Linda Seaborn, Hobart
After three and a half years in the job, David Jackson, the clinical director of Alcohol and Drug Services in Tasmania's Department of Health and Human Services, resigned in early February, saying he could no longer tolerate
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Pip Hinman, Sydney
Keysar Trad from the Muslim Friendship Society told an 80-strong Stop the War Coalition meeting here on February 27 that the "backlash" against the Muslim community is a direct result of "politicians and radio shock jocks trying
Bruce Marlowe
Dr Carolus Wimmer, international secretary of the Communist Party of Venezuela and member of the Latin American parliament, finished his Australian speaking tour with a March 5 meeting in Newcastle. He also spoke in Sydney, Canberra,
Sue Bull
University of Ballarat workers engaged in a class action against their employer have declared victory in the first round. Interlocutory action against the university's use of Australian Workplace Agreements (individual contracts) was heard
Linda Waldron
Five months after the October 8 earthquake struck north-west Pakistan, a much-anticipated tragedy has been largely avoided. Through the work of NGO, political and trade union activists in Pakistan and other countries, some successes
'Killer Bush go back!'
PAKISTAN — Labour Party Pakistan activists defied a ban to demonstrate in Lahore and Karachi on March 2 against the visit of US President George Bush. The protesters chanted 'Killer Bush go back' and 'Hands off
SyrianaDirected and written by Stephen GaghanWith George Clooney, Matt Damon and Jeffrey WrightScreening nationally
REVIEW BY LACHLAN MALLOCH
Syriana is part of a new wave of political films coming from Hollywood that are more or less critical of
Harrison Healy, Nablus
Over several days beginning on February 19, the Israeli army conducted a series of incursions in the Balata refugee camp, claiming it was trying to track down 16 Palestinian resistance fighters.
According to camp residents,
Eva Cheng
On January 5, Bant Singh, a Dalit (low-caste) activist from the Mansa district of Punjab, was brutally attacked by seven thugs. It is believed that the attackers were sent by the local village head in revenge for Singh's five-year pursuit
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
On March 2, the immigration department reached an out-of-court settlement with the parents of an 11-year-old Iranian boy, Shayan Badraie, over his experiences in the Woomera and Villawood detention centres in 2000 and 2002.
Doug Lorimer
In the aftermath of the February 22 bombing of the Shiite Golden Mosque in Samarra - a predominantly Sunni city 125 kilometres north of Baghdad - by four men wearing Iraqi interior ministry commando uniforms, the Western corporate
Elizabeth Schulte, Chicago
In the most sweeping anti-abortion measure in 10 years, South Dakota state senators voted on February 22 for a bill that will ban virtually all abortions. Under the bill — which states that human "life begins at the
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