Takver, Melbourne
Anti-nuclear activists have replied to advocates of nuclear power with a comprehensively damning report, "Nuclear power - no solution to climate change". Fifty people attended the launch of the report at Northcote Town Hall on
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Eva Cheng
For the last few decades, Malaysia's capitalist rulers have governed with an iron fist, using the notorious Internal Security Act (ISA) inherited from British colonial rule to jail dissidents without trial and for an indefinite period.
James Balowski, Jakarta
On October 1, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced massive cuts to fuel subsidies. The average cost of domestic fuel rose by
An interim legislative committee in Indiana is considering a bill to prohibit gay men, lesbians and single people from using medical science to help them have a child. Assisted reproduction is defined in the bill as causing pregnancy through means
Max Lane
An eight-month election process for village councils has finished in East Timor. Although the village councils have no power and are primarily vehicles through which local people can articulate their opinions, the elections were contested
Susan Price, Melbourne
On September 30, the National Tertiary Education Union's national council overwhelmingly endorsed a motion to continue to resource a political and industrial campaign that includes building NTEU involvement in the November
Paradise NowDirected by Hani Abu-AssadStarring Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman and Lubna AzabalOpens October 27 at Cinema Nova (Melbourne), Paris Cinema (Fox Studios, Sydney) and Palace Nova (Adelaide).
REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE
"Every day in the
Pip Hinman, Sydney
A public meeting to launch a campaign for a human rights act at the Sydney Town Hall on October 4 attracted 1000 people. Hosted by NewMatilda.com, the meeting heard from a range of people about why they supported the idea of a
Shane Bentley
The biggest protests in the history of New Zealand took place in 1991. The focus of this anger was the plan to introduce anti-union laws as harsh as any in the Western world. Hundreds of thousands of New Zealand workers took to the
The article "Police drop investigation into murder of 13 Arab citizens" in GLW #644 incorrectly stated: "In the first week of the demonstrations, some 100 peaceful demonstrators and 13 Palestinians with Israeli citizenship were killed in Umm el Fahm,
City of the long weary revolutioncity with much bread and no brickscity of dancing torsos and all night communistsof police who read and kiss on dutya place where children form conga linesin liberated palaceswhere millions chanted dancedalong the
Sarah Stephen
In recent years, many families who successfully convinced the immigration department (DIMIA) that they should be released from detention found themselves in a new type of hell living on a bridging visa E (BVE).
This visa denies
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