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BY GEORGINA DAVIES MELBOURNE — Victoria Police have agreed to pay $50,000 to seven environment activists who were assaulted during a peaceful demonstration by 20 people in February 1994. The East Gippsland Forest Alliance protesters are to
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE DURBAN — From Boksburg to Berlin, discerning ears are being seduced by a record label that measures its success in the currency of meaning. If this culture reaches critical mass, "the global village" might just stop being a
BY CAM PARKER SYDNEY — Recent allegations of left-wing bias at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are little more than justifications for greater political interference by the federal Coalition government. The big-business newspapers have
BY GEORGINA DAVIES MELBOURNE — A 24-hour stop work meeting by 250 members of the Latrobe Valley branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) caused power blackouts and restrictions across Victoria. The workers voted to
Billy Elliot Directed by Stephen Daldry With Jamie Bell and Julie Walters  REVIEW BY ADAM GOLDSTEIN The depiction of British working-class life in films, beginning in the late-1950s, emerged full-bloom in the 1990s. It has taken
BY EDWARD SAID The events of the past four weeks in Palestine have been a near-total triumph for Zionism in the United States for the first time since the modern re-emergence of the Palestinian national movement in the late 1960s. Political as well
In September, Mifepristone, better known as RU486, was finally approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in early pregnancy abortions. Despite having been safely administered in France, where it is now used in one third of
Peddling baloney Eating McDonald's hamburgers and fries reflects "an individualistic relationship between man and God which goes back to [Martin] Luther". — Catholic theologian Massimo Salami writing in the Italian bishops' daily Avvenire.
BY SEAN HEALY While trade bureaucrats from the rich countries begin negotiations in Geneva to extend the World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Agriculture, a new report released by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) shows
BY MELODY COUTMAN & ALISON DELLIT NEWCASTLE — The ballots cast in the Newcastle University Student Association (NUSA) presidential by-election on November 6-7 are to be destroyed uncounted, following a decision by the NUSA executive to uphold the
SARI KASSIS from Friends of Palestine spoke at a Green Left Weekly forum in Sydney on November 1. The following is an abridged version of his speech. I am a card-carrying Palestinian. The card is a small orange identity card. This card doesn't so
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS In the past week, the University of Canberra Students Association and the Wollongong University Student Representative Council have added their support to the "Global Action for Global Justice" student solidarity conference