BY ALISON DELLIT
On October 13,
as the news of the mass murder in Bali spread across Australia, 45,000
people marched through Melbourne's streets in order to prevent the loss
of thousands more lives in a war on Iraq.
Innocent people
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BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE An angry crowd of staff and students confronted Newcastle University vice-chancellor Roger Holmes on October 16 as he attempted to justify plans to close the Huxley Library and replace it with an electronic
BY IGGY KIM
The campaign to free Australian resident academic Lesley McCulloch
from detention in Indonesia has been boosted by the National Tertiary Education
Industry Union (NTEU).
The union's Tasmanian division donated $1000 to help
One Man in his TimeBy Hans PostOtford Press, 2002$31.77Order at <http://www.otfordpress.com.au/>
REVIEW BY PETER McGREGOR
Hans Post's One Man in his Time is an amazing and inspiring story. It's a historically significant autobiography
BY EVA CHENG
Despite rampant vote rigging, Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf failed to achieve a majority in the country's National Assembly (lower house) election on October 10. The election just managed to beat the three-year deadline
BY NORM DIXON
Amiri Baraka — a famous African-American poet and political activist who, as LeRoi Jones, wrote the classic book Blues People in the 1960s — is under attack for a poem he wrote about the 9/11 attacks, titled "Somebody Blew Up
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only SuperpowerBy William BlumZed Books, 2002308 pages, $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Dossier season is upon us it seems. British Prime Minister Tony Blair's September 24 dossier on Iraq was spectacularly
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA As of October 18, the Indonesian police investigating the terrorist bombing of the Sari night club on October 12 which killed nearly 200 foreign tourists and Indonesian workers have not announced any clear
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Although most leaders of the Arab countries claim to support for the Palestinian national liberation struggle, a recent report by the 22-member Arab League indicates that this commitment is primarily verbal.
The October 15 Jordan
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY On October 14, a meeting of the Palm Sunday Committee agreed to establish a new coalition of Sydney anti-war groups to organise a "walk against the war" on November 30 around the slogans "No war on Iraq! No Australian
BY MAURICE FARRELL
SYDNEY Reporting on its 2002 readership survey, the October 10
Sydney Star Observer stated that the gay and lesbian market remains
buoyant, despite the difficulties faced this year by peak event-based community
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
SYDNEY The 35th anniversary of the death of Ernesto Che Guevara was marked with a seminar, entitled "Latin America's struggle for justice". More than 100 people participated.
The gathering was initiated by Committees in
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