Stella Simmering
Guilty until proven innocent
The second draft of the Crimes Amendment Bill (Victoria) gives police the power to obtain name and address from the public on demand. If a person refuses, s/he is guilty of a summary offence
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"I think in the longer term if there is a clear view that the people of Australia want change, and that change is sensible and there is overwhelming community support for it, I'm sure all political parties in the end will recognise that
Prime Minister Keating's New Visions for Australia speech at the Evatt Foundation annual dinner on April 28 has been hailed as a historic milestone in Australia's political development. Others say Keating has sucked the content from the so-called
Middle East talks resume
By Miriam Tramer
The Middle East Peace talks resumed in Washington on April 27. Green Left Weekly spoke to Israeli commentator Amos Wollin on the possible outcome.
Wollin said that, under pressure from the
For sale: the right to pollute?
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Companies may be able to buy and sell the right to pollute the environment in the future, if federal environment minister Ros Kelly has her way.
According to the
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti's handling of the Bougainville crisis has come under heavy fire from his own foreign affairs minister, John Kaputin.
The criticisms were contained in a letter Kaputin sent from Brussels, which was
By Ignatius Kim
When the Solomon Islands Development Trust (SIDT) was founded in 1981 to inform rural Solomon Islanders about issues relating to resource development, it found that lecture-style meetings aroused little enthusiasm in the
Cuba fights neuritis outbreak
HAVANA — The Cuban daily Granma on April 27 lashed out at a foreign media disinformation campaign around the outbreak of optic neuritis on the island.
Optic neuritis is a vision-impairing disease. It was
MARI ALKATIRI is a senior member of the Fretilin Central Committee in exile. He was interviewed in Sydney for Green Left Weekly by Max Lane.
Could you tell us why you are visiting Australia?
I have received a mandate from the leadership
Refugee family denied asylum
By Catherine Brown
A Romany refugee family, denied asylum by the Cologne city council (led by the Social Democrats), is now in hiding to avoid forced deportation to Macedonia. Asylum was denied on the basis
Victorian law on indefinite imprisonment
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — Harsh new sentencing legislation was passed by Victoria's parliament on April 29, a week after its introduction by state attorney general Jan Wade. The law provides for
In a country town, ANN MATHESON finds that little changes — especially the things that should change.
After a lifetime of city newsrooms, vying for premium parking spaces, fighting deadlines and jostling for service, I was sure that if I
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