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BY DICK NICHOLS Subscribers to the catalogues of left-wing Sydney bookseller and ALP member Bob Gould were probably surprised to receive in a recent mailing a four-page polemic against something he dubbed "the Green Left Weekly school of
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS Meetings around Australia have been addressed by some of the 21 Australian activists who were detained by the Indonesian police on June 8-9. The activists had been attending the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference in
BY MELANIE SJOBERG As the sun slowly crept above city office buildings, hundreds of union activists and officials responded to an urgent call by the NSW Labor Council to blockade parliament on June 19 in a desperate attempt to prevent Labor Premier
BY PAUL BENEDEK& TAMARA PEARSON SYDNEY — Five Parramatta City Council officers, accompanied by two police, on June 15 ordered a display, which featured graphic photographs of the conditions inside one of Australia's concentration camps for
BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — As George Bush escalates the new Cold War begun by his father, the attention of his planners is moving to the Middle East. Stories about the threat of Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" are again appearing in the US
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — The Australian Services Union (ASU) has called on the Queensland Labor government to make state subsidies for airline companies taking over the routes of collapsed regional airline Flight West conditional on guaranteed
A leading Timorese aid worker has branded as a "sham" an Indonesian canvassing drive which found that 98% of East Timorese refugees confined to camps in West Timor did not want to go home. Winston Neil Rondo, who works in camps in Kupang, claimed
Aggressive earnings management Want to make money but you don't really know how? Not small amounts of money, enough to get you through to the next pay packet or student allowance. Really big amounts of money, enough to impress the stock market. In
BY IGGY KIM Renowned Russian Marxist writer and political commentator Boris Kagarlitsky will speak at the Second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, to be held in Sydney, March 29-April 1, 2002. Kagarlitsky was jailed for his
REVIEW BY SIMON BUTLER The Red North: Queensland's History of StruggleBy Jim McIlroyResistance Books, Sydney 200129 pages, $3.50 Communist parliamentarians, armed rural uprisings, revolutionary soviets — this is hardly the history of Queensland
Mansell, SARAH STEPHEN"> BY SARAH STEPHEN On June 14, the Fairfax company's Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald each ran a three-page expose detailing the stories of four women who allege that they were raped in the 1970s and '80s by
Student Environment conference NEWCASTLE — More than 500 students have registered for this year's Students and Sustainability Conference to be held at the Newcastle University, Callaghan Campus, from July 2 to July 6. Students from around the