Protesters target Howard
CANBERRA One hundred people protested against the federal government's pro-war and anti-refugee policies on September 11 outside the National Press Club while Prime Minister John Howard was giving a speech.
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[The following statement was issued on September 11 by Peaceful Tomorrows, an advocacy organisation founded by family members of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.]
"The past is prophetic in that it
BY JASON DI ROSSO
ABC Radio National's Hindsight program will present a 60-minute
documentary on the 1973 strike by workers at Ford's Broadmeadows plant,
near Melbourne.
In the program, former metalworkers' union leader Laurie
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART Office-bearer positions in the September 10-13 elections
for the Tasmania University Union (TUU) were predominantly won by a ticket
called SHAG. A referendum to declare the campus a refugee safe haven won
two
KIM STANLEY
ROBINSON is one of the most highly awarded science fiction (SF) writers,
winning the Nebula and Hugo awards for his Mars series (Green Mars,
Red Mars, Blue Mars and The Martians), among a dozen other novels
and short story
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE The September 7-8 Radical Times: Brisbane in the '60s
and '70s conference overwhelmingly condemned US plans to wage war against
Iraq. Participants demanded that the Australian government keep out of
any war in
Prophets Without Honor: A Requiem for Moral Patriotism By William Strabala and Michael PalecekAlgora Publishing, 2002380 pages, US$23.95Available at <http://Amazon.com>
Prophets Without Honor tells the story of a group of priests and the
BY SUE JOHNSON
[The following is the text of a talk given at a session on the Socialist
Alliance at the International Socialist Organisation's Marxism 2002 conference
held in Melbourne, September 6-8. Sue Johnson spoke on behalf of the
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BY EMMA MURPHY
On September 6, a report was released from a coronial inquest held in May and June into three petrol-sniffing related deaths between 1999-2001 in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands. The coroner found that, in all three cases, "the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The commemorations for the innocent people killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York received saturation television coverage across the globe. However, Israel's atrocities committed against the Palestinian
BY RACHEL COHEN
Drug research and development (R&D) for diseases that disproportionately affect poor people in developing countries is at a virtual standstill.
According to a study by Patrice Trouiller and colleagues, soon to be published in the
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