BY ALLEN JENNINGS
The May 26 election of Alvaro Uribe Velez as Colombia's next president represents a watershed in both Colombia's and the United States' approach to the country's spiralling discontent and four decades of armed insurgency.
The
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
The government is responsible for “institutional child abuse”, according
to a May report by two Melbourne organisations — the Catholic Commission
for Justice Development and Peace (CCJDP) and the Western Young People's
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART — "The small town community of Ranelagh has stood its ground at the commission hearing into the proposed Southwood woodchip mill", local activist Peter Cahill told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. Forestry Tasmania is planning to build
BY MAX LANE
A major theme of the ceremony that took place in Dili on May 20 to proclaim the independence of East Timor was that the three-year period of United Nations transitional administration was a great success. However, East Timor has been
REVIEW BY IGGY KIM
Spinning Into ButterWritten by Rebecca GilmanDirected by Adam CookEnsemble Theatre, SydneyMay 17-June 29
US playwright Rebecca Gilman's feted work, Spinning Into Butter, is an unabashed self-examination of racial prejudice in
[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing
 June 23 has been chosen as a national day of action for refugees,
a protest against the Australian government's inhumane policy of mandatory
detention [of asylum seekers]. We demand that the detention camps be closed,
and that refugees be
BY PIP HINMAN
Centacare, a religious welfare group which met with the United Nations teams inspecting South Australia's Woomera detention centre on May 30, said the teams were shocked at what they saw. Dale West from Centacare told the ABC that
BY JOE CRAIG
DUBLIN — In late March, Sinn Fein launched its campaign for the May
17 Irish general election with a rally in Dublin's Gresham Hotel, at the
same time as the Irish Labour Party was holding its conference.
While Sinn Fein was keen
[On May 31, Greens Senator Bob Brown told ABC radio that he would consider
helping the government to sell the remaining third of Telstra if the government
was prepared to end old growth logging. Later that day, a press statement
from Brown's
Sorry Day
BRISBANE — Around 2000 people walked across the Goodwill Bridge to a festival
in Musgrave Park to mark National Sorry Day 2002 on May 26, condemning
past governmentsÂ’ forcible removal of Indigenous children from their
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