Fred Fuentes Students are continuing to campaign for the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli troops from Lebanon and Palestine. On August 17, speak-outs and meetings were held on campuses around the country. At the University of Queensland, 120
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'Calming' Baghdad "Iraq, US Forces Raid Sadr City to Calm Baghdad" — Headline on US Bloomberg news service report on an August 7 US-led military attack that set off a two-hour gun battle with supporters of anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.
Liz Denborough Between July 22 and August 3, 40 people ranging from 20 to 75 years' old travelled by bus from Melbourne to Adelaide to Alice Springs and back. Our aim was to become better informed about the secrets and lies of Australia's nuclear
Tibet I read your article "TIBET: China's 'Sky Train'— fast-track to genocide?" by Lynette Dumble and Susanne Menihane (GLW #678). Out of curiosity, did you every consider that people from the West, especially from the "new" world, where natives
Kim Bullimore "The responsibility for the military operation rests on my shoulders as prime minister. I have no intention and do not wish to share this responsibility with another", Israeli PM Ehud Olmert told the Knesset, Israel's parliament. An
UnspeakBy Steven PooleLittle, Brown and Company 2006282 pages, $24.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON "War on terror", "coalition of the willing", "weapons of mass destruction", "surgical strike", welfare and labour market "reform" — these familiar
Kerryn Williams On August 14, the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) bombed the Sencholai children's home in the Mullaithivu district, killing at least 61 Tamil students and injuring hundreds of others. Students from up to 18 schools in the region had been
Marcus Greville, Melbourne In a bruising blow to the Howard government's anti-union laws, striking Amcor workers won an agreement on August 16 in which all legal action against the workers and their union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
Jason Cahill, Brisbane In the wake of his government's messy handling of Queensland's health-care crisis, Labor Premier Peter Beattie, who faces a state election on September 9, has been very keen to divert attention onto his plans for "drought
On August 16, an appeal by the Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) was rejected in court and a January 13, 2003 ruling denying the PSM's right to be registered as a political party was upheld. The two reasons provided by the judge in 2003 were that the
Moscow 1941By Rodric BraithwaiteProfile Books 2006446 pages, £20 REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER When did the tide turn against Hitler's armies in the Second World War? Many would point to the defeat the Nazis suffered at the Battle of Stalingrad in
Louisa Romanous I cannot sit back while the vicious and destructive Israeli attacks on Lebanon are targeting innocent peoples' homes and basic infrastructure. As a mother, I cannot remain silent as observers say that the Geneva Convention —
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