594

Lizzie Nagy& Kylie Moon The Senate sat an extra day on August 13 to enable the passage of the Marriage Amendment Act, which declares that marriages between same-sex couples in other countries will not be legally recognised as such in Australia.
Control RoomDirected by Jehane Noujaim83 minutes Distributed in Australia by Rialto Entertainment REVIEWED BY VANNESSA HEARMAN Control Room is a moving account of life inside the Qatar-based Aljazeera satellite television station, during the
BY SARAH STEPHEN If you try to recall the Coalition government's most outrageous attacks on asylum seekers, chances are you would recall the Tampa Affair, the children overboard incident, and the isolated, madness-inducing, detention centres. But
James Vassilopoulos Is this the way to "celebrate humanity": to evict Roma families from where they have been living for 30 years in order to build car parks? To allow poor safety to claim the lives of 13 workers? To launch a major attack on civil
Luke Fomiatti, Sydney UWS students declared victory after the University of Western Sydney Board of Trustees voted against increasing HECS fees on August 12. With only two days' notice, 100 students blockaded the secret meeting, which was called
Ben Cavalli& Fred Fuentes, Perth The highest decision making body of academics at University of Western Australia (UWA), the academic board, narrowly voted on August 11 to recommend that the UWA senate reject the current proposal to introduce
Pip Hinman, Sydney "The August 8 statement by 43 former service chiefs and diplomats, accusing PM John Howard of lying about the reasons for Australia going to war on Iraq, underlines what most Australians already know", Anna Samson from Sydney's
I have just spent three months living in Venezuela, an oil-rich Third World country with a population of 26 million, of whom 80% live on or below the poverty line. But there are exciting events taking place in this country. In 1998, left-wing
REVIEW BY JESS MELVIN The CorporationDirected by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.Written by Joel Bakan, with narration written by Harold Crooks and Mark Achbar.Produced by Big Picture Media CorporationReleased by Zeitgeist Films.145 minutes. The
One of the most famous writings in the history of socialism is the Junius Pamphlet, written by German socialist Rosa Luxemburg in 1915 while she was in prison for opposing the first world war. Obviously, many things have changed in the world
Sarah Stephen On August 6, the High Court ruled that the federal government has the legal power to detain failed asylum seekers indefinitely — potentially for the rest of their lives. In making its decision, the High Court considered the
In 2000, 29% of people in the US failed to fill a prescription because they couldn't afford to. In 2001, the nine largest pharmaceutical companies raked in US$30.6 billion in profits. The five most highly paid drug company executives pocketed