Indian court upholds Bhopal charges
On August 28, an Indian court rejected the United States government's push to reduce culpable homicide charges against former Union Carbide chairperson, Warren Anderson. In 1984, a gas leak at the US company's
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BY ROBERT FISK
KABUL — In Afghanistan, it is possible to go from hell to hell. The first circle of hell is the "waiting area", the faeces-encrusted dustbowl in which 60,000 Afghans rot along their frontier with Pakistan at Chaman — a
BY JODY BETZEIN
MELBOURNE
— Three thousand people turned out on August 30 for a rally outside the
State Library organised by the Melbourne Refugee Action Collective (RAC)
to demand freedom for refugees.
The very youthful crowd marched
BY NICOLE HILDER
WOLLONGONG — On August 22 it was announced that Sandon Point was
named in the Australian Council of National Trusts' Endangered Places List
2002. ACNT chairperson Simon Molesworth said “the key threats to these
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Dinner raises $1500
PERTH — Around 150 people gathered at the State School Teachers Union hall to attend the a dinner to raise funds for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly on August 24. Greetings were heard from SSTU organiser Michelle White, Socialist Alliance
BY JIM GREEN
The Australian government is attracting international condemnation for playing a spoiling role at the United Nations-organised World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
The Australian delegation of 50 people is led by
BY CLAUDIA QUINNELL
Once again, higher education has come under attack, this time through federal education minister Brendan Nelson's "Higher Education at the Crossroads" review. The review claims to take stock of how far the higher education
BY EVA CHENG
Until July 31, the latest official statistics reported that the United States last year suffered only one quarter of negative GDP growth. But on that day, revised figures — based on more comprehensive data — revealed that the
BY PIP HINMAN
In the early
hours of August 26, activists from the We Are All Boat People group decorated
statues around the city in barbed wire, Tampa sashes and black armbands.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria at the Queen Victoria Building
Abortion
The August 21 passage through ACT parliament of legislation to decriminalise abortion is a welcome development. Its scope makes it a first in Australia. Not only does the law repeal Â鶹´«Ã½ 44-46 of the criminal code (which had made
As supporters of refugees' rights prepared to mark August 26, the anniversary of the rescue of 433 refugees by the MV Tampa, as Tampa Day to shame the federal government, immigration minister Philip Ruddock fought back.
On August 24, Ruddock had
BY NICK FREDMAN
What should be the response of workers in the higher education sector towards the Israeli occupation of Palestine? This question has been posed over the last several months by a petition circulated by two Australian academics
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