Sarah Stephen
Plans are underway for a national convergence on Canberra on November 16, the first sitting day of federal parliament since the October 9 federal election returned the Coalition to government.
The convergence is a joint initiative
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REVIEW BY JESS MELVIN
The Resistible Rise of Arturo UiA play by Bertolt BrechtDirected by Erin ThomasPACT Theatre, Erskineville, Sydney. October 7-30Tickets $24/$18, bookings (02) 9699 344Concession tickets available for Green Left Weekly readers.
Doug Lorimer
The Los Angeles Times has reported that US officials have told it the Bush administration has decided to delay a major offensive to recapture rebel Iraqi cities until after the November 2 US presidential election.
A week earlier,
PM John Howard now claims a mandate for a raft of reactionary measures that he didn't even mention during the federal election campaign.
Before polling it was all about security, trust and "rewards". Just four days after the election, treasurer
REVIEW BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East TimorBy Clinton FernandesScribe Publications, Melbourne 2004138 pages
Clinton Fernandes, a Melbourne-based writer on politics and international
I have a friend who, along with his family, actively opposes the Howard government's iniquitous policies — the ones that throw asylum seekers in concentration camps and turn Australians into US lap dogs, making us targets for acts of retaliation.
Jess Melvin, Sydney
The South-East Asian department at the University of Sydney will cease to exist in 2006 unless students and staff can stop its closure.
Indonesian language, Thai language and South-East Asian history and politics subjects are
Sarah Stephen
On October 14, the immigration department deported MK, an Iranian Christian, from the Baxter detention centre in South Australia. Australia is the only country that deports asylum seekers to Iran.
"Immigration minister [Amanda]
Justin Podur
The Venezuelan government, under President Hugo Chavez, has created "missions" to provide services to Venezuela's population. Perhaps the most well-known of the missions is Mission Robinson, which has brought adult literacy programs to
Chris Slee
Sri Lanka's clothing industry, which directly employs 340,000 workers and indirectly employs another million, faces a "sudden collapse" when the Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) expires next year, according to Kalani Subasinghe, a staff
Doug Lorimer
"If the pre-election opinion polls in Australia were anything to go by, Mr Howard was going to be punished by the electorate for his support of Mr Bush in Iraq. But when it actually came to voting, Australians preferred Mr Howard's
Sarah Stephen
In the days following the re-election of the Coalition government, the corporate press crowed about Howard's fresh mandate for reform. The October 11 Australian Financial Review editorial argued that PM John Howard "now has a thumping
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