Timorese: we're being forced to leave Australia
BY JON LAND
East Timorese asylum seeker and independence activist Naldo Rai is being forced by immigration authorities and government officials to leave Australia. Along with around 1600 East
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On May 12, the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) signed a three-month "peace accord" at a secret location in Geneva. A government statement said the cease-fire would come into effect on June 2 and would be reviewed regularly.
Less than a month ago, Peter Boyle walked the sad and dusty one-kilometre stretch of the only open land border crossing between Pakistan and India, at Wagha.
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — La Trobe University faces its gravest ever crisis. If a new, budget-cutting plan prepared by university management is implemented, it will mean the end of countless subjects across nearly all of the university's
Remember that
BY BRANDON ASTOR JONES
"Michael's happiness is all the affirmation I need." — Jane Smith Jane Smith, 43, is an eighth grade science teacher who lives in North Carolina. Michael Carter, 15, is one of her students. One of
Cuban women's tour
July 22-30
Representatives of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) will be visiting Australia on July 22-30. This is a special opportunity to share experiences and learn from revolutionary women.
If you would you like to
James Cook protest against PM
Several hundred students and staff at James Cook University in Cairns protested on May 18 against a visit by Prime Minister John Howard, on campus to open a new library.
"At first he smiled as if he was being
CZECH REPUBLIC: Communist Party's velvet return
A spectre haunted last November's celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the "velvet revolution". After years on the margins, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) had suddenly doubled
Capacity
"[It is] subject to having the capacity to pay." — Tax office second commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo on why some of the income, fringe benefit and superannuation taxes evaded by high-income individuals via employee benefit schemes might
Care residents to be hit by GST
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — Residents at a group home for people with disabilities will be whacked with a $8 per week rent rise after July 1, a rise the home's management claims is made necessary by the GST. However,
Despite the Chinese Communist Party's push for the reintroduction of capitalist relations of production in China, the triumph of capitalism there is not yet certain. However, if US President Bill Clinton's November deal with Beijing for the US to
Heat still on at Bondi Beach
SYDNEY — Protesters are maintaining their presence at the construction site of the Olympics beach volleyball stadium at Bondi Beach. Hundreds of people stopped at stalls on May 13 and 14 to sign a petition against the
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