BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The trials of refugees charged with involvement in August's protest at the Woomera detention camp will begin on December 18, and continue daily through January. The charged refugees are being held in the Adelaide Remand
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BY MERRILYN TREASURE
SYDNEY — Having won liberation after 25 years of struggle, the East Timorese people's first challenge is to defend their right to freedom, East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao told 500 people at a "Peace and Justice in East
A SHORT STORY BY RACHEL LAREDNI
Watch them travel in metallic wombs, speeding along veins of the city weaving their way through metal and concrete into the heart of the grand Mecca of capitalism. Tidy men of smooth shaven faces absorbed in the lies
Seizing on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) president Chen Shui-bian's pledge to stop the construction of Taiwan's controversial fourth nuclear power plant, the former ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party is leading a major drive to unseat Chen from the
BY JIM MCILROY
DILI — Street stallholders selling food and drinks on the seafront near the centre of the city here faced an attempt to forcibly evict them from their established positions on November 3, as the United Nations Transitional
BY GIANNI RIGACCI
It is incontestable that the first half of the 1970s represented a cleavage in the evolution of the world economy: we then entered into what some economists defined as a long wave of stagnation. Nonetheless, since about the
BY JIM GREEN
The federal Coalition government is planning a wrecking operation at an international climate change conference at the Hague from November 13-24.
The conference — formally known as the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP6) to the
Some 400,000 people converged on the capital of Indonesia's nothernmost province of Aceh, Banda Aceh, on November 10 for a two-day independence rally, despite scores of killings by security forces trying to prevent demonstrators attending.
The
Richest man is the poor's best hope
Odd as it may seem, it took the richest man in the world to remind us that when most of the world's population lives on the edge of extinction, it mocks the rosy predictions for our common future on a wired
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Around 200 Transport Workers Union (TWU) members and their families attended a combined protest and service of remembrance outside NSW parliament on November 3. The action was to highlight the number of deaths in the
Bougainville struggle marked
CANBERRA — An enjoyable and informative "politics in the pub" was held at the Old Canberra Inn on November 5 (Guy Fawkes Day) to commemorate the 1989 blowing up of pylons carrying power lines to the Bougainville
More than 100 people gathered at Granville Town Hall in Sydney's western suburbs on November 10 to celebrate the 83rd anniversary of the Russian October 1917 Revolution. The event was organised by the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and the
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