Nation or religion?
Shua Garfield (Write On #495) rightly claims Jews can live peaceably among non-Jews but he must admit to do so they often have to accept and suffer anti-Semitism wherever they so choose to live, hence the Zionist allure of a
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BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — The Socialist Alliance has announced what it describes as "the most ambitions socialist campaign ever for a Tasmanian state election". The Tasmanian Labor government has called an early election for July 20.
"We will
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Four people were arrested on June 18 as police and security guards moved in to allow the commencement of surveying and earthmoving works at the site of the proposed nuclear food irradiation facility at Narangba industrial
BY ANNE COOMBS
Before the arrival of the MV Tampa off Christmas Island last August, the locals were accustomed to "boat people" landing on their island. There was an accepted procedure: One of the port barges would go out with police and a customs
BY ALAN MAASS
On June 10, the US attorney general John Ashcroft announced that an alleged al Qaeda operative, who was plotting to set off a bomb packed with radioactive material in Washington, DC, had been arrested.
The announcement sparked a
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Immigration minister Philip Ruddock, in the June 7 Canberra Times, warned public servants not to get involved in politics by supporting the World Refugee Day rallies for refugees' rights on June 22-23.
Andrew Hall, spokesperson
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — Four of the seven Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members charged over alleged vandalism during a "run-through" at office of Skilled Engineering in Box Hill on June 15, 2001, have been committed to stand
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — More than 10,000 Queensland public hospital nurses struck for up to 24 hours on June 20 in support of their claims for pay rises and improved working conditions. The nurses voted unanimously at rallies around the state to
Under the shadow of the bomb
Jang aur Aman (War and Peace)Directed by Anand PatwardhanScreened at the 49th Sydney Film Festival
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
Since it became formally independent 55 years ago, India has hardly known peace. The country has
It's a shadowy, unaccountable transnational organisation, dispensing bribes to the Third World and riddled with corruption. No, not the IMF, but FIFA — the international football federation that runs soccer's World Cup.
On May 29, just days
BY EVA CHENG
In the latest attack on a growing struggle by peasants for land rights in Punjab, police raided seven villages in the Khanewal district on June 8. Eight people were arrested. Many more would have been detained had it not been for the
We are looking for any musicians interested in performing at a Rock for the Refugees benefit concert to be held in Sydney some time in August.
We want to hear from any artists who can help out. Please contact Mike Cook at
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