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BY SARAH STEPHEN The forced return of Alamdar and Montazar Baktiyari to the Woomera immigration prison — which dramatically unfolded on news telecasts on July 18 — has horrified millions of people across Australia and the world. It was a
Museworthy: Your Pen & Mine The epiphanies are rushing togetherThe epiphanies of povertyOf light and emptiness and the mass of lifeThat remembers itselfIn the square of your childhood village The sunflower's head is too heavyFor its
BY ARUN PRADHAN MELBOURNE — Forget about the Gold Coast, the next series of Big Brother should be televised from the Woomera refugee detention centre according to comedian Rod Quantock. After all, "it's all ready to go, all you need is the
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY MOSCOW — For 10 years now, a chorus of politicians, journalists and sociologists has been telling the Russian people a story as simple and appealing as Little Red Riding Hood. It goes like this: society was deformed by
BY EVA CHENG As US corporate crime scandals spread by the day, even US President George Bush and vice-president Dick Cheney have been implicated in the shady practices that have triggered panic on stockmarkets around the world. The US Securities
BY DALE MILLS SYDNEY — "If you're under 30 and born in an Australian hospital, there is a permanent record of your blood which can be used for DNA profiling" a forum was told on July 17. The meeting, titled "A Critical Forum on Surveillance and
BY NICOLE HILDER WOLLONGONG — In an eight-page glossy brochure delivered to northern Illawarra residents in May, Stocklands describes itself as "one of the most respected development and investment groups in Australia". Yet its Sandon Point
David Bradbury replies Your review of Fond Memories of Cuba (GLW #500) is what reluctantly I have come to expect of the dogmatic left response your paper has on too many issues that vitally concern all progressive and left minded people in
BY NICK FREDMAN LISMORE — At a breakfast function for businesspeople here on July 18, deputy prime minister John Anderson was met by banners, placards and twenty-five chanting people opposing the government's policy of the mandatory detention of
On July 21, hundreds of Green Left Weekly supporters around the country gathered to celebrate the production of the 500th issue of GLW. Pictured is Akasha performing at the GLW fiesta in Melbourne. Photo by Peter Johnston. From Green
US President George Bush needs another bloody Gulf War to win the mid-term US Congress elections in November. The serious shooting may start before or after that election, but the troops and the multi-billion dollar killing machines are already
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK TOWNSVILLE — Indonesian trade union leader Dita Sari was one of 29 Third World women activists denied a visa to attend the annual International Women's Conference and the Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference