The first economic analysis of growing genetically modified crops on a wide scale has found that the biggest winners were the farmers who decided not to grow them.

Hugh Pickens writes "Ars Technica reports that with the release of the 'near-final' ACTA text (PDF), it is becoming clear that the US has caved on the most egregious provisions from earlier drafts (advocating 'three strikes' regimes, ordering ISPs to develop anti-piracy plans, promoting tough DRM anticircumvention language, setting up a 'takedown' notification system, ordering 'secondary liability

Anna Baltzer is an award-winning lecturer & granddaughter of Holocaust refugees speaking about the non-violence movement for justice in Palestine. Austen Lecture Theatre, Arts Faculty (next to Reid Library), University of WA. Entry by donation. Organised by Friends of Palestine.

Come along to the BHP Annual General Meeting and find out more about BHP Billiton's record and dish out a spoonful of corporate responsibility to the world's largest diversified resources company. Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, 21 Mounts Bay Rd, Perth.

The asylum seeker boat Australia didn't rescue 9 years ago sank, drowning hundreds. Has refugees' lot improved? Speaker from Iraqi community, Andrew Bartlett and others. King George Square. Further info: Refugee Action Collective, 3392 3843.

Activist conference in support of Palestine. Oct 29-31. Melbourne. Endorsed by the Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions. Visit .