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Labor allows jailing of forest activist

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Forest activist Neil Smith, known as "Hector the Protector" for his role in the 1998 campaign to save forest around Mother Cummings Peak in northern Tasmania, faces jail for refusing to pay a $5000 fine. Smith told

Write On: Letters to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly

Bill Game replies As a show of evenhandedness, it would have been nice to be afforded the same opportunity by Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly (issue #549) to contribute my thoughts on the present [WA CEPU/ETU] election bearing in mind I am held in high regard by

Writers' festival goes beyond 'the storm'

BY KAREN FLETCHER MELBOURNE — The 2003 Melbourne Writers Festival will open on August 21 with a keynote address by Tariq Ali, the radical London-based author of the anti-imperialist bestseller The Clash of Fundamentalisms. Ali's address, "War,

NEW ZEALAND: 'Self-determination for West Papua!'

BY LEX WINDSOR AUCKLAND — The international solidarity movement for West Papua met in Otara, Tamaki Makaurau, on August 8-10. The gathering called on the government leaders who constitute the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to remember the unresolved