Niko Leka
Peace movement supporters turned out in their hundreds to public meetings around the country last week featuring US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and founding member of Doctors of Iraq Salaam Ismael.
Ismael witnesses the carnage day
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The Da Vinci CodeDirected by Ron HowardStarring Tom Hanks and Audrey TautouScreening nationally
REVIEW BY ELAINE GRAHAM-LEIGH
The film of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code opened the Cannes film festival on May 17 to universal critical panning. The
On May 23, Australian Prime Minister John Howard made a speech to Ireland's Dail (parliament). Almost a quarter of the 166-member chamber failed to show for the occasion, many in protest at Howard's support for the war on Iraq. One of those absent
Jane Fonda: My Life So FarBy Jane FondaEbury Press, 2005599 pp, $49.95 (hb)
Jane Fonda's War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar IconBy Mary HershbergerThe New Press, 2005228 pp, $39.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"Feed Fonda to the whales"
Peter Boyle
On March 8, 1996, Michael Johnston, 19, a Wollongong University student, was killed while cleaning a stove at a McDonald's restaurant. He was just two weeks into the job.
Johnston had been instructed to carry out the daily cleaning of
Rohan Pearce
While not many details about the "security treaty" being negotiated between Canberra and Jakarta have been made public, the Howard government has indicated that it will include an Australian commitment to Indonesia's "territorial
BY DOMENICA SETTLE
Community radio station 3CR is celebrating 30 years of bringing diverse voices to the streets of Melbourne. From May 29 to June 11, 3CR's 450 volunteers will be calling on the community to donate to the station's 13th birthday
MELBOURNE — Seven RMIT University staff have been diagnosed with brain tumours since 1999, five in the past month. All seven have worked on the same two floors of a building at RMIT's city campus, with six of them working there for 10 years. One of
Stuart Munckton
When he issued the decree nationalising the gas industry on May 1, fulfilling the main demand of the popular movement that overthrew the two preceding presidents as well as the key promise in his election campaign, Bolivian
Gerard Morel, Melbourne
At a lunchtime rally outside the Liberal Party's Victorian head office on May 26, US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and the Democrats' Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja called for an end to the US military's imprisonment of
Gillian Davy, Melbourne
Despite pressure from the local Union Solidarity group and other residents, and opposition from its two Greens' members, Moreland City Council voted on May 22 to put control of the Coburg Leisure Complex into the hands of
Led by PM John Howard, a growing chorus of Coalition politicians are urging a turn to nuclear power as the "solution" to greenhouse-gas driven climate change. They are attempting to force open the door to more uranium mining and nuclear power
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