REVIEW BY IGGY KIM
Spinning Into ButterWritten by Rebecca GilmanDirected by Adam CookEnsemble Theatre, SydneyMay 17-June 29
US playwright Rebecca Gilman's feted work, Spinning Into Butter, is an unabashed self-examination of racial prejudice in
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Sorry Day
BRISBANE — Around 2000 people walked across the Goodwill Bridge to a festival
in Musgrave Park to mark National Sorry Day 2002 on May 26, condemning
past governmentsÂ’ forcible removal of Indigenous children from their
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART — "The small town community of Ranelagh has stood its ground at the commission hearing into the proposed Southwood woodchip mill", local activist Peter Cahill told Â鶹ӳ» Weekly. Forestry Tasmania is planning to build
BY PIP HINMAN
Centacare, a religious welfare group which met with the United Nations teams inspecting South Australia's Woomera detention centre on May 30, said the teams were shocked at what they saw. Dale West from Centacare told the ABC that
[On May 31, Greens Senator Bob Brown told ABC radio that he would consider
helping the government to sell the remaining third of Telstra if the government
was prepared to end old growth logging. Later that day, a press statement
from Brown's
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Craig Johnston, the secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), may be under attack, but along with the rest of the militant union branch's Workers First leadership, he is
 June 23 has been chosen as a national day of action for refugees,
a protest against the Australian government's inhumane policy of mandatory
detention [of asylum seekers]. We demand that the detention camps be closed,
and that refugees be
A few months ago a group of friends at Fort Street High School were painting a banner and talking, they decided to convince their fellow students of the injustice of government policy towards refugees and to mobilise them to change it. Year 12
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — On the morning of May 30, I and fellow high school Resistance activist James Crafti stood before a judge at Melbourne Children's Court. The case followed our arrest for trespass while protesting for refugee rights
BY JOE CRAIG
DUBLIN — In late March, Sinn Fein launched its campaign for the May
17 Irish general election with a rally in Dublin's Gresham Hotel, at the
same time as the Irish Labour Party was holding its conference.
While Sinn Fein was keen
Final frontier
"Several big Japanese builders have set up divisions for moon-based-construction research. Shimizu Construction Corp, for instance, has been studying plans for lunar tennis courts and golf courses." — Wall Street Journal, May 24.
BY NORM DIXON
The United States is tacitly backing many of Afghanistan's brutal
and reactionary warlords as they divide up the country among themselves.
Many of the same warlords committed unspeakable atrocities during the devastating
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