Senate has backed off from plans to cut courses, imposed in a management drive to
INDONESIA: Activists demand an end to corruption
On July 20, huge banners, which dwarfed the activists who daringly scaled the walls of Indonesia's parliament building in Jakarta to hang them, announced the demands of the People's Democratic Party
International news briefs
Rio Tinto workers resume blockade
JAKARTA — Coalmining company PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) stopped operations on July 18 for a second time in less than five weeks after striking workers resumed their blockade in the
It's unanimous: no more women's prisons!
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — Prisoners' rights group Justice Action has called for the state's corrective services minister Bob Debus to abandon plans to build a new women's jail at Windsor, after the Upper
S11 Alliance pickets Downer
BY ANGELA LUVERA
BRISBANE — Armed with a leaflet declaring "Picket Downer! Shut Down the WEF!", 25 students braved the early morning to picket a function attended by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. The function,
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