Just behaves like one
"I do not feel like a dill." — Australian Defence Force chief Admiral Chris Barrie, speaking at a February 27 press conference at which he finally acknowledged what all his subordinates had been telling him for more than
483
REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
In Sleepy Scotland
Alistair Hulett
The Cold Grey Light of Dawn
Alistair Hulett and Dave Swarbrick
Saturday Johnny and Jimmy the Rat
Alistair Hulett and Dave Swarbrick
Order at
[On February 19, Mauritius' interim president, Supreme Court Chief Justice Arianga Pillay, signed into law anti-terrorism legislation over which his two predecessors had resigned. Twice passed by parliament, the Prevention of Terrorism Bill, deemed
BY JIM McILROY & NICK EVERETT
Three hundred people greeted the arrival of the refugee "Freedom Bus" in Brisbane on February 17, while 100 people packed into Sydney Trades Hall on February 25 to hear participants on the Freedom Bus describe their
REVIEW BY ANGELA LUVERA
Made in Indonesia: Indonesian workers since SuhartoBy Dan La BotzSouth End Press, 2001395 pages, US$18Order at <http://www.southendpress.org>
Radical US writer Dan La Botz creates scenes of Indonesia in Made in
BY JOHN PERCY
The decision of the Sydney Palm Sunday 2002 organising committee to ban participation by members of the Democratic Socialist Party sets a dangerous precedent.
Parties and other political organisations obviously have a right to
BY LEE SUSTAR
CHICAGO — Enron isn't the half of it. Revelations of more colossal financial scams in corporate America swept into the news last week amid the bankruptcy of telecommunications company Global Crossing.
As in Enron's case, company
In 1972, US President Richard Nixon suggested that Washington drop nuclear bombs on North Vietnam, just-released tapes of conversations between Nixon and then US secretary of state Henry Kissinger have revealed.
Nixon's suggestion was found in 500
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Australia-Indonesia sponsored Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime held in Bali, February 27-28, failed to provide any real answers to the problems it was ostensibly
BY AARON BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Police arrested four student activists on February 28 during the University of Sydney's orientation week. The four arrested had joined around a dozen others in an anti-Liberal sing-along next to the Liberal student club
The solution to airline crisis
The February 27 collapse of the Tesna bid from millionaires Lindsay Fox
and Solomon Lew for Ansett will almost certainly mark the final end of
that airline. As a result, Australians can look forward to
BY SARAH STEPHEN
On February 28 the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees began a joint international campaign against the lack of rights for asylum seekers in Turkey.
Currently,
- Page 1
- Next page