The Rising: Ballad of Mangal PandeyDirected by Ketan MehtaStarring Aamir Khan, Toby Stephens, Rani Mukherjee, Amisha Patel and Coral BeedScreening nationally at selected cinemas
REVIEW BY RAJIV RAWAT
A strange North American silence seems to have
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On September 8, at Europe's largest coal port in Rotterdam, the Greenpeace ship Argus blocked cranes from unloading coal imported from South Africa, the US, Indonesia and Australia. Greenpeace is demanding that European governments immediately cease
Stan Goff
I haven't been sure how to respond to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, or its coincidence with the almost 1000 Iraqis who were killed during a panic stampede when a bridge suffered a structural failure. I go back and forth, between
Helen Masterman-Smith, Adelaide
A large crowd gathered at the Adelaide Town Hall on September 2 to hear speakers on the impact on women of the Howard government's planned welfare and workplace changes.
Elspeth McInnes of the National Council of
A new pharmaceutical product to treat cancer, LeokoCIM, has received successful preliminary results in 24 hospitals throughout Cuba, reported the Prensa Latina news service on September 5. Trials will conclude at the end of the year and patents for
While the Coalition federal government is hell bent on pandering to big business's agenda, it is undermining the quality of life of every Australian. The new industrial relations legislation, and specifically individual contracts, which are already
James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne
A meeting of 1700 union delegates on September 7 voted unanimously for a "mass mobilisation of Victorian workers" on the national community day of protest on November 15. The meeting was organised by the Victorian
Zygielbojm's Death — Follows the search for information about Szmul Zygielbojm, charismatic leader of the Jewish Socialist Bund Party in Poland who was active in the Jewish underground after the Germans invaded in 1939. SBS, Friday, September 16,
Lawrence Gibbons
Ten years ago last month, the first edition of the City Hub hit the streets of Sydney. The headline on my first page three editorial read: "Toss a flag on the barbie".
I encouraged readers to burn Indonesian flags in defiance of
Lisa Macdonald, Sydney
Both Labor and Liberal are going into the September 17 NSW by-elections in Maroubra, Macquarie Fields and Marrickville with the lowest public credibility for many years.
In Marrickville, the Liberals are not even standing,
Dick Nichols
It's the lying rodent's favourite statistic in the "battle of ideas" over his government's new industrial relations legislation: on average, real wages have risen 12 times more in the last nine years of the John Howard government (14%)
Dean Parker, Auckland
According to a Herald-DigiPoll poll, released on September 9, the incumbent Labour government of Prime Minister Helen Clark and the opposition National Party are running neck and neck in the lead-up to the September 17 New
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