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  1. The cost of nuclear waste: infinity dollars

    Adnyamathanha women who oppose the nuclear waste dump on their land. Analysis ... spent reactor fuel. Approval for the project is expected to be given on May 6 when the state's ... Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission hands down its final report. A Tentative Findings report released on ...

  2. Marcel Cartier gets his rap lines from the frontline

    position on Palestinian liberation by falling into the β€œproxy war” trap that demonises all the forces who ... clarity of a clarion call- and the messages on his latest album are as loud and clear as ever. As he tells ... a degree of neutrality and at least quasi-objetivity in the way you not only report but behave yourself on ...

  3. Middle East: 'An incredible display of people power'

    controlling Palestinian civilians β€” old, young, men, women β€” and treating them as less than human. It was then ... what's happening on the ground. He responded that because of the "controversial" nature of the ... with the narratives of the powerful and the elite. I prefer to find out what's happening on the ...

  4. Elysium a disappointing missed opportunity

    kind of cold-hearted technocratic evil that accompanies the "War on Terror". The best of ... floating space station orbiting Earth. On Elysium, every family gets a Beverley Hills-sized mansion and ... from observing the militarisation and inequality on display at the US-Mexico border.) When we meet our ...

  5. Iran: Protests shake regime

    protesters, attacks on universities and at least 22 deaths, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the ... streets daily. The protests started in Tehran on June 13, but have spread throughout the country. The ... Ahmedinejad and Mousavi emerging from within the same undemocratic regime and holding similar positions on ...

  6. Julia Gillard: change for the better?

    Gillard is the first woman PM of Australia, but not a PM for the women of Australia. Pip Hinman, anti-war ... former prime minister Kevin Rudd with his deputy, Julia Gillard, on June 24. This made her ... series of backflips on climate change and refugee policy. Rudd had tried to win back popular support by ...

  7. NT walk-off: Indigenous community defies racist intervention

    whatever cattle station required the cheap labour. Women and children lived on the outskirts of the large ... walk-off camp, three hours north-east of Alice Springs. A statement from the protest camp reads: "On ... stores, and only on food, clothing and medical supplies. Ampilatwatja, part of around 300 square ...

  8. Tommy Sheridan: Taking sides

    the city... open green space is thin on the ground as council estates occupy much of the seat's ... involved... on the side of the weak against the strong, on the side of the poor against the rich, on the side ... pensioners who stood on the picket lines outside Wallsend hospital near Newcastle for 12 months in the ...

  9. The ABC's Bougainville deception

    By Max Watts and Norm Dixon ABC Television's Foreign Correspondent program on June 12 ... screened a lengthy report by the ABC's resident Port Moresby correspondent, Sean Dorney, on the ... program was timed to coincide with UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, where Gillespie's ...

  10. Challenges face new workers' party in Zimbabwe

    β€” which had majority support among the Shona ethnic group and was aided during the 1970s liberation war by ... ZANU-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Previous parties tried to establish a right-wing presence, capitalising on the ... small, feminist movement in the mid-1980s (when women were being rounded up randomly as suspected ...

  11. Has the Tamils' struggle ended?

    October 1995, President Kumaratunga declared war on the Tamil nation with slogans "War for ... hundreds of men, women and children were killed and many more wounded. 'Operation Sunshine' In ... Lankan army directed its artillery shells on the fleeing Tamil civilians, who had choked all the roads ...

  12. Rudd in power: two years of broken promises

    detention of refugees β€” including women and children. With zombie-like determination, the government broke ... Generations, his hated Work Choices anti-union laws, his determination to support the brutal wars in Iraq and ... years on, industrial action outside a bargaining period remains illegal. Laws that discriminate against ...

  13. Action now to stop bad refugee policy

    policies. However, no sooner had the ink dried on the Palmer inquiry's recommendations into Cornelia ... Australia even if their claims for refugee status are recognised. Men, women and children would be detained, ... immigration laws. Having won an election on the strength of its "border protection" policies, the ...

  14. Arabunna people: Stop Roxby mine!

    Territory to perform a ceremony on Arabunna land in an attempt to prove traditional links to the land. This ... approval for pipeline work and a new bore-field and test bores on Arabunna land. In 1997, the Arabunna ... Nulla Kari-Ku Wanga Association was formed to fight polices and practices that infringe on Arabunna ...

  15. Why the Democrats split

    forthright (for example, the Greens' stand on asylum seekers and opposition to war has won them ... "reporting" on the resignation of former Democrats leader Meg Lees and the dummy spit by GST supporter Senator ... have been salivating over for some time, but on any issue that the ALP still feels electorally bound to ...

  16. Appalling treatment of refugees exposed

    centre on July 22. Stefan, a 32-year-old Algerian Berber, was targeted by both sides of the civil war in ... considering publishing an open letter to Ruddock in a major newspaper, calling on him to release women and ... Four Corners on the conditions inside Australia's immigration detention centres. The report, ...

  17. Iraq election a sham: Bring the troops home!

    admiring audience in Washington on January 18. "In coming days, the Iraqi people will have their ... gap between its claims about Iraq and the reality is so vast that any comment it makes on the subject ... reality of Iraq's war-ravaged infrastructure, the violence meted out by the occupation forces to ...

  18. Toxic sugar is only half the story

    consumed after the food shortages during World War II. In 1957, British nutritionist John Yudkin found no ... Fat was considered harmless. Atkins managed to sell millions of copies on the basis that eating steak, ... β€” caused obesity and heart disease. By 2003, 10% of Americans were on his diet. The sale of rice and pasta, ...

  19. World scientists' warning to humanity

    on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the ... environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the ... endangers food production and other essential human systems. Heavy demands on the world's surface ...

  20. Free movement around a free globe

    Afghanistan condemns many women to beg on the street because they have been banned from working. Is this ... convention's enactment β€” the height of the Cold War β€” it was designed in part to make ideological mileage out ... "Free World". The post-war economic boom also created a generalised thirst for labour in the ...

  21. TURKEY: The death fast of Behic Asci

    as a partner in the "war on terrorism". Only strong support and solidarity from human ... rights supporters around the world. Asci began the death fast on International Lawyer's Day, April ... of Asci's clients, both men and women, had been raped while in custody, often by prison guards ...

  22. UNITED STATES: Racism and the wealth gap

    is racism woven into society on every level β€” the bedrock of US society rooted in slavery and ... with the crushing of the slave owners in the Civil War. Unfortunately, African Americans didn't ... discrimination until legal action was taken based on the new laws in the 1970s. In my industry (airlines), few ...

  23. Zagreb's struggling antiwar newspaper

    β€” ARK for Anti War Campaign and zin for fanzine) is the monthly newspaper of Antiwar Campaign Croatia ... women's initiatives, the Croatian Helsinki Committee and the civil initiative for freedom of public word); ... and banned people, and various marginal groups); reports on violations of human rights and freedom of ...

  24. 'Bill of Rights needed'

    jury, for the jury to decide on guilt and innocence and for the court to sentence. When that prisoner ... "feeling that they are the ones deciding someone's guilt or innocence. They put on the black hat and ... system." Critical for McNish is "a whole new rethink of our attitude to drugs. The majority of women ...

  25. Falling like rain

    A Bessie Smith record on ABC radio 20-odd years ago did it for me; some old Robert Johnson 78s did it for ... target of right-wing Cold War attacks (these days the 1994 re-issue would be attacked as ... to prisoners. Of the 3100 men and two dozen women executed by electric chair during the '30s and ...

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