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麻豆传媒 Weekly\'s $250,000 Fighting Fund: No jail for corporate mass killers

I declare a personal interest in this story. In 1976, I worked for a year in a James Hardie factory in Western Australia. We were producing asbestos cement sheets; at that time still a popular building material.

Write On: letters to the edtior

Nuclear solution Zane Alcorn (Write On, GLW #751) appears so overly concerned with avoiding nuclear power that he seems to forget that the real enemy is global warming. Nuclear power already plays a far more important role curtailing emissions

Narnia: kingdom for kids, empire for adults

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Directed by Andrew Adamson
Based on the Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
In cinemas

Ireland: EU treaty rejected

The pro-corporate European Union Lisbon treaty has been rejected by voters in a referendum in the Republic of Ireland, according to a June 13 BBC.co.uk report.

Is Rudd\'s honeymoon over? Let\'s ask Tex Perkins

There has been a lot of speculation in the mainstream media about whether or not Labor PM Kevin Rudd鈥檚 honeymoon with 鈥渢he electorate鈥 (that is media-speak for us) is over.

No sex please, we've "found love"

Sex in the City
Directed by Michael Patrick King
With Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall
In cinemas

Government deports more asylum seekers, calls inquiry

A Chinese man, Pang Pang, was deported back to Tian Jing province last week from Sydney聮s Villawood detention centre. After he had been placed into State 1 at Villawood 聴 the immigration prison聮s maximum security area 聴 he had asked to see his case officer. No-one came to see him for two weeks, and he was subsequently deported.

Ireland: Anti-war activists acquitted, arms manufacturer exposed

The six anti-war activists who occupied arms manufacturer Raytheon鈥檚 offices in Derry and destroyed its computers 鈥 part of the Raytheon 9 who took part in the action 鈥 have been acquitted by a jury in Belfast on June 11.

The Catholic Church and public money

The state aid debate of recent years has raised some issues that have, until now, largely been neglected. One of these is the extent to which the Catholic education system, which relies heavily on the public purse, is fulfilling its own objectives.

Protest art censored

While the increasing censorship of art made headlines with the police raid and confiscation of Bill Henson聮s work in Sydney, this is far from a stand-alone case of political interference in art.

Nepal: How to oust a king

Nepal, a small landlocked nation in the Himalayas wedged between China and India, is an incredibly poor and underdeveloped nation.

John Pilger: The West betrays Burma

The voices of those who know how to help Burma are all but extinguished by a virus called the 聯war on terror聰.