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Turkey leads in persecution At least 45 journalists were detained in Turkey in March, according to the Journalists' Union of Turkey (TGS). "The number of journalists taken into custody was 45, those attacked and beaten numbered eight, 114
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has welcomed a report which criticises the procedure for collecting statistics on mine safety. Review of Mining in NSW, released on April 9, makes a number of recommendations on how to improve mine
By Peter Boyle After a few months of media-driven celebrity last year, Pauline Hanson, the independent member for Oxley, seemed to drop from the limelight. But now she's back on the front pages as she tours the country promoting her new party,
Meeting discusses political crisis in Indonesia By Janet Parker SYDNEY — "The Suharto regime is entering a phase of political crisis", began a lecture delivered by Max Lane to an audience of more than 100 people at Sydney University on
Blackness Blackness there is only Blackness.I can see, hear, feel, sense nothing,there is nothing to sense. It changes to grey.Now there are shapes, signs of others,but I can't see them — senses are so dulled. Now if I try I can see light
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Sri Lankan left leaders still held By Jean Dupont Three leaders of Sri Lanka's New Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) have been detained by police in connection with an arms cache police claim to have discovered in a building housing a health
ANKE HINTJENS recently returned from a visit to Goma in rebel-held eastern Zaire. I last visited Goma in 1993. This time I felt the difference immediately. Before, we didn't dare move around. There were roadblocks everywhere, with soldiers demanding
Left on line Free Roisin McAliskey! — Roisin is imprisoned in Holloway Prison, London, without formal charges and without bail. She awaiting a decision by the German government to seek her extradition. She is pregnant and has been
By Peter McGregor This article was written as a reply to a feature article by Tony Stephens in the April 10 Sydney Morning Herald. The Herald declined to publish it. Peter McGregor is one of the curators of Viet Nam Voices and a lecturer at the