SYDNEY — On August 24, anti-corporate clowns will descend on Sydney's police headquarters, bearing a message for assistant police commissioner Bob Waites. On August 18, Waites decided to close the Opera House forecourt and the Botanical Gardens to
639
Alex Miller
According to an August 11 press release issued by the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), police figures show that religious hate crimes in London, targeted primarily at the Muslim community, have risen by almost 700% compared to 2004 in
Kerryn Smith
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq last year, told a conference call on August 16 that a gradual withdrawal of US troops was "not soon enough".
According to the August 17 Los Angeles Times, Sheehan urged an
Alex Miller
Eyewitness reports and CCTV footage leaked to Independent Television News (ITN) have contradicted initial police reports about the shooting to death on July 22 of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes.
Sir Ian Blair, the
The following open letter, slightly abridged, was faxed by Villawood detainees to a refugee supporter on August 18. Authorities there prevented them from faxing it to the media.
We, detainees of Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, have seen the
HOBART — August 19 protest against uranium mining in Australia, organised by the socialist youth organisation Resistance. Many passing motorists honked their horns in agreement with the protesters' signs.
Photo by Alex Bainbridge
From Green
Norm Dixon
For more than eight months, rich Western governments have refused to respond to successively more urgent appeals by aid agencies and the United Nations for emergency assistance to avert mass starvation in the drought-ravaged Sahel region
'A voice for the voiceless' — former Nauru detainee
Sarah Stephen
Ghulam Haider, a 25-year-old Hazara from Afghanistan, fled from the Taliban and sought refuge in Australia. As punishment, he spent three years in the tropical hell of Nauru
Farida Iqbal
Thought voluntary student unionism was bad enough? Education minister Brendan Nelson has another nasty attack on education up his sleeve — RQF, or Research Quality Framework, which is designed to monitor the "quality" and "impact" of
Owen Richards
We're crammed into a small kitchen, maybe three by four metres, with blue concrete walls. Lining the walls are shelves stocked with kitchen basics — string bags of potatoes, garlic cloves, carrots, pumpkins and melons. There's a
Peter McGregor, lecturer in Media and Social Studies at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), took his redundancy on August 11 rather than, as he put it, "continue giving credibility to an institution that has adjusted its standards to fit Howard's
Beyond Chutzpah, the new book by Jewish-American anti-Zionist Norman Finkelstein, on the misuse of anti-Semitism by Zionism, has been blacklisted by a number of bookstores in the US. The book provides a critical analysis of pro-Zionist Harvard law
- Previous page
- Page 2
- Next page