BY SARAH STEPHEN
MELBOURNE — October 3 was to be the first day of the three-day blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum — the O3 blockade. But in the wake of Howard's cancellation of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, and with it
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Encouraging racism
I'm writing in response to Ahmad Nimer's article in GLW #464 "Attacks on US leave Israel the winner".
I simply cannot understand how such biassed and one-sided articles are allowed to be published in the GLW newspaper. His
BY CAROL BERRY
WOLLONGONG — Stages 2-6 of the upmarket housing development at Sandon Point were approved in a decision by the NSW Land and Environment Court last week. The decision on the first stage of the development has yet to be handed down.
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Jocelyn Scutt ruled on September 21 that the Tasmania University Union (TUU) will not be allowed to restrict the newly created men's officer position to men.
The men's officer position
BY BRUNO RODRIGUEZ
[The following is an abridged version of a speech by Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuba's permanent representative to the United Nations, delivered at the UN General Assembly session on October 1, 2001.]
In a speech delivered just
According to a report in the September 15 Los Angeles Times, the politically charged rock band Rage Against the Machine had the bulletin board service on its official web site closed after fans made postings — including one reportedly threatening
Administrative behaviour
"If members of free society think this kind of treatment is conducive to a prisoner's inclination to rehabilitate himself or herself, they are mistaken." — Irving Elmer Bell.
Several years ago, my mother wrote to me
BY NORM DIXON
On September 26, police opened fire on protesting residents in Tafelsig, Cape Town, who had mobilised to prevent 1800 households' water supplies being cut off by the Cape Town Unicity council.
At least 15 people were wounded in the
BY PHIL SHANNON
CANBERRA — Payroll services, including the production and delivery of fortnightly payslips, for staff in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care have been outsourced during the previous year to a private company. In
Green parties around the world have differing opinions on planned US-led military strikes on Afghanistan in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most have expressed concern about military attacks, but without opposing them outright.
BY SEAN HEALY
BRISBANE — Have you ever worried about what would happen to all the protests if the summits of world leaders suddenly stopped? Well, don't. On the evidence here in the last few days, the movement for global justice is still ready to
BY NICOLE COLSON & ERIC RUDER
Within a week of the attacks in New York and Washington, every major city in the US and many more towns and college campuses saw events of all kinds to oppose Bush's war drive and the tide of racist attacks on Arab
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