Tim Stewart, Canberra
"We used to have freedom to fish and to swim in our lagoon, but now we have freedom no more", Yat Paol, a visiting activist from Papua New Guinea, told a September 9 forum organised by Aid/Watch and hosted by Greens ACT
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Marg Gleeson
Ever since the shock resignations last month of the NSW Labor government's three top ministers, it has been a turbulent time in state politics.
It started with new premier, Morris Iemma, and then-opposition leader John Brogden
Call to protest Rice-Rumsfeld visit
Emma Murphy, Adelaide
The Rice/Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) has begun organising around the possibility of the inaugural meeting of the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate being
According to a report on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, announced on September 7, Cuba has the lowest infant mortality rate in Latin America — 5.6 deaths per thousand in 2004 — putting it on a par with developed countries. The
Sarah Stephen
The immigration department's website claims that as of August 26 there were 667 people still being held in detention. The department does not include in those figures the 27 asylum seekers remaining on Nauru. Villawood detention
Eva Cheng, Hanoi
Around 100 solidarity and left-wing activists travelled here from some 40 countries on August 31-September 2 to join the 82 million Vietnamese people in celebrating their 60 years of hard-won independence.
Throughout several days
Alex Miller
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) has abandoned its plan to mount a legal challenge to the banning of four of its parliamentarians (MSPs) from the Scottish Parliament for the month of September.
Colin Fox, Frances Curran, Carolyn
Who dies?September 16-18 & 23-25, 8pm
St Luke's Hall, 11 Stanmore Rd, Enmore$22/$15For bookings phone (02) 9747 1402 or email <kineticenergy@iprimus.com>
Sydney's Kinetic Energy Theatre Company is celebrating its 30th birthday by
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