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Red flag is raised in Darwin

BY GARY MEYERHOFF DARWIN — With counting completed in the August 18 Northern Territory elections, the Socialist Alliance's Peter Johnston, a veteran anti-racism campaigner, led the charge with 4.5% of the vote in Fannie Bay, an excellent result,

Race & class in the US: Bush threatens to boycott World Conference Against Racism

SAN FRANCISCO - The New York Times, the most authoritative newspaper in the United States, ran a lead editorial on the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, taking place in Durban, South Africa, from August 28 to September 7. The headline

Bows, bees and surf skis illegal at CHOGM protests

BY TIM STEWART In case you were wondering what to bring along to the protests outside the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane on October 6, the Queensland goverment has issued a list of prohibited items under special police powers

COLOMBIA: Indigenous people beat Big Oil

The news long awaited by Colombia's U'wa tribe and its thousands of supporters around the world has finally arrived: the Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) has announced that it has failed to find oil at the Gibraltar 1 well site on the

Fifteen countries hold key to saving world's forests

LONDON — Efforts to save the world's last, critically important forests should initially focus on just a handful of countries, a new report has found. A unique satellite-based survey of the planet's remaining unbroken forests, which include virgin,

Drug summit proposes health-based solutions

BY GRANT COLEMAN PERTH — After months of media hysteria and political point-scoring, a community drug summit has come out in support of health-based solutions for the treatment of heroin use. Despite a fairly narrow agenda, the 100 delegates,

Museworthy: Bestseller

It was a very quiet countryWhere I livedThe president saidWhat to be governed byIf not a lawCan you see them standing in lineFor love My friends and neighboursMade it clear to meThat they enter these places secretlyTheir homesBut will usually come

Looking out: Corporate pimps

Corporate pimps "I detest that if you come from a certain culture somebody is going to publish your [work]. When you apply that kind of standard, it can become a whorehouse of distorted mirrors." — Jimmy Santiago Baca. Jimmy Santiago Baca's

State schools crumbling, report reveals

BY KATHY NEWNAM ADELAIDE — At least 50 schools in the state are in a dire situation, with broken windows, leaking roofs, inadequate space and determined neglect by the education department, according to a new investigation into South Australia's

Carr tries to escape protests

BY STUART MARTIN WOLLONGONG — Labor Premier Bob Carr has studiously avoided Wollongong since June 27, when a mass meeting of Illawarra workers declared that they would demonstrate outside his next appearance in protest against his government's

Socialists to make a splash

BY LISA LINES ADELAIDE — While students at the University of Adelaide will note the usual suspects — Labor left, Labor right, "Independents", Liberals — running for office in elections to the students' association and union, the first

'It's time' all right

BY ALISON DELLIT According to Prime Minister John Howard, the defeat of the Country Liberal Party in the August 18 Northern Territory election was governed by the "It's time" factor. But why NT residents set the "it's time" alarm clock for 26 years