On March 24-28, Sydney will host one of the most significant gatherings of left-wing leaders from Asia and the Pacific in some years. The Third Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference is being attended by activists from the Philippines to Indonesia, from
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Katelyn Mountford
If you followed only the "news" of the mainstream media in recent weeks, you might have been forgiven for assuming that the war on Iraq was over. Only one story was deemed important enough by the news editors of the Fairfax and
Allen Myers, Phnom Penh
The Cambodian government is under pressure to allow a controversial trial of the anti-HIV drug tenofovir. A planned trial of the drug was banned by Prime Minister Hun Sen last August after vocal protests by sex workers, whom
Members of the Gana and Gwi bushmen tribes of the Kalahari used the March 8-12 World Tourism Fair in Berlin to launch a boycott call. The Gana and Gwi are calling for a moratorium on tourist development in the Kalahiri Game Reserve until they are
A gay refugee from Iran is currently being held in South Australia's Baxter detention centre. He is applying for a bridging visa and waiting for his appeal to be heard by the High Court.
The detainee's name cannot be made public, but two Adelaide
I do not knowwhat will happen after I die.I do not want to know.But I would like the Potter to make a whistlefrom the clay of my throat.May this whistle fall into the handsof a cheeky and naughty childand the child to blow hard on the whistle
Norman Brewer, Sydney
"On the hottest day last month, the [NSW] minister responsible for Redfern, Frank Sartor, walked into the offices of the Aboriginal Housing Company [AHC] and dropped a bombshell: he didn't want any Aboriginal housing on the
By Linda Waldron, Melbourne
Young Somali man Hussein Farah, who was at the centre of protests in Footscray in November 2003 against police racism and violence, was acquitted in the Sunshine Magistrates Court on March 4 of charges of resisting
MELBOURNE — Jack Thomas, a 31-year-old former taxi driver facing charges under the federal government's "anti-terrorism laws", won a significant victory on March 15 when the prosecution's appeal against Thomas's bail was thrown out of court. Thomas
In a major victory for the international anti-war movement, on March 15 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, one of the staunchest supporters of the US-led occupation of Iraq, announced that he would begin withdrawing Italy's combat troops from
On March 19, 22 Georgetown University students entered their sixth day of hunger strike, demanding the university pays all its workers a living wage. Under university regulations, subcontracted janitors must be paid US$8.50 an hour. One janitor,
Barry Healy
The generation of anti-racist activists that came of age in the Redfern struggles at the end of the 1960s and early '70s have lost one of their stalwarts with the passing of Bob Bellear on March 16. Bellear was a true battler, one who
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