BY JOHN PILGER
One of my first assignments as a young reporter in Sydney was to go to the airport and ask famous people arriving from overseas what they thought of Australia. There was a checklist; our beer and beaches were near the top, followed
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BY KEEANGA-YAHMATTA TAYLOR
Jamil al Amin, the former 1960s Black Power leader known as H. Rap Brown, is on trial for his life in Atlanta. Al Amin is accused of shooting two Fulton County sheriff's deputies, killing one.
Prosecutors claim that al
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — Refugee rights campaigners across the world have protested
against the Australian governmentÂ’s refugee policy. In Auckland, New Zealand
on January 26, activists picketed the Australian consulate. A similar picket
is
BY SARAH STEPHEN
As international outrage and Australian protests grow, the federal Coalition government is increasingly defensive about the horrific impact of it's refugee policy. The more people who join protests now, the greater the possibility
Lie
SBS TV has just shown a documentary on General Douglas MacArthur which referred to the atom bomb as ending World War II. That statement is perhaps the worst lie inflicted on humanity (because it's so widely believed): that we had to burn 64,602
BY PATRICK BOND
HARARE — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who led the national liberation fighters to win independence from the white Rhodesian colonists in 1980, is facing a presidential vote in March. His main opponent is the Movement for
The following call for a national student mobilisation during the January 31-February 4 meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) was issued by Students for Global Justice. It has been slightly abridged.
Every year, 1000 top business leaders come
and ain't I a woman: Abortion access for all women
Many believe the myth that abortion is easily accessible to all women in Australia. It is not. For women living in rural areas, abortion is extremely expensive and disruptive. In Queensland,
Museworthy: The Wept
"the last edge of the knife" — Pablo Nerudathe persuasiveness of the shade in Summerthe judgement of the treesthe blue extraordinarythe purple cord joining me to my motherthe all-motheredthe future-lossthe hidden under the
BY LUKE FOMIATTI & MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — “This meeting to discuss war and globalisation occurs against
the backdrop of US President George Bush's 'state of the nation' speech”,
anti-war activist Tara Povey told 60 people at Trades
BY EVA CHENG
Despite being the biggest in the US energy business and seventh biggest among all US firms before its December 2 collapse, Enron had not paid income tax in four of the five years before 2000, according to Citizens for Tax Justice.
BY SIMON BUTLER
SYDNEY — The February 12 refugee rights convergence on Canberra has been given a boost by decisions taken in Sydney, Wollongong and Melbourne to organise buses for activists to the protest.
The socialist youth group Resistance
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