By Sean Healy
During the past week, rallies and protests on campuses throughout the country were organised to protest against the federal government's higher education policy, in particular its funding cuts to universities, fees for
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At 5:38am on October 6, a spacecraft called Cassini is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral in the United States. On board will be 72.3 pounds (32.8 kg) of the deadliest substance known, plutonium. This is by far the most plutonium ever
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Ever thought that you would like to support GLW more than just by reading the paper regularly?
You are probably already committed to the idea that the world needs changing, and realise that a key part of change is
By Alison Dellit and Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — As Â鶹ӳ» Weekly went to press, 100 students were still occupying the main finance department of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in an attempt to force the administration to
'... shake your hand'
By Brandon Astor Jones
According to page 5 of the Cobb County Sheriff's Office Adult Detention Facility, Inmate Handbook, "Except for legal and media mail ... [a]ll outgoing mail must be unsealed'", so I will
Bathurst snubs Hanson
By Emma Nicholson
BATHURST — A tour by Pauline Hanson of NSW's central western region has been met by anti-racist demonstrations. The largest of these was here on August 19, when some 1000 Charles Sturt University
By Rupen Savoulian
Alarm bells are now ringing in Washington and Islamabad, because the Afghanistan opposition forces, led by General Ahmad Shah Masood, have pounded the Taliban out of northern Afghanistan and are on the outskirts of the
By Peter Montague
Toxic Deception, the new must-read book by investigative reporters Dan Fagin and Marianne Lavelle, is subtitled, "How the chemical industry manipulates science, bends the law, and endangers your health." The book documents a
Students seize Tasmania Uni building
By Kylie Moon
HOBART — Three hundred students rallied on Tasmania University on August 20 in protest at university plans to cut services. The planned cuts include the amalgamation of three libraries, a
East Timor: Suharto snubs Mandela
By Jill Hickson
On August 17, Indonesian Independence Day, the Indonesian minister of justice, Oetoeyo Oesman, announced that the 20-year prison sentence of Xanana Gusmao, president of the National
LibertariasDirected by Vincente ArandaDendy Films Review by Marina Cameron
Libertarias is a fantastic and inspiring look at the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of a group of women who fight to play their part in the struggle for
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — The state Rundle Liberal government has announced plans for a November 29 referendum on parliamentary change. The referendum would ask two questions: whether to reduce Tasmania's parliamentarians from 54 to 40, and, if
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