Bosnia: the West has dirty hands
Western media outrage over hostage-taking of UN "peacekeeping" forces in Bosnia and Hercegovina by Radovan Karadzic's Bosnian Serb army is appallingly selective. The Bosnian Serb army has maintained whole cities
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Drought aid misses target
By Chris Spindler
Last week the federal government announced an extra $40.3 million in drought aid to some areas that did not receive recent rainfalls. But the package has only confused farmers, as its arbitrary
Â鶹ӳ» Weekly soccer championship
By Jorge Jorquera
PERTH — May 28 was the inauguration of the Â鶹ӳ» Weekly Soccer Championship at Perth College oval. It proved a successful fundraising event for GLW, and provided exercise and
Goss condemned on jailing move
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "The Goss Labor government wants to throw more young people behind bars as a short cut to electoral victory in the coming state election", Zanny Begg, Democratic Socialist candidate
Campaign to stop the Scarborough tunnel
By Sarah Harris
WOLLONGONG — Fifty people at a meeting called by the Wombara Preservation Group (WPG) in Scarborough on May 28 decided to continue the struggle to stop the NSW State Rail Authority
The Brisbane Home Front, 1939-1945
Exhibition, Brisbane City Hall
Seven days per week until August 20
Reviewed by Dave Riley
After a life in the shadow of my parents' memories of "the War" (as though there have been no others since), the
Nice effort, but why?
People: Hard Hitting Women
SBS TV
Friday, June 9, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide)
"People enjoy seeing the excitement of a fight" in any sport, claim the organisers of the first women's British boxing championships. Those who
Unionists, environmentalists form coalition
By Lisa Macdonald
On June 5, World Environment Day, the Building Division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Conservation Council of SA (CCSA) formalised links
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Simon de Faux, a Victorian nurse sent to East Timor as a volunteer for the Catholic Church, was warned by the Australian government not to go public with his first-hand experiences of human rights abuses in East
By Lisa Macdonald
The arrival of 18 East Timorese boat people in Darwin on May 30 has created a major headache for the ALP federal government.
Several thousand East Timorese have fled to Australia by various means since the brutal invasion
The Cutting Edge: Hostage of Time
SBS, Tuesday, June 20, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson
This documentary, made in Lebanon in 1994, traces the experience of a young doctor, Leila, who returns with her eight-month-old son to
By Pip Hinman
"Tougher punishment for serious and juvenile crime will not solve the problem of crime in our community", said Professor Ross Homel at the Coalition for Crime Prevention's campaign launch in Brisbane on May 18.
Homel, from
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