http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au RSS v2.0 feed of Reportage Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:16:29 +1000 en-us http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10582 +1000 pWidgetp... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10651 Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pSUVA Fiji police's criminal investigations department CID director Emosi Vunisa has threatened to quotinvestigate and chargequot a senior Daily Post reporter if she continues writing articles about controversial military officer LieutenantColonel Filipo Tarakinikini, according to media reports.ppTh... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10653 Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pOnions help ease the pain associated with tear gas. You place the onion half, or just pieces, whatever you can find over your nose and try not to breathe. It's the sweetest smell in the world right now.ppToday, I joined around six thousand people Israeli and Palestinians alike, who marched to the ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10649 Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pA NEW project in the Cook Islands is aiming to use education as quotthe magic linkquot in efforts to conserve the leviathans of the ocean the whales.ppThe Whale Education Centre on the island of Rarotonga at this stage may only be a small, colourful building with whale murals painted on its walls,... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10650 Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pemstrongDuring 2001 two young Australians, Diaa Hadid and David Kramer, headed to Israel to gain a better understanding of the region. As a scene of escalating violence unfolded before them, they were forced to question and reevaluate many of their beliefs. strongemppIt is early September and as Da... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10652 Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pI wrapped my black cotton scarf under my chin and over my hair, tucking away any loose strands under my scarf, and pulled my Monto overcoat around my body to hide its contours.ppNo, it wasnrsquot the middle of an icycold season, and no, I wasnrsquot having a bad hair day. I was simply dressing acco... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10648 Sat, 01 Jun 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pThousands of Pakistani refugees are fleeing the disputed borders of Kashmir amidst growing fears that the rapid escalation in tensions with India may spill over into allout war.ppFollowing a series of crossborder terrorist attacks by Islamic militant groups based in Pakistan, Indian prime minister ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10647 Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pReporter strongJonathan Harley strongemJuly 2002emppstrongTranscriptstrongppstrongClick a hrefhttpwww.abc.net.aulatelineav20020620020620ll_afghan.ramfont color993333here fontato watch Real VideostrongppstrongTONY JONESstrong Australia is rejecting calls by European parliamentarians for an inquiry i... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10646 Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pThe United States has committed 50 million U.S. to Indonesiarsquos unreformed military, to help the country fight international terrorism.ppApproximately 47 million will be used to upgrade police capabilities according to the public affairs section of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta. The remaining 3 m... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10645 Fri, 16 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pemA short interview with Noam Chomsky conducted by strongGabrielle Jacksonstrong in the US on August 16em.ppstrongJacksonstrong Do you expect the US to invade IraqppstrongChomskystrong My feeling is that the administration has staked so much in it that they're going to have an awful hard time backi... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10642 Sun, 01 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pEast Timor has signed an agreement exempting United States military personnel from prosecution in the new International Criminal Court ICC amid severe criticism.ppThe country is the fourth to sign the pact, known as the Article 98 agreement. The US has signed similar bilateral agreements with Roman... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10643 Sun, 01 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pThe Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade DFAT helped Australian mining companies lobby the Indonesian government for the right to mine in protected forests.ppAustralian mining companies actively lobbied the Indonesian government to remove a 1999 law prohibiting open pit mining in protected fores... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10644 Sun, 01 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pUniversity students from around the globe convened in Sydney recently to discuss current issues and challenges facing the AsiaPacific region.ppThe Annual Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations HPAIR was held outside Asia for the first time, showing the increasing significance of Aust... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10640 Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pLuiacutes Inaacutecio Lula da Silva, former steelworker and union leader, will face Joseacute Serra, the outgoing governmentrsquos candidate and President Cardosorsquos former Health Minister, in the second round of the Brazilian presidential elections on October 27. Lula gained 46.4 of the valid v... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10641 Tue, 01 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pJubilant after a close win for his redgreen coalition in Sundayrsquos elections, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroumlder now faces the task of winning back the favour of the US. After preelection comments by an SPD minister comparing Bush with Hitler, and Schroumlderrsquos firmly oppositional stance ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10639 Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pA quick summary of a recent weekrsquos big news stories would include the following. A plan to deal with the countryrsquos birth rate problem. Parents spending a fortune on tutors for their children. Local government officials in a corruption scandal. Another new inner city apartment block going up... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10637 Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pThe Indonesian parliament yesterday delayed passing a draconian press law which critics fear would allow for the return of a Suhartostyle press council with powers to censor one of Asia's freest and most vociferous media industries.ppThe delay, which comes amid widespread protests, was because the ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10638 Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +1000 pIf Bush wants war with Iraq, hersquod better choose a nonAmerican to point the missiles. Just 13 percent of young Americans can find Iraq on a map ndash fewer than their peers in most countries.ppDespite its role as peacekeeper and superpower, the US beat only Mexico in the recent National Geograph... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10677 Mon, 14 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pnbspppstrongBy Michelle ToffolonstrongppnbspAustralia's coverage of the war in Iraq was relatively open and not as quotbleakquot as John Pilger would argue, journalist Tony Vermeer said today.ppMr Vermeer, who is the EditorinChief for Australian Associated Press, challenged fellow journalist Pilger... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10680 Mon, 14 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongby Tim Elbra strongppThe dove of peace was seen on the Central Coast on Palm Sunday if only for a few minutes.br nbsppptable height117 cellspacing1 cellpadding1 width226 alignleft border0 tbody tr tdimg height254 alt width350 alignleft srchttpwww.reportage.uts.edu.austor... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10679 Mon, 14 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Natasha RobinsonstrongppThe winding up of military action in Iraq did not deter more than ten thousand Palm Sunday demonstrators in Sydney from marching for peace they said their message was now more important than ever.pptable height78 cellspacing1 cellpadding1 width172 alignright border... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10678 Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Nick KeysstrongppnbspA not so thin blue line has encircled the protestors. It's 2.30pm on April 2 at the Books Not Bombs' AntiWar rally. Inside the circle, a mosh of energised young men pulsate as one entity across the square at Town Hall, like the pull of the ocean, surging one way and th... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10681 Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Tim ElbrastrongppAt 1030am on Palm Sunday, a big truck carrying a bigger message drives onto Belmore Park. Three men work for a solid two hours to set it up as a makeshift stage, paying particular attention to the loudspeakers sending a message is about being heard, after all. Adorning the... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10671 Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongnbspBy Anna HustlerstrongppThe most magnificent sunset is disturbed by a confused melee. A man plays violin, swaying in the desert sand as a troop of mounted police gallop down the hill in a cloud of red dust. It is a poetic and horrifying sight. As the protesters continue to set up their ten... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10675 Tue, 06 May 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Jano GibsonstrongppAn antiwar protest at last month's UTS Careers Day could result in the expulsion of two students if they are charged with nonacademic misconduct.ppMembers of the Australian Defence Force ADF, who had been staffing a recruitment stall, were left dripping with red paint af... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10676 Wed, 07 May 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pnbspppstrongBy Timothy Elbranbspstrongppbr A DOCUMENTARY addressing Muslim anger at the United States was attacked on all fronts during a recent screening at the University of Technology, Sydney.ppThe film, titled quotWhy U.S. An Insightful Look at the 911 Tragedy and What Makes the United States a... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10672 Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Vincent MorellostrongppThirty thousand parents of Australians may not live long enough to be reunited with their children thanks to Parliament politicsand that's the good news.ppThe bad news is, whilst Australia's government and the Opposition have argued three years over an issue only to ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10469 Fri, 01 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Diana SimmondsstrongppBetween white Australiarsquos two favourite celebrations of its past the picturesque moment of the penal colonyrsquos founding at Botany Bay and the hopeless inadvertent heroism of Anzac Cove, is a long silence. Andrew Bovellrsquos new play, Holy Day, explores that si... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10673 Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Mark Franklinbr strongbr Three Australian Tamil doctors and several engineers and agricultural aid workers, all volunteers in Tamildominated areas in the north of Sri Lanka, could potentially be arrested and charged when they return to Australia. br br This is because according to the Crim... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10634 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +1000 pIt has been labeled a ldquofailedrdquo state by some and a ldquofragilerdquo nation by others. Papua New Guinea has suffered its share of political crises and rampant corruption.ppHowever, in the year marking their 30th anniversary of independence, Papua New Guineans are now telling Australia enoug... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10636 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +1000 pItrsquos the nomination season in the American foreign policy arena. The last few weeks have seen a flurry of White House announcements with several controversial officials tapped for key foreign policy posts. John Bolton, current Undersecretary for Arms Control and outspoken critic of the United N... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10635 Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongThe air is unusually warm and humidstrong. We are in Galang, Indonesia, itrsquos February, 1991. Men, women and children are huddled together under the heat of the midday sun.ppUp along the line of monotonous wooden barracks, once white but now streaked with peeling paint, a man stands on its... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10583 Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +1000 pOften the only thing ldquoqueerrsquo in hiphop is the ranting of wanabe fag killers. But there is a growing group of artists who want to tell a different story.ppNow in its second year, the Peace OUT East hiphop festival is a New York based annual gathering of queer hiphop, spoken word and performa... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10576 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Linda GustavssonstrongppAs a former Dominatrix amp Bondage Mistress diagnosed with marfan syndrome, Jabe Babe is not your conventional woman.ppShe has long dark brown hair with a red shimmer. Her eyes are dark brown and deep like the eyes of a wild deer. Her lips are most days painted in r... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10569 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pThe president of the peak national legal body says that antiterrorism laws allow innocent people to be held and questioned.ppIn March, the President of the Law Council of Australia, John North, said that the emAntiTerrorism Act No.2em 2005 Cth ldquoallows innocent people to be held, questioned, and... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10570 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pThe petition, which included 1,850 signatures and was tabled in the Upper House last Thursday, also calls on the AttorneyGeneral to undertake investigations into the conspiracy, perjury and contempt of court by those involved in the wrongful conviction of Catt and calls on the AttorneyGeneral to in... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10571 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pImagine what it would be like for a child to be restricted in their movement due to their physical disabilities. Without the aid of a mobility device, the condition of their disability deteriorates, and also denies children the chance of becoming independent people in society.ppRobyn Chapman, Execu... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10572 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pThe gay and lesbian rights group, Community Action Against Homophobia CAAH are planning a protest at Villawood Detention Centre this Easter weekend, to raise awareness of refugees who are seeking asylum on the basis of their sexuality.ppldquoOur aim is to raise community awareness about queer ident... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10573 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pIn 1986 Margaret was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for importing drugs to Australia. ldquoYou lose your family, your kids, you lose your dignity, and you lose choices.nbsp Choices over what time I made a phone call, what I decide to eat for dinner, just basic things like that.nbsp And you rui... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10574 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pThe Iraqi Government was not alone in receiving financial incentives from the Australian Wheat Board.nbsp Australian electoral records show the wheat marketer also sharing largesse at home.ppPrior to 2002 AWB had made no donations to political parities in Australia, according to the disclosures mad... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10575 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pWhen it comes to granting credit cards, the general rule applied by financial institutions is that the same provisions apply equally to all people regardless of their background, gender, occupation and in particular, intellectual disability.ppldquoWhen evaluating a customer's application for credit... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10564 Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pWhen complete the stabling yards at Macdonaldtown will house eight trains. Each day, at 4 am train horns and brakes from the eight trains will be tested.ppldquoI am not happy about these plans thrown on us. We were prepared for some noise pollution because we realised we were buying into an industr... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10565 Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pThe Northern Rivers Wildlife Carers group has spent several years and thousands of dollars working to promote flying foxes as a positive aspect of local Australian wildlife. ldquoOne of the real problems wersquore dealing with here is ignorance,rdquo said Gwenaelle Seznec, a local wildlife carer.pp... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10566 Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pHis shirt is a vibrant spectacle of fluorescent yellow, green and blue blobs, set off by a tie decorated with the image of a smiling clown. As we shake hands, I am relieved I have taken his advice and left my 'power suit' at home for our interview. This is no place for the demure. After all, I am s... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10567 Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pIn his role as a pastor at Christ Church, Blacktown, Reverend Bernard Suwa understands the often traumatic transition that refugees who have come to Australia under the humanitarian program endure. Reverend Suwa is from southern Sudan and he and his family arrived in Australia six years ago after s... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10568 Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pldquoYou hear problems from carers in that some workers try and coerce people into taking more children than they feel comfortable taking,rdquo says NSW Foster Care Association President Mary Jane Beach of what she calls the ldquocatastrophicrdquo shortage of foster carers in NSW.ppFoster carers pr... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10550 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pnbspptable width290 height456 cellpadding0 border0 alignleft tbody tr td width284 height462 p classstyle1img width277 vspace5 hspace5 height417 alignleft alt srchttpwww.reportage.uts.edu.austories2006societyrau2.jpg p p classstyle1photo Daniel Guerrap ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10552 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pThere is a wild looking man on the promenade at Bondi. He stands in front of a chaotic profusion of signs. Daisies are strewn in front of him. He has grey dreadlocks and wears a faded pink cowboy hat. A lei of flowers rests on his bare chest and he gesticulates at passers by, calling out randomly.p... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10553 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pAccording to Dr Richard Hall, Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydneyrsquos School of Business, the removal of unfair dismissal protection will increase workplace insecurity and pressure.ppldquoTherersquoll be no protection for people working in places wit... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10554 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 phe founder of a hrefhttpwww.chilout.org targetnewChilOuta, a community group aimed at ending the detention of asylum seeking children, recently attacked proposed amendments to immigration legislation. The proposed amendments would result in children being held in inhumane mandatory detention centre... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10555 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pOn your first meeting with 20 year old Daniel Chytra, you are left with an impression.nbsp A genuinely friendly young guy, the type who doesnrsquot hesitate to talk to you, and who wears a cap indoors. What you do not see is the effects of the devastating and mysterious disease which attacks his ce... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10559 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pIt is the morning of April 17, 1975. Big crowds of people gather on the streets and cheer as Khmer Rouge soldiers parade into Phnom Penh. Even though the crowds are smiling and celebrating, the faces of the soldiers remain stone cold and emotionless. By nightfall, the capital city is silent, not a ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10561 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pAiming to draw on Australiarsquos sportscrazed public, the Word Wrestling Federation WWF has created the NSW v QLD State of Origin lsquopoetry slamrsquo.ppMC Zoe Zee from the NSW team has been into slam poetry since 1998.ppldquoI performed at a few open mikes in San Francisco, I came back here and ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10563 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pAn inquiry by the nbspLegislative Council a hrefhttpwww.parliament.nsw.gov.auprodparlmentcommittee.nsf0B09BA359E47F0703CA25714100013DF1 targetnewStanding Committee on Law and Justicea into community based sentencing options for rural, remote and disadvantaged groups has found that although communit... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10556 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Alice O'KeefestrongppMark Danner is an American journalist who writes for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He has published on foreign affairs, American politics, and the Middle East. Danner is also Professor of Journalism at the University of California and Henry R. Luce P... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10557 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Alice O'KeefestrongppMadonna King shows that as a journalist, you donrsquot have to stick to one medium. Even after twenty years in the profession, she says that everyday is different.ppldquoI donrsquot think you could ever be a journalist and get bored with what yoursquore doing, because ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10558 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Annie DangstrongppThe 2006 festival, held at the Sydney Opera House, drew an audience from students to filmmakers and tourists.ppThree films, starkly different in style, shared common themes about Indigenous race across three distinct cultures. Ivan Senemrsquos Shifting Shelter 3em, emMoha... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10560 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Michelle TavernitistrongppThe ceiling of the Whitlam Library in Cabramatta is littered with paper aeroplanes, and the smell of Vietnamese pork rolls wafts in from the supper room. A melody of different languages blends with the clatter of trains delivering locals and sightseers to nearby C... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10562 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Anthony StinsonstrongppJude Lawrsquos abs, Spice Girl Emma Buntonrsquos breasts, Mark Waughrsquos hands, Kostya Tszyursquos fists, and British model James Goodingrsquos bottom. An impressive yet odd collection of celebrity body parts handled in the name of charity by 28 yearold Sydney body... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10551 Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pspan styledisplay none id1208495383620SnbspspanppJamesrsquo seventeenth birthday party was a lowkey affair just a gathering at the local park and the chance to get wasted with some of his friends. The pungency of beer, smoke and hormones hung in the air. Blaring music echoed in the hearts and mind... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10540 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongSarah Malik Can you describe the situation there at the momentstrongppOlfat Mahmoud The situation in Lebanon is very terrifying. Bombing every hour. You never know which road is safe. You never know what is going to happen in a minute. Killing everywhere. Fear. Most of the resources like food... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10536 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pItrsquos a sunny afternoon, about 3pm. An enormous tower block deflects the sunsbquos rays like a shield, trapping them and warming one side of the block, while leaving the other side cold and dark.ppOn the sunsoaked side, flourishing plane trees and an adjacent park create a pleasant space where p... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10541 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongShevonne Hunt Many commentators have said that the current situation in Lebanon and the Middle East was inevitable, given the history of the area, would you agreestrongppStuart Rees Itrsquos inevitable in the sense that they have failed for over 50 years to solve the problem of justice for th... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10542 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pCommunity groups warn that the Cross City Tunnel is endangering the health of Sydneysiders.ppAn emissions stack in Darling Harbour has been blowing unfiltered portal emissions, fumes from the tunnelrsquos entrances and exits, over Sydney since the tunnelrsquos opening on 28 August 2005.ppldquoWe ar... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10543 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pMarketers have gained access to our schools, directly targeting primary school children, through market research, fundraising and sponsorship campaigns.ppemJust Kiddingem is a free children's magazine launched in 2001 by Victoria based company, Yarra Media. The magazine is distributed through prima... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10544 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pldquoArms up, step forward with your jab,rdquo says boxing trainer Father Dave. The priest, who runs fight club, is preparing a young man for his first fight.ppemYea, though I walk to centreringembr emTo stare out an opponent twice my sizeembr emEven then He will be with meembr emHis hands on my sh... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10545 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pUntil the final Australian Constitutional Convention in 1898, the power to legislate on industrial relations was left exclusively to State Governments. It was only at the last Convention and by a very tight vote that the Commonwealth was granted a limited power over such matters. According to the C... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10548 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 p aligncenterimg width475 height317 alt srchttpwww.reportage.uts.edu.austories2006indigenousredfern.jpg br span classstyle1On the Block, Tent Embassy activist Isabelle Coe uses a loud hailer to get the message across to the gathering crowd. spanppHundreds of protesters who rallied in Redfern to prot... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10549 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pWhile exact numbers of people killed by the illness remain uncertain, the Indonesian Ministry of Health confirmed in an internet statement on 3 May that cases of diarrhoea affecting people in the Jayawijaya region were found to be caused by cholera.ppThe statement cites the death toll at 157 people... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10547 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Stephanie RaisonstrongppAn independent review of federal sedition laws has found that the term lsquoseditionrsquo should be removed. The Australian Law Reform Commission has released its discussion paper on the federal sedition laws and they make twentyfive proposals for reform. These prop... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10546 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Gemma SeymourstrongppA plain piece of A4 paper with the word lsquoemFashionanarchyemrsquo scrawled across it is fixed to a fence somewhere in Newtown.ppWithin metres of the fence, a girl with a black star drawn around one eye is joined by a small contingent dressed all in black. They are s... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10530 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pAs defence counsel for alleged terrorist David Hicks, Mori raised concerns that the new military commission being developed in the USA could include the death penalty.ppAccording to Brett Solomon, Executive Director of event sponsor ema hrefhttpwww.getup.org.aublog_details.aspblog_post_id100GetUpae... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10531 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pLast year the number of people diagnosed with HIV jumped 28 per cent to the highest level since 1991, according to figures released by the Victorian Government in March 2006.Men who sleep with men remain the group most at risk, and the proportion of gay men who fall victim to the disease reached 72... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10532 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pThe elephants, which are bound for their new home at Sydneyrsquos Taronga Zoo, are at the center of an animal rights debate, which has been raging for almost two years.ppOnce they arrive in their new home, the elephants will form a breeding herd, which will help conserve the endangered species. The... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10534 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pThe model developed by Professor Matthew England of the University of New South Wales won the Eureka Science Prize for Environmental Research in September. It can be used to study changes in ocean currents that may intensify drought in southwestern Australia and make Europe five degrees cooler with... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10537 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pGretel Oheme examines the four centimetre scars that litter her thigh. nbspRaw wounds lie between the bulbous pink marks, physical signs of her continuing mental suffering. nbspppldquoI use the razor a lot less now,rdquo Gretel says. nbspldquoI know that one day I will be able to stop cutting. nbsp... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10539 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pOn closer inspection, the flags and banners seem to hold a special significance. In the centre of each white flag is the golden silhouette of an island. Underneath each island there are two green olive branches, symbolising the peace these people are marching for. The photos show the true story. It... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10533 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Matthew KnottstrongppIn Brisbane, an angry citizen signs an epetition protesting changes to Queenslandrsquos rail network. In Adelaide, progressive twentysomethings organise a 2 000 person strong candlelight vigil for Australian terror suspect David Hicks. In Sydney, a politician awaits th... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10535 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Catherine ZahrastrongppUntil recently, the issue of defamation law reform had lingered unresolved on the agenda of the Australian States and Territories for almost 30 years. The beginning of this year marked an important milestone with each jurisdiction implementing uniform legislation on ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10538 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Natalie MullerstrongppBorn visited Australia during August and presented a lecture titled, lsquoPublic Sector Broadcasting Lessons from the BBC and UK,rsquo organised by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. She shared insights into a harsh media landscape where bullying govern... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10512 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pTo be honest I had been expecting more from dinner with the Lieutenant Colonel. I was envisaging silver cutlery and maybe even decanted wine. I was surprised when we filed into the mess hall along with the grunts. I soon realised the invitation to dinner was less about the culinary experience and m... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10513 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pIn South Australia, fishermen drag baby Bluefins in nets along the coast to cages in Port Lincoln, where they are fattened up for 3 to 5 months. They are shipped frozen to Japan for the sashimi market, where the best can fetch 600 or more a kilo.ppIt is a 300 million dollar industry that has made l... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10514 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pUnplanned pregnancy is a reality for many women. No contraceptive method is 100 effective, and sometimes things just happen. For women living outside metropolitan areas, the decision to terminate a pregnancy is made even harder.ppWomen in rural and remote Queensland have to travel thousands of kilo... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10515 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pThese days you can catch Jeff Shaw QC on his mobile. No slippery PR guru mans his phones, nor is there an evasive secretary guarding his schedule and chambers. Instead, the former NSW AttorneyGeneral and Supreme Court judge is surprisingly accessible. He works from a small booklined office in Sydne... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10516 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pMany of the cafeacutes and health food stores in Sydney are using bananaflavoured syrup or banana puree in order to keep costs down, leaving customers unaware and irritated by the changes.ppldquoItrsquos too artificial to use syruphellipnatural is better, all the way.nbsp They should definitely let... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10517 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pHungry babies have reason to celebrate. In April 2006 Perthrsquos King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women opened in the Perron Rotary Express Milk Bank, or PREMB. It is an important development for Australiarsquos infant health care system. After years of research, the first milk bank donors for PR... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10518 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pDr Christina Ho sits at her desk, the sounds of Harris Street and the south of the city filtering through the windows. Across the road, Berto Pandolfo is surrounded by the chaos of an industrial design studio.ppThese two lecturers at the University of Technology Sydney have never met, never worked ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10470 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pAt 453 a.m. on September 3 2003, Idan Ashkenazi and Yariv Opatovski woke up and quickly slipped into their army uniforms. In the early hours of the morning, they began their guard duty of the military base.ppFastforward three years.ppAt 4.53a.m.on September 3, 2006, Ashkenazi and Opatovski slept so... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10526 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongDaniela Aroche strongHaving been a foreign ambassador to Israel what kind of situations have you had to deal withppstrongPeter Rogersstrong The most difficult aspect of my time in Israel was growing awareness that the hopes created by the ldquoOslordquo peace process signed in late 1993 were... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10520 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 divstrongttspan stylefontsize 10pt lineheight 150font faceArialBy Zoya SheftalovichfontspanttstrongdivdivttnbspttdivdivRussian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was seemingly fearless.nbspShenbspwas on the hate and hite list of some of the mostnbsppowerful and frightening people in Russia, including pre... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10524 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Sarah PorterstrongppWhile the freedom of information movement in Australia has its origins in the 60s, and little has been done since the introduction of federal FOI legislation in 1982, journalist Michael McKinnonrsquos recent battle with Treasurer Peter Costello has engulfed the nationrs... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10525 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Reem Algharabalistrongbr br Adam Zyglis, editorial cartoonist for ema hrefhttpwww.buffalonews.comopinionadamzygliscartoons.aspThe Buffalo Newsaem, says that political cartoons are struggling to adjust to the changing newspaper industry, resulting in a large decrease of staff cartoonists in... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10523 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Jeanavive McGregorstrongppAs the lift shudders to the fourth floor of ABC Ultimo, a colleague casually asks Trevor Bormann about his trip.ppldquoHectic,rdquo he replies, ldquowe had a suicide bomber blow himself up about 150 metres from us in Kabul.rdquoppBormann and his team have just ret... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10519 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Leilah SchubertstrongppNewman helped set up a satellite office in New York for the a hrefhttpwww.dartcenter.orgDart Centrea after September 11, and is now the Centrersquos Research Advisor. Dartrsquos aims are to improve the coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy and to address the impac... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10521 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Camilla MargolisstrongppThe latest instalment from the chaser team emThe Chaserrsquos War On Everythingem tackled racism in Mosman, that terrible dare ad, Tony Abbottrsquos belief in the possibility of halfanimal, halfhuman hybrids and whether Australia should have a silent lsquogrsquo, ju... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10522 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Reem AlgharabalistrongppAntony Loewenstein, author of the controversial emMy Israel Questionem, has his eye on the time. He tells me he has only 40 minutes for the interview which is unsurprising considering the number of media appearances and book promotional events he has been invited to... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10527 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Luke McAdambr strongbr A young Muslim girl, no more than 10 years old, peers with uncertainty at the mass of people around her. Her large dark eyes are deep pools, unblinking as they take in her surroundings. The girlrsquos mother trails behind, separated momentarily by the press of legs a... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10528 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Michelle Wattsbr strongbr Each of Guan Wei's 35 solo exhibitions tells a new story in a big space. His biggest painting, Feng Shui, measures 18 metres by six metres and he completed it in 2004. In the same year Cate Blanchett purchased one of his paintings.ppquotI think people like looking... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10529 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Bonny SymonsBrownstrongppChris Saunders loads up the back of his Holden Commodore. He is moving. Again. The new place is unfurnished, smells musty, feels unlived in and is just depressing.ppWith both hands on the wheel, he takes the M5 out of Sydney and heads south towards Griffith, his ne... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10480 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pA Sydney coronial inquest today heard of the disappearance of a top secret document which claimed that five Australian journalists at Balibo had been deliberately targeted and killed.ppGeorge Brownbill, a former Federal Government official for Gough Whitlam, told the NSW Coronerrsquos Court that he... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10479 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pA Commonwealth official ordered intelligence regarding the Balibo Five be destroyed, Glebe Coronerrsquos Court heard today.ppDr Gary Clintworth, who worked as a Duty Officer for the Australian Office of Current Intelligence OCI at the time the journalists died, appeared as a witness in the Brian Pe... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10501 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pThe bodies of the Balibo Five were ldquoburnt to a crisp,rdquo according to testimony by a former Australian intelligence officer at the Glebe Coroners Court today.ppMr Robin Dix, expert linguist and former translator at the Shoal Bay Defense Signals Directorate DSD, analysed and translated textual... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10481 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pIt may be 32 years late, but the truth about journalist Brian Petersrsquo death is finally coming to light.ppDeputy State Coroner Dorelle Pinch opened an inquest into his death this week at the New South Wales Coronerrsquos Court in Glebe.ppPeters, a Channel Nine cameraman, was in the Timorese vill... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10482 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pThe State Coronerrsquos Court heard testimony on Friday from two Timorese who tried to persuade Brian Peters and his fellow journalists to run away with them when Indonesians invaded.ppManuel Gast a de Silva, a member of the Fretilin independence movement, said he was only 16 years old at the time ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10492 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pResidents of Surry Hills have gathered to protest the proposed sale of the Crown Street reservoir land to developers. In what has become an important state election issue regarding the redevelopment of heritage sites, residents joined hands in front of the reservoir to coincide with the arrival of ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10502 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pRichard has been on the streets of Kings Cross for 20 or perhaps 30 years ndash he isnrsquot sure any more.ppWhat he can remember though is that at some point long ago he grew up surfing the breaks of Cronulla not far from his home on Parramatta Street.ppLike many teenagers, Richard experimented wi... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10503 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pGeorge Street bustles Cars hoot Black suits scatter, late for work again. Overhead, billboards cast shadows in the morning light. On one, a waifish model reclines for Calvin Klein. On another, a steely eyed youth bares his rippling stomach for Ralph Lauren. But in amongst the beautiful people, anot... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10504 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pIn August last year, Prime Minister John Howard complained that a quotsmall sectionquot of migrants, particularly Muslim migrants, a hrefhttpwww.pm.gov.aumediaInterview2006Interview2295.cfmwere resisting integration into Australian society and failing to learn English.appBy December, he had announc... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10505 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p aligncenter classpostedimg width475 height356 alt srchttpwww.reportage.uts.edu.austories2007societyfire.jpg ppLooking down from the Govetts Leap Lookout into the valley below, you can trace the line of fire from where it started as it crawled along the ridges ndash to where it jumped up and then d... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10506 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pInterest in renewable energy is at unprecedented levels says Dr Muriel Watt. She should know ndash the University of New South Wales academic has been turning up at sparsely attended conferences on the subject for a quarter of a century.nbspppldquoThis is the first time in 25 years I have seen poli... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10507 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pMichael sits in his Tuesday morning business meeting with his hands clenched together. He can feel the tension building. It is going to happen. Not a case of emifem, but emwhenem and how loud.ppThen it happens.nbspppMichael yelps. A quiet yelp, but a yelp nonetheless. He looks down at the notepad i... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10670 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pltstronggtBy Leah BoonthanomltstronggtppAt an abandoned garment factory on Gan Island in the Maldives, 12 yearold Ziyaadah lives in Mundoo tsunami camp with her family. Itrsquos been almost two and a half years since the tsunami struck the island nation, and the community is still trying to rebuild... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10508 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Helen Gregorybr strongbr Itrsquos a blustery Monday night and Rebecca, a knitting addict, has hurried to Harts Pub in The Rocks to get her fix. Sinking back into an emerald green armchair, eighties power ballads scream from the jukebox. Rebecca has come here for one reason to stitchhellipa... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10509 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p classposted styletextalign justifystrongBy Lauren Farrowbr strongbr Rob Valenti has twoinch long earlobes, is branded on his back, has numerous tattoos on his body and enjoys suspending himself using hooks inserted through his skin.pp styletextalign justifyAfter leaving school in Year 11, Rob took... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10510 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Marina Andrianbr strongbr A journey through the boroughs of European history reveals institutionalised traditional religion defined as a male domain. Throughout the defeminised centuries, goddess figures were often depicted as witches or as evil mystical females, let alone divine ones, hav... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10493 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pExperts and environmental groups have warned that the mercury content of energysaving light bulbs may become an environmental time bomb, unless governments and industry act quickly to create a national recycling infrastructure for the potentially toxic bulbs.ppThe warning comes just weeks after Env... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10494 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pON AUGUST 10 last year, NSW Labor member for the Illawarra, Marianne Saliba met her constituent Roseanne Catt who is campaigning for compensation for 10 years spent in prison for conspiracy to murder her husband and other offences, which were quashed in 2005.ppAt Salibarsquos suggestion, they met a... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10495 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pIt is a dreary Sunday morning, too early for most, but late enough for the birds who singsong as we, a passing parade of backpacks, hiking boots and nets, tramp past. Wersquore on a search for a platypus.ppUp until the 1970s, Excelsior Creek, Christmas Bush Creek and Darling Mills Creek mdash which... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10496 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pThe Australian government introduced significant changes to welfare policy in July 2006.ppThe legislation, called Welfare to Work, reduces welfare dependency, according to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations DEWR. The idea is to shift the disabled into the work force but there has ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10497 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pItrsquos 11am on a warm Saturday morning. Parents call out for their excited children to follow them up the timber landing mdash sleeping bags, toy shovels and buckets, and a box of VB in tow. The ferry backs out of Palm Beach Wharf and begins its cruise across glistening Pittwater.ppFor some the d... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10498 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Shireen MurphystrongppThe Australian independent media landscape is littered with the ruins of players who have failed to become commercially viable. The Independent Monthly, The Eye and The Republic all began full of hope only to taste the ashes of disappointment. With losses of at least ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10499 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Andrea BoothstrongppJudy Davis. Sigrid Thornton. John Bell, Colin Friels, Cate Blanchett. These Australian actorsrsquo names ring with acclaim and their reputations continue to grow. But the same canrsquot be said for the theatre that nurtured them. br br While the dramatic arts garnered m... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10500 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Yvette PoshoglianstrongppThis yearrsquos Sydney Arab Film Festival showcased the largest and most ambitious program of Arabic filmmaking ever screened in Sydney or indeed Australia. Featuring local and international artists, film and documentary makers, the 2007 program ran for over a mont... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10474 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pRusty hooks, dirty railings, potentially lethal chilling practices, and untrained staff with substance abuse issues are just some of the problems facing one small domestic abattoir in NSW, according to Barry Scanes, a third generation meat processor from Cooma, NSW.ppBut the domestic abattoir owner... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10483 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pMost Australians would assume they have a greater life expectancy than Nigerians. As citizens of the wealthy, peaceful, lsquolucky countryrsquo, we would expect to live longer, healthier lives than members of a poor nation only recently freed from 30 years of tyrannous military dictatorship.ppBut n... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10484 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pWhere other Sydney suburbs speak of revamped sidewalks and gentrified terraces, barredup windows and cracked pavement are the hallmark of Redfern around the infamous Block.ppBut according to the federal government the Block in Redfern is one of many urban and regional areas where money for Indigeno... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10485 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pIn September 2001, a Thai woman aged 27, Puangthong Simaplee, was discovered in a Sydney brothel during an immigration raid. She was taken into custody to Villawood immigration detention centre. Three days later she died from heroin withdrawal weighing 38 kilograms.ppSimaplee was not merely an ille... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10486 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pIt is estimated that 20 per cent of the Australian population will experience a mental disorder at some point in their lives and that mental illness costs 10 billion in lost productivity annually.ppIn April 2006 the Federal Government a hrefhttphealth.gov.auinternetministerspublishing.nsfContenthea... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10487 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pEvery morning Ae wakes up in her Surry Hills house and sets off on a five minute walk to her English language school. The young woman from Thailand, who already has a law degree, studies English all day and then works all night in a restaurant to make enough money to pay the rent. Two other student... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10488 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pAustralian federal politicians are out of step with the community on attitudes to international aid, a survey conducted by independent activist organisation AIDWATCH has found.ppWhile almost threequarters of politicians surveyed in the report supported pursuing lsquothe Australian national interest... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9583 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pThe Philippine Government is under international scrutiny after a damning UN report and an independent commission inquiry found that the Philippine's military was responsible for a number of extrajudiciary killings.ppOn March 31, the latest victim, a 9yearold girl was gunned down in the Compostela ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10489 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Anne Marie GeorgestrongppOn April 18, only days after the new crossmedia ownership laws came into effect, the nbspmerger of Fairfax Media with Rural Press Limited was approved by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ACCC and received overwhelming support by Rural Press shareh... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10491 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Sarah Tractonstrongpp styletextalign justifyThe province of Aceh lies at the northern tip of Sumatra, Indonesia. Sitting on the Pacific lsquoRing of Firersquo, an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the provincersquos capital Banda Aceh was the close... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9582 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Elaine McKewonstrongpp styletextalign justifyquotWhen you turn on the radio, you hear New Orleans. No matter where you are in the world. If you're in Leningrad, the taxi driver puts on New Orleans music. It's a city we all know about and should care about.quot br br ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10478 Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pThe former prime minister Gough Whitlam will be called to give evidence at the Balibo Five inquest at Glebe Coronerrsquos Court next week.ppWhitlam, 90, will give his testimony on Tuesday along with his former defence minister Bill Morrison and former head of the prime minister's department John Me... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10477 Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pMr Whitlam, 90, gave evidence today into the inquest of the death of Brian Peters at Glebe Coronerrsquos Court.ppMr. Whitlam maintained the same story he has told for the past 30 years, telling the inquest that he did not know the journalists were in East Timor, he was not aware that Balibo was bei... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10476 Wed, 09 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pA former news executive at the network that employed a number of the Balibo Five journalists who were killed in East Timor in 1975, has given evidence into the inquest of the death of Brian Peters at Glebe Coronerrsquos Court.ppGerald Stone was the National News Director for Channel Nine in 1975, w... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10475 Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pThe coronial inquest into the death of Brian Peters has heard two contradicting views on whether the Australian government knew about the existence and death of the five Australianbased newsmen killed in Balibo in 1975.ppDesmond Ball, Professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at Austral... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10454 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br Curran Public School sits in the middle of a maze of public housing culdesacs in the suburb of Macquarie Fields in SouthWestern Sydney. It seems like any other suburban school, with brightly coloured murals and the chatter of childrens voices, but Curran Public draws 98 per cent of its pupils fro... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10455 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br They have the ability to shape government policy but they arent political parties. They have the ear of John Howard and Kevin Rudd and yet theyre not accountable to voters. Their ranks swell with expoliticians, political strategists, highprofile economists and scientists.br br Are they some new s... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10456 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br Garry McLeay rides his bicycle from Newtown to work in Ultimo on weekdays, and into the CBD at least twice each week. As a seasoned rider who returned to Sydney recently after nineteen years living in Melbourne, he has noticed dramatic changes in social attitudes towards cyclists in the city.br b... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10457 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br Only a stones throw from Sydneys CBD, Redferns rundown reputation has long stood in stark contrast to its coveted central locale. While other innercity suburbs like Surry Hills and Pyrmont have been gentrified, RedfernWaterloo is now getting its own makeover.br br Since 2004 things have been set ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10458 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br South Sydney Rabbitohs players have begun paying regular visits to schools in Redfern as part of the Souths Cares initiative to keep Indigenous children in school and encourage them to lead a healthy lifestyle.br br We are not working for the local community, we are working with the local communi... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10464 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br The proposal to create a public art sculpture in Redfern has generated a mixed response, with some locals describing it as good for business and other locals describing it as ugly and a waste of money.br br The public art sculpture is a part of the 20 million Redfern street upgrade project an... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10452 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br Coal provides over 80 per cent of Australias electricity and is one of the cheapest forms of power generation in the world. Its not surprising then that governments are slow to alter a system that keeps consumers and industry happy with low cost power. But as carbon dioxide pollution is increasin... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10453 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Bonny SymonsBrownstrongbr br According to Joan Sauers, we need a revolution in the way we think about sex. The controversial author, who in February released the eyeopening Sex Lives of Australian Teenagers, is already working on her next instalment in the series, Sex Lives of Australian W... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10460 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Helen Gregorystrongbr br On the 10 May, over 300 Fairfax employees gathered outside the Sussex Street offices. The signs had been proclaiming their frustrations since 8am lsquoSydney Mourning Heraldrsquo, lsquoSOS SMH Save Our Heraldrsquo and lsquoUnFairFaxrsquo. br br They were voicing th... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10461 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Kim Balmannobr strongbr Miles from anywhere, in the middle of the South Australian desert lived a secret. br br Fortunately, the secret was revealed by journalist Cathy Carey who was given the opportunity via an Australian Centre for Independent Journalism ACIJ grant and peer support to ch... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10462 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy David RamlistrongppShe sits with her legs up on the couch and eases into a comfortable position. But as I pull out my pad, set up for recording and juggle polite lsquohellorsquo conversation, CatherineppCarey, the veteran TV producer lays into me. br br ldquoAnd do you feel as if yoursquov... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10459 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Danielle Nicastribr strongbr In gear, brakes released, metallic paint shining in the city streetlights, the fleet of metal spokes and flashing lights takes off down the road under the evening sky. br br On the last Friday of every month, a group of around 30 people gather at the Archibald ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10463 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Amy Perkinsbr strongbr In an exhibition at UTS Gallery from April 10 to May 11, Australian photographer Jon Lewis presented a series of confronting black and white photographs entitled Bougainville Portraits Facing the Place. br br Having travelled to the island province in 2002 and 2003, ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10466 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Kathryn Loughmanbr strongbr This yearrsquos Sydney Film Festival made cinema more accessible for a broader range of moviegoers with the inclusion of a new category of films called Accessible Cinema. The initiative was devised in collaboration with Accessible Arts NSW and aims to bring a mo... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10674 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Carl HolmstrongppThe moon would not rise for several hours. A dust storm swirled around the men and, advised by coalition military personnel not to move in case they were mistaken for enemy combatants, they had huddled in the lee of their vehicle to catch up on much needed sleep.ppTo their... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10443 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br It was meant to be a casual routine training run for the two Canadian Olympic yachtsmen leave the Middle Harbour Yacht club in the early morning, and return after lunch. With the Olympic Games mere months away, they wanted to get as much training as possible on Australian waters.br br They depart... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10444 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br Hanh Kieu Vi, 25, has come to the Cabramatta Community Centre to meet her case worker for the third time. She had to lie to get here. She told her husband she was going to buy groceries, and left before he realised she hadn't asked for money. She had already packed her few belongings into a small... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10445 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br It was shocking, I never thought that would have occurred in a place like that, says Australian immigrant Razi Islam.br br After successfully interviewing for a job in an investment bank, the PakistaniMuslim university student became privy to a conversation he believes discriminated against anoth... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10447 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br Patriotism begins at home, proclaims Christian Thornton, 23, as justification for the massive Eureka flag he draped across his parents front porch and a miniature flag sticks out of his green Holden Commodore, fluttering in the wind whenever he takes to the road.br br Eighteen months ago, Thornto... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10448 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br Young people deeply committed to politics are forever walking a tightrope. There is the constant struggle to balance ones life, juggling political obligations with work, family, study and social commitments. At 21, Camden Gilchrist is heavily involved with politics. He served as campaign director... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10449 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br It is about six in the morning. Daniel Robins, who happened not to sleep in his own bed that night, wakes up to a phone call from his housemate. He is informed that 12 police officers from NSW and Victoria, including members of a Counter Terrorism Coordination Command Investigation Unit, have r... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10450 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Anne Linstrongbr strongbr strongAn overhaul of Press Gallery licences and parliamentary house passes is under consideration in a move to clamp down on security at Parliament House. Senior journalists from a variety of news agencies have dismissed the proposals, calling for common sense to ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10446 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Emma O'NeillstrongppWho is an Australian Teacher Ola Issa put this question to her class of seven year olds at Malek Fahd Islamic School in Chullora. An Australian is someone who ldquodoesnrsquot understand our religion,rdquo said one. Someone who is ldquowhite with freckles,rdquo offered ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10451 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Alex Jonesbr strongbr Two young lovers lie on a towel on the sands of Coogee Beach. Fresh from a swim in the ocean, they are speckled with droplets of sea water that catch the light of the sun. Her head rests on his shoulder, obscuring his face from the camera thatrsquos taking their photo... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9585 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pSometime in the midnineties, a huge storm dumped a large load of fish on to a refugee camp in Kenya. This bizarre natural phenomenon was as fortuitous as it was unusual because the UN had failed to deliver rations for almost a month. Ahmed Mohamed Adam Ambady was there, and he smiles broadly at the... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9638 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign centerimg alt srchttpreportage.uts.edu.auimagesnewstraining.jpg ppMost of Australia's showgrounds today remain bare. The main ring, which should be alive with equestrian horses and competitors dressed in formal jackets and leather kneehigh boots, now browns and cracks in the drying ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9704 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign centerimg srchttpreportage.uts.edu.austories2007septemberimagesalexbainbridge.jpg alt ppWhile exclusive luncheons and leisurely zoo visits werenbsparranged for international dignitaries during the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation APEC forum, a highpowered water cannon and 500 jail b... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9706 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pWe have way of rating our household items for energy efficiency and sustainability, and also our car fuel consumption, but now we also have a way of rating our buildings.br br The Green Building Council of Australia, which is the Australian arm of the World Green Building Council, has recently intr... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9708 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign centerimg srchttpreportage.uts.edu.austories2007septemberimagesfastcar.jpg alt pp'It isnrsquot illegal unless you get caught.rsquo The slogan on Crocrsquos tshirt is appropriate as the 19yearold sits proudly behind the wheel of his Nissan 200SX. However, he nearly jumps out of his b... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9709 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign centerimg srchttpreportage.uts.edu.austories2007septemberimagesstolengen.jpg alt ph5 styletextalign centerBruce Trevorrow the first lsquostolen generationsrsquo victim to successfully sue the government. Photo Phoebe Azerh5pIn 1958, 13monthold Bruce Trevorrow was ldquostolenrdquo fr... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9710 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pIt has been ten years since the 700 page iThe Bringing Them Home Reporti was conceived and tabled in Federal Parliament. The inquiry was made to highlight the victims and their families that were affected by the forced removal of indigenous children occurring as little as fifty years ago.ppldquoThe... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9711 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign centerimg srchttpreportage.uts.edu.austories2007septemberimagesabbotsleigh.jpg alt ph5 styletextalign centerJoey Williams, Tara Winch and Anita Heissnbsp with students atnbsp Abbotsleigh Senior Schoolh5pThe Indigenous Literacy Day project asks people to imagine a world without books... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9707 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pA forum on international humanitarian aid hosted by Austcare has signalled the future direction of international humanitarian aid.br br Though charity is a term that Martine Letts, a director of Nonprofit Australia, refutes.br br ldquoIt is not about charity but capacity building and above all abou... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9712 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Jeanavive McGregorstrongpp styletextalign justifyWhen President George Bush announced in August that the lesson learnt from the Vietnam War was that American troops should remain in Iraq, Michael Gawendarsquos first thought was, ldquoisnrsquot that interesting.rdquob... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9713 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Julie Shingletonstrongpp styletextalign justifyldquoMuslims are like the fat kid in school or the kid with glasses hellip easy targets,rdquo said Kuranda Seyit, FAIR Executive Director, speaking on the portrayal of Muslims in Sydney media on August 20.br br ldquoThey... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9634 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pPeople of different religions, ethnicities and ages aggregated at the Martin Place on October 21 to show their support for Burmese who are suffering from the repressive junta.ppThe Sydney interfaith gathering, organised by the Catholic international aid group Caritas as part of the National Day of ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9632 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pThe sweat rolls down the side of his face as he moves towards the third teeoff.nbsp He places the dimpled white ball on a silver tee, walks over to his bag and withdraws a metalhead golf club.nbsp Squinting and using his hand to block out the sun, he sets his sight on the bright red flag sitting in... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9629 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pBeing mates with the United States isnrsquot cheap. Twenty two billion dollars is the sum allocated to defence in the 200708 budget and a large chunk of that will be spent on hitech military aircraft prescribed by the US that according to the government, is desperately needed.ppApproximately 6.2 of... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9631 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pHe felt it in his gut something just wasnrsquot right. Corporal Matt Howard, a supply truck driver for the US Marine Corps during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, was zooming north towards Baghdad when he pulled up at a military checkpoint.nbsp On the side of the road he saw a blown up bus. Shards of ste... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9635 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Julie ShingletonstrongppldquoI am 19, I donrsquot have a political voice in the mainstream media but I have found it onlinerdquo says journalism student Jacqueline Green. ldquoOnline means have given people who donrsquot normally have a voice a chance to enhance the political debaterdquo.p... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9637 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Eliza TicklestrongppWearing a knitted Mossimo vest in shades of pastel pink and blue, a pair of Lee lowslung, straightleg jeans and his quottrusty Addidas kickers,quot Dawson Ko, 24, is ready to tackle a new day's challenges.ppnbspquotItrsquos not easy for a sighted person to keep up with ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9636 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Fiona IvitsstrongppNot all of Sydneyrsquos art hangs on walls. Hidden down laneways, on footpaths, on front fences and garage doors, stencil artists ply their trade. Created using stencil cutouts and spray cans, stencils are quirky visual comments on the urban landscape, inspired by politi... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9628 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign leftstrongBy Tracey LienstrongppWaterbird numbers in central NSW have plunged to zero, according to researchers from the University of New South Wales.br br In a recent aerial survey conducted by UNSWrsquos senior lecturer in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10435 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br He felt it in his gut something just wasnt right. Corporal Matt Howard, a supply truck driver for the US Marine Corps during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, was zooming north towards Baghdad when he pulled up at a military checkpoint. On the side of the road he saw a blown up bus. Shards of steel and... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10436 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Jace Molanstrongbr br The sweat rolls down the side of his face as he moves towards the third teeoff. He places the dimpled white ball on a silver tee, walks over to his bag and withdraws a metalhead golf club. Squinting and using his hand to block out the sun, he se... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=9633 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pThe internet is seen by many as a bastion of free speech. However, new legislation proposed by the Federal Government would give the Australian Federal Police the power to censor what websites Australians can view, warns Stephen Blanks of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties.ppSpeaking l... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10431 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br Nurses are being forced to take on the role of police when criminals are brought into a mental health facility, according to an independent report.br br Under current NSW legislation police can bring a person who hascommitted a crime to a mental health facility for assessment instead of arresting... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10432 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br Sexual offenders are being convicted in NSW courts at an increasing rate, indicating successful law reform.br br Figures released in September by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research BOCSAR indicates progression in the past three years. Legislative flaws are being addressed, enabling v... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10423 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy strongBonny SymonsBrownstrongstrongppWhen it comes to fighting the scourge of AIDS in Africa it is landlocked Uganda, in the east of the continent, which has set the example. According to UNAIDS estimates, the country has seen a 50 per cent reduction in AIDS prevalence rates over the past ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10425 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 br In a quiet, dusty clearing in the village of Meligo, in the Bobonaro district of East Timor, five groups of widows set up shop for the day. Selling the same imported, packaged goods, there were few customers and the businesses struggled to survive.br br This was a scene that Australian researcher... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10427 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Julie Shingletonstrongbr br Speaking at the 2007 Public's Right to Know conference, former senior public servant Richard Mills reminded the Australian public of all the media management techniques the Howard government used to deafen damning assessments made about its decision to go to war... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10426 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Julie Shingletonbr strongbr In August 2006, Television New Zealand won a 20 year battle for the right to broadcast 80 seconds of footage exposing the French governmentrsquos responsibility for the only act of state terrorism ever carried out against New Zealand the sinking of the Rainbow W... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10428 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Benjamin Vozzostrongbr br At 11am on a Wednesday, just outside Home nightclub in Cockle Bay, music pounds from the tristory buildingrsquos insides. But itrsquos much softer than on a Friday or Saturday night the vibrations arenrsquot felt until I approach the grand retro style metal doors... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10430 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Charlotte Wheatley, Davide Crisante and Ben Hurleystrongbr br Among those who enjoy the ancient Chinese game of Mahjong are problem gamblers, who bet more than they can afford and chase their losses at unofficial venues across the country, bringing financial strife to themselves and their ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10429 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Maria Francostrongbr br RETIRED ENGINEERS WANTED Retired and bored Is sitting at home doing your head in Tired of seeing the same faces every day Donrsquot let your engineering knowhow go to wastebr br This is how Australiarsquos largest engineering consultancy, WorleyParsons, advertised f... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10419 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +1000 pUnder some of Australiarsquos richest farming land on the Liverpool Plains, to the south west of Tamworth, lies a coal seam potentially worth billions of dollars to BHP Biliton. But the local farmers fear that the Caroona Coal Project could contaminate the water supply for the area, devastating pro... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10901 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifybspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Felicity Evans and Mia Burnsspanbpdiv stylemargin 0cm 0cm 10pt textalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptMore than 300 people gathered at Redfern last Friday for the Coloured Diggers Anzac Day march to commemorate the Indigenous soldiers who served i... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10954 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongspan stylemsoansilanguage ENAUBy Mona Hwallaspanstrongpp styletextalign justifyspan stylemsoansilanguage ENAUThe Arabic Heritage League presented its 2008 Gibran International Award in fields of media, medicine and music at Bankstownrsquos Fontana Di Trevi reception hou... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10874 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Carmen Normoylespanstrongpdiv styletextalign justifynbspspan stylefontsize 10ptldquoBoring, boring, boringrdquo says Nicholas Huxley, reflecting on the designs presented at Australian Fashion Week in Sydney from 28 April to 2 May.nbspWhen it co... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10875 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Marcel Mirza Natadisastrastrongpdiv styletextalign justifyBrendan Espositorsquos gripping black and white portrait of two children sleeping roughly under a blanket captured the audience at the annual iHead Oni portrait photography competition hosted by the Australian Centre for Photography... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10879 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Justine DuntonRosespanstrongpdiv styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptYoung fashion designers stole the show at the prestigious Rosemount Australian Fashion Week RAFW, which kicked off on 28 April in Sydney.nbspspandivdiv styletextalign... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10872 Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pBystrong Angela Aldredstrongpimg srchttpwww.reportage.uts.edu.auimagesnewslocalrighttoresist.jpg width423 height238 altRight to Resist titleRight to Resist span stylefontsize 10ptpOn the night of April 13, in the Blue Mountains town of Katoomba, tourists and locals viewed some unusual decorations i... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10880 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifyb stylespan stylefontsize 10pt fontfamily 'Arial','sansserif'By Elise Dalleyopopspanbpp stylemargin 0cm 0cm 0pt textalign justify classMsoNormalspan stylefontsize 10pt fontfamily 'Arial','sansserif'With winter quickly approaching and night time temperatures dipping to an aver... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10878 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifybspan stylefontsize 10pt lineheight 115By Vicky Stojanovskaspanbpdiv stylemargin 0cm 0cm 10pt textalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10pt lineheight 115A new phenomenon called lsquocitizen journalismrsquo is on the rise.nbspWith the everexpanding capabilities of the Internet and... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10877 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifybspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Dheepthi Namasivayamspanbpdiv stylemargin 0cm 0cm 10pt textalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptIf iTime Internationalrsquos ieditor Michael Elliott has any worries about his staff, then it is the experienced journalists he is most concerned about.sp... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10876 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongspan stylefontsize 10pt lineheight 115By Vicky Stojanovskaspanstrongpdiv stylemargin 0cm 0cm 10pt textalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10pt lineheight 115Reigning search engine iGooglei is not a media company it is a global technology company who enjoy a close working re... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10881 Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifybfont size6span stylefontsize 10ptBy Paradise Laycockspanfontbpdiv styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptMULTIPLE Sclerosis sufferers will save up to 37,000 each year when Tysabri becomes subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme PBS in July. spandivdiv style... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10873 Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Bonita Silvastrongpp styletextalign justifyAwareness about Fair Trade in Australia has steadily risen particularly as supermarkets stock more and more varieties of Fair Trade products. But can free trade and Fair Trade work together to provide a sustainable outcomenb... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10955 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Mary Salibastrongbr br span stylefontsize 10ptZimbabwersquos future remains murky after the electoral recount by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ZEC from the March 29 presidential elections proved inconclusive. The results, released by the ZEC in late April called ... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10925 Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Melissa Sequeirastrongpp styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptFrom a distance, her silhouette reveals not only a subdued and timid woman, but a woman physically trapped by the barbed wire fence that imprisons her. spannbsppdiv styletextalign justifyspan style... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10926 Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifybspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Gemma Black spanbnbsppdiv styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptBare supermarket shelves, dry fuel pumps, a worthless currency and constant insecurity. For many Australians it is difficult to imagine life in a country like Zimbabwe. spandivdi... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=10924 Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Sascha Rynerstrongpp styletextalign justifyWalking through the airport, watching the planes land and take off, and hearing the sounds of her life, is enough to exhaust anyone. But the fastpaced action of the airport give me an indication of what her life has been lik... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11088 Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongspan langEN stylefontsize 10pt fontfamily 'Arial','sansserif' msoansilanguage ENBy Christina Zhouspanstrongpp styletextalign justifyspan langEN stylefontsize 10pt fontfamily 'Arial','sansserif' msoansilanguage ENUniversities across the state have become inundated with a... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11089 Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Danielle spanstrongstrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBowlingspanstrongnbsppdiv styletextalign justifyispan stylefontsize 10ptSum yourself up in three words. spanidivdiv styletextalign justifynbspdivdiv styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptKa... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11081 Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Danielle Bowlingspanstrongpdivdiv styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptBy the year 2020, depression will be second only to cardiovascular disease in the World Health Organisationrsquos list of significant diseases. spandivdivp styletext... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11292 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Emma Kempspannbspstrongpdiv styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptMitch Garrigan admits he will sometimes drive his mates from place to place late at night, often while under the influence of ecstasy, marijuana and alcohol. spandivdiv styletextalign justifynbs... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11313 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pbfont size6span stylefontsize 10ptBy Nastasia Campanellaspanfontbnbsppdivspan stylefontsize 10ptSNIFFER dog programs are one step closer towards being implemented in schools across NSW.spandivdivnbspdivdivspan stylefontsize 10ptThe program, set up by the Australian Federal Police AFP, Department of... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11655 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p classMsoNormal stylemargin 0cm 0cm 0ptspan stylefontsize 10pt color black fontfamily Arial msobidifontsize 12.0ptBy spanstrongspan stylefontsize 10pt fontfamily Arial msobidifontsize 12.0pt msofareastlanguage ENAUAlison Massyspanstrongspan stylefontsize 10pt fontfamily Arial msobidifontsize 12.0pt... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11325 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Bonita Silvaspanstrongpp styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptEnglandrsquos most prominent playwright has been subject to a memorable makeover from traditional Bard, to a man possessing many ldquofit bitchesrdquo. It is this candid humo... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11335 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pbispan stylefontsize 10ptBrett Hetheringtonspanibispan stylefontsize 10pt Do you think that dealing with various issues such as immigration and adapting to life here are easier or harder in a smaller town like Vilafranca compared to Barcelonaspanipdivbspan stylefontsize 10ptEl Hajj Ibrahim spanbspa... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11407 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Brett Hetheringtonspanstrongpdiv styletextalign justifyemstrongspan stylefontweight normal fontsize 10ptOPINIONspanstrongemstrongspan stylefontweight normal fontsize 10pt Marie Claire magazine recently ranked them at number four in their spanst... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11497 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pbBy Kate Lambbpdiv styletextalign justifyA heady mixture of bongo beats, a sea of brightly clad African women, singing and dancing amongst the aroma of freshly brewed ginger and cardamom coffee filled Bondi Junction mall on June 19 as one of Sydneyrsquos newest refugee communities gathered for a da... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11442 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongBy Brendan Wongstrongpp styletextalign centerimg height238 altSilver Beach width423 srchttpwww.reportage.uts.edu.auimagesnewsenvironmentsilverbeach.jpg pp styletextalign justifyVibrations reached 6.8 millimetres per second on the Richter scale, cracks on walls and floors of houses, and vehicl... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11656 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p classMsoNormal stylemargin 0cm 0cm 0pt textalign justifystrongspan langENUS stylefontsize 10pt fontfamily Arial msoansilanguage ENUS msobidifontsize 12.0ptBy Mark Gelaospanstrongpp classMsoNormal stylemargin 0cm 0cm 0pt textalign justifynbsppp classMsoNormal stylemargin 0cm 0cm 0pt textalign justi... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11336 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Hayley Reichmanstrongpdiv stylemargin 0cm 0cm 10ptWhere diplomacy fails, sport triumphs.nbspdivdiv stylemargin 0cm 0cm 10ptAs conflict rages in the Middle East, come August, it is Australia that will play host to peace. br br The Australian Football League Internatio... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11498 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Inga Tingspanstrongpp styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptIndigenous men in Sydney are rediscovering a sense of purpose and community through a hrefhttpwww.treocom.netbabanaBabana,a an Aboriginal menrsquos group that is encouraging men to speak out about hea... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11395 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Christine BaumanstrongppNestled amongst the brilliant blue sky, the sun bathes in its surroundings. The frolicking waves eagerly lick the sides of the boat and impishly douse its passengers in showers of sea spray. Gusts of wind briskly assault the skipperrsquos hair... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11554 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pstrongspan stylefontsize 10ptBy Emma Kempspanstrongpdiv styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptOn the night of the last Federal election, as people gathered across Australia for electionwatch gettogethers, there was one person who was invited into more than 1.12 million living rooms. That man... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11613 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +1000 pspan stylefontsize 10ptstrongBy Katrina Yustrongspannbsppdiv styletextalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptWhen we think of slavery, we often think of a horrific system which was abolished generations ago. But in reality the practice still thrives around the world, and exists in our very own communi... http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/news-detail.cfm?ItemId=11633 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +1000 p styletextalign justifystrongBy Christina Zhoustrongpdiv styletextjustify interideograph textalign justifyspan stylefontsize 10ptWhen the Art Gallery of NSW held an exhibition of work by manga artist Tezuka earlier this year, 30,000 visitors flocked to see it.spandivdiv styletextjustify interideogr...