“[Sometimes we can find] out who people are by listening to the music
and rhythm they carry in their speech, and theorizing that we are not really
who we are when we are perfect in grammatical sentences (which I think
of as a form of
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Finding the enemy
Who is the enemy? This is a dilemma for the US military chasing funding
in a post-Soviet era of “peace dividend”.
In Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll's dramatic account of intrigue
and interference in data networks
BY ANA KAILIS
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has announced that it will carry out a "marginal seats campaign" during the next federal election, which is expected before the end of the year. But are such campaigns a winning strategy for the
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the PreposterousBy Nick CohenVerso, 2000247pp, $35(pb)
"I appreciate there were some people who voted for us who thought we would make a difference. They didn't understand" —
BY MARGARET PERROT
WOLLONGONG — The sacking of Dr Ted Steele from Wollongong University has attracted a great deal of media attention in the past month. Much less well known is the university's treatment of Â鶹ӳ» Weekly journalist and
BY VIV MILEY
The Senate on March 7 passed new legislation which widens the circumstances under which Australian Defence Force reserves can be called out by the defence minister to suppress civil protest actions and strikes.
The legislation, which
On March 6 eight West Australian Liberal MPs wrote a letter calling on Prime Minister John Howard to block the imminent $10 billion takeover of Australia's 12th largest company, Woodside Petroleum, by the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell.
BY AL GIORDANO
While it is front-page news in South America, US President George Bush's half-billion dollar increase in funds for Plan Colombia — complete with a public relations facelift and attempted name change — has flown under the radar of
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
On March 12, a group of 70 masked thugs armed with batons, machetes
and bamboo sticks attacked the Jakarta offices of the National Student
League for Democracy (LMND). They smashed the gate, door and windows, then
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — Five East Timorese solidarity activists have been found guilty of "public order" offences for burning the flag of the Indonesian consulate in September 1999, two days after the people of East Timor voted for
BY JEREMY SMITH
BALLARAT — The National Tertiary Education Union at the University of Ballarat has voted to back the planned M1 blockade of Melbourne's stock exchange.
The motion, passed by the branch's executive on March 9, follows strong
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