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Museworthy: Spine-Scar

Museworthy: Spine-Scar Light comes inthrough darkness All yesterday's shedshave fallen Living things squatin destruction's beauty Opening their backsto pain BY MTC CRONIN MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the most

FIJI: Qarase defies constitution

BY MICHELLE BREAR SUVA — Since the flawed August 2001 general election, which legitimised and formalised the 2000 military overthrow of the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has refused to honour

Jarring comment on a fraught world

The Great Aussie ScreamPaul BuckberryOrder at <http://www.buckberry.com> REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE The Great Aussie Scream is like nothing that I have ever heard before and definitely gets full marks for creativity. The music defies

Unions and the war in Palestine

Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, mining and energy division, Tony Maher, Ramallah, SUE BOLTON"> Unions and the war in Palestine Unions and the war in Palestine   BY SUE BOLTON Israel’s brutal

Memorial Service for Connie Frazer

A memorial service for poet, feminist and Democratic Socialist Party member Connie Frazer (1925-2002) will be held at 1pm on May 25, at the Box Factory, 59 Regent Street South, Adelaide. All welcome. For more information phone Leslie on

ISRAEL: Large Tel Aviv rally calls for troop pullout

Tens of thousands rallied in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on May 11 to call for the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from the Occupied Territories. Police estimated the crowd at about 60,000, while organisers — Peace Now — put the figure at

Colour me khaki: sick and poor pay for repression

BY ALISON DELLIT "Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The rich stay healthy, the sick stay poor" — U2's 1988 song God Part II contains a pretty good summary of the Howard government's seventh budget, delivered on May 14.

NSW ALP conference: a test for Labor for Refugees

BY MARGARET GLEESON Labor for Refugees was formed in NSW at the end of 2001, giving expression to the frustration of ordinary ALP members who were increasingly disgusted at the party's anti-refugee policies. One of the main aims of the group has

'Books not bombs!', students demand

BY AMY McDONELL On May 13, the day before the federal government's budget was delivered, students mobilised around the country to demand more funds for education and social services. The national day of action was called by the National

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Greenpeace highlights illegal logging

BY JIM GREEN Greenpeace activists blocked the export of illegally logged timber from the Kiunga-Aiambak logging project in western Papua New Guinea on March 12. Volunteers locked themselves onto a barge carrying the timber and also obstructed the

Stop the charcoal factory!

BY BRETT MULLER On May 1, NSW planning minister Andrew Refshauge approved Australian Silicon Ltd's proposed development of a charcoal factory at Mogo, on the NSW south coast. The department received more than 1530 submissions from 1220

Loose cannons

Always read the fine print "Asia's poor countries briefly thought they had hit the jackpot on Saturday when Japan promised a staggering $500 billion to a regional poverty reduction fund. Speaking in Japanese to an annual meeting of the Asian