Eva Cheng
On April 11, more than 20,000 people marched to China's central government liaison office in Hong Kong. They were protesting Beijing's backtrack from a promise, made before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China, that the
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Jenny Long, Sydney
After weeks of softening up for a promised horrific cut in public spending in NSW, the minibudget announced by Treasurer Michael Egan on April 6 was promoted by him as a "tough but fair" response to the Labor state government's
Sarah Stephen
Conceding the situation in the war-torn country was not "settling down", immigration minister Amanda Vanstone announced on April 10 that the government would lift the freeze on processing asylum applications from Iraqis on three-year
They sailed for survival, for peace and justice,They sailed for each other, they put their faith in us,But you hold them in your gulags, your island cells of shame,To teach them all a lesson, you hold them in our name.
They sailed across the oceanA
Kim Bullimore
Two weeks before the April 15 announcement by federal cabinet that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) was to be scrapped on July 1, an editorial in Rupert Murdoch's Australian proclaimed that ATSIC had lost
Rohan Pearce
Wondering what's been happening in Iraq? Here's US President George Bush's account: "Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being instigated by
Sarah Stephen
SYDNEY — On April 10, 250 people rallied in support of refugees in Bradfield Park, Kirribilli. Organised by the Refugee Action Coalition, the protest marked the third year that refugee-rights supporters have converged over the
Rupen Savoulien
A series of bombings and shootings on March 29 left at least 19 people dead and dozens more wounded in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, according to official reports. There were also unconfirmed reports of numerous other
Since the passage of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1984, more women than ever before have entered the military. Women constitute 15.5% of the Australian Defence Force (higher than the US military, which has 14.3% women, and the British military
Susan Dwyer, Chicago
After more than 20 years, someone with inside information has confirmed the stories told by dozens of African American men — that Chicago police under the command of Jon Burge tortured suspects at Areas 2 and 3 police
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Muslims protest Iraq war
SYDNEY — Chanting "Down, down Washington!" in English and "America go to hell!" in Arabic, 400 Muslims marched down the main road of the western Sydney suburb of Auburn to the local park on April 11.
Speakers at
REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE
Marianas in Combat: Tet‚ Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon in the Cuban revolutionary war, 1956-1958Edited by Mary-Alice WalkerPathfinder Press, 200397 pages, $22.
"How can we give rifles to women when there
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