BY SARAH STEPHEN
On September 24, six pieces of legislation were rammed through the Senate after debate was gagged with the support of the Labor Party. A seventh law was still being debated at the close of sitting. The laws will dramatically
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BY SEAN HEALY
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Washington, DC, on September 29-30 weekend in opposition to President George Bush's plans to launch a war in the Middle East in retaliation for the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US.
[The following speech was made by Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana on September 22, 2001.]
No one can deny that terrorism is today a dangerous and ethically indefensible phenomenon, which should be eradicated regardless of its deep origins,
Wollongong
Five hundred people turned up to the "world's biggest hug for peace" on October 1, Stuart Martin reports. A week before a rally for peace initiated by the Socialist Alliance attracted 150 people.
Called by peace activists, the Hug for
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary WollstonecraftBy Diane JacobsAbacus, 2001333 pages, $28 (pb)
A "hyena in petticoats", wrote London literary eminence Horace Walpole in 1795 in a fit of misogynist pique against Mary
A ConversationBy David WilliamsonDirected by Sandra BatesEnsemble Theatre, SydneyUntil November 3
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
The theme of violence against innocents, and the justice or impunity that follows, has never been more timely. The real
US President George Bush would like us to believe he is about to liberate the Afghan people from the tyranny of the Taliban. He's promised US$320 million worth of humanitarian aid, some of which is to be air-dropped into Afghanistan — once the
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
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 ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — "We are here today to say we will not support Bush and his allies in their frantic drive to retaliate. Revenge will not stop terrorism, war will not stop terrorism; war will only generate more horrendous terrorist acts",
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 ALISON DELLIT
In 1970, thousands of young people joined Edwin Starr in asking "War — What is it good for?". In 2001, Prime Minister John Howard has come up with an answer — winning elections.
Before September 11, Howard was facing down one
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