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BY OSCAR JUKES & RUTH RATCLIFFE DARWIN — More than 100 people attended a public meeting organised by the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory on August 5. Speakers at the meeting agreed that the Daly River faces the same fate as the
BY ALISON DELLIT "So why should I be here protesting, when the nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 41 years before I was born?", Duncun Meerding asked the 130 protesters gathered in Hobart on August 9. "I may not have lived through that war, but
TAFE fees outrage I refer to the article in the August 4 Sydney Morning Herald which claims that the disadvantaged will be guaranteed free TAFE study. Unfortunately, this is not yet the case. While students and teachers will be pleased if the
BY DOUG LORIMER With US public support for the occupation of Iraq evaporating as the death toll among US soldiers continues to rise, due to persistent Iraqi guerrilla attacks, Washington is seeking more countries to participate in the occupation.
Action needed to stop nuclear threat ADELAIDE — Eighty people attended a meeting on August 3 to mark the anniversary of the US atom-bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The meeting was addressed by David Palmer,
BY NICK EVERETT SYDNEY - On August 18, a special meeting of the Walk Against the War Coalition, which organised the 500,000-strong anti-war rally on February 16, will be held to debate a proposition from former Labor senator Bruce Childs and
BY SARAH STEPHEN Earlier this year, clinical psychologist Zachary Steel released a report describing children's experience of detention as a "living nightmare". It found unprecedented rates of mental illness among young asylum seekers: among the 22
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK BRISBANE — On August 8, 300 protesters defied rain to hear Aboriginal leaders and union representatives launch the stolen wages postcard campaign. Chair of the rally, 4AAA Aboriginal community radio manager Tiger Bayles set
Students protest fee hike SYDNEY — On August 5, 100 students protested against the Sydney University Senate's decision last month to approve a 30% across-the-board tuition fee increases, even though legislation that would allow such a fee hike
MELBOURNE — What could top being Australia's official musical representative at East Timor's massive independence concert in May last year? The members of the seven-piece funk, ska and reggae band the Dili Allstars have the answer: being asked to
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN The United States and Australia are moving closer to restoring full military cooperation with Indonesia, including with the discredited Kopassus special operations unit of the Indonesian armed forces (TNI). In July, the
BY ADAM MACLEAN Denied funding by the federal Coalition government to adequately sustain the national broadcaster for the next three years, Australian Broadcasting Corporation management on August 5 announced funding cuts of $26.1 million to