BY LESLIE RICHMOND & EMMA MURPHY
ADELAIDE — Around 2000 people attended a November 30 anti-war protest, representing a broad cross-section of Australians. Contingents had been organised by Quakers, the Greens, the Construction, Forestry, Mining
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When the ideologists of imperialism in the 1950s declared "the
BY KENNY McEWAN
Wasilli Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 to a wealthy merchant family. He could have become the law professor that he trained to be. Had he done so, he would probably have disappeared into obscurity. Instead, his name has become
BY
MATT MACKAY
SORRENTO, Victoria Hundreds of angry Mornington Peninsula residents
brought their concerns to the city on November 1, holding a rally at the
steps of the State Library to protest at the state government's and Melbourne
On November 25, the trials of Australian-based, British-born academic Lesley McCulloch and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler began in Aceh. They are being tried for visa violations, after the prosecution failed to make espionage charges stick. McCulloch is a
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — "Newspapers often categorise people into moderates and extremists. You are the moderates, the government are the extremists", declared John Pilger, addressing an anti-war rally in Sydney on November 30.. The Australian
A furore has broken out in mainstream papers and on radio talk-back programs about the a line of clothing and "lifestyle accessories" for young girls. Released by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, the twin actors who first appeared on the TV program Full
BY JIM GREEN
The fracture, and subsequent sinking, of the oil tanker Prestige off the Spanish coast has created a major environmental disaster, brought the region's fishing industry to a standstill and put the spotlight on the controversial
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
On November 14, Argentina gained the status of a financial delinquent when it defaulted on its repayments to the World Bank. While in Washington, Argentina's economy minister Roberto Lavagna delivered the news that Argentina
BY ALISON DELLIT
On November 20, NSW's largest selling tabloid, the Daily Telegraph, screamed "Direct threat" on its front cover. Prominently displayed above the headline was a quote from acting federal attorney-general Chris Ellison: "The
BY
RENFREY CLARKE
It is astonishing what the bourgeoisie will let slip when they're
talking to one another and don't think we're listening! In light of federal
trade minister Mark Vaile's ludicrous claims that the people who protested
BY PHIL DOYLE
You see them on street corners everywhere in the city, recognisable as people trying to get themselves out of a rut; but Big Issue vendors in Melbourne have discovered that their bosses are, well, just like any other boss.
The Big
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