BY ALISON DELLIT
In 1788, Captain James Cook justified land theft from Aborigines on the basis that they "set no value upon anything" and were incapable of "improving their lot". In 2000, Prime Minister John Howard justified further attacks on
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BY DANIEL NEWMAN
& BRONWYN POWELL
WOLLONGONG At a meeting at Brandon Park on February 5, 3000 BHP
Port Kembla steelworkers voted for an immediate 24-hour strike, a series
of rolling stoppages and called for a national steel union
BY SIMON TAYLER
As we drive into Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, the first thing I feel is the place's isolation from the world around it. To the south, only just visible, is the local industrial area — book printers and truck yards.
Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest
form to any child at any stage of development. Jerome Seymour Bruner,
from The Process of Education (1960)
No matter how young or old one might be, politics is open to
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics (ABARE) released its report on the outcome of dairy deregulation on January 30. It confirmed that in the six months since the final stage of dairy deregulation was implemented on July 1, 200
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — "With M1, the people's movement is taking the initiative to protest against the rule of the corporate elite", declares the rallying call of M1 Adelaide, adopted at the coalition's February 7 meeting.
The statement
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — On February 5, the Industrial Relations Commission began a hearing on the dispute between Yallourn Energy and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. The CFMEU is appealing against the termination of its
The images appear thick and fast: a spaceship, a starving child, a computer, a barefoot peasant. The opening shots of a community TV documentary? No. The "Flash" intro sequence on an activist group's web site? No. This was the
BY BEN REID
MANILA — The leader of the militant BMP trade union federation and prominent leftist, Filemon "Popoy" Lagman, was assassinated on February 6. Four gunmen opened fire while Lagman was visiting the Diliman campus of the University of
BY NORM DIXON
The eminent barrister Horace Rumpole has often noted that the "golden thread running through the history of British justice" is that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty by the prosecution "beyond a reasonable doubt". Of
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — A native title claim by the Yorta Yorta people for a small portion of their traditional lands in the Murray-Goulburn region on the NSW-Victoria border was rejected by the full bench of the Federal Court on February 8.
BY MARGARET ALLUM
"In his attempt at reinventing himself, Ariel Sharon is claiming supernatural powers — i.e. the ability to accomplish the impossible", wrote Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian parliamentarian and professor at Birzeit University, in
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