By Lisa Macdonald
The arrival of 18 East Timorese boat people in Darwin on May 30 has created a major headache for the ALP federal government.
Several thousand East Timorese have fled to Australia by various means since the brutal invasion
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Anzac Day
By Karl-Erik Paasonen
I've seen the diggers marching under flapping flags
Flanked by police on repression-trained nags
And when I think of what it means my jaw just sags
And I want to march on Anzac Day
Cos I've done
By Paul Petersen
Immigration has long been tied to economic expediency. In days gone by, plane loads of migrants have been diverted from their destinations to ensure that industrial centres were supplied with workers. Consequently the NSW
Looking out: If children could vote
By Brandon Astor Jones
"First World privilege and Third World deprivation and rage are struggling to coexist not only in our nation's capital but all over an America that has the capacity but not the
By Mireya Castaneda
The only thing missing was the confession of the criminal. And now it's here. The German magazine Stern has published extracts of the unedited Memoirs of Captain Waldemar Pabst, the man who organised the arrest and murder of
By Jason Wehling
Since the last US election, the political left has been sent reeling. We have been told that this victory spells a new revolution, a revolution for the right. Interestingly, a Rand Corporation researcher, David Ronfeldt, argues
Bikini people reject N-waste plans
On May 16 the Bikini people of the Marshall Islands rejected a proposal to store nuclear waste on one of their islands contaminated by US nuclear testing in the 1950s.
After two days of intense discussion
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Alexander Lukashenko was elected president of Belarus — a republic of 10 million people on Russia's western border — by a big majority last July. He ran as an independent waging a classic "anti-politician"
Greens attack inaction on West Papua killings
WA Greens Senator Dee Margetts has criticised the federal government's lack of response to the alleged killings of 37 villagers by Indonesian troops at the Freeport Mine in West Papua.
"The
Unions rethink ANL privatisation
By Jennifer Thompson
The Maritime Union's (MUA) favoured bidder for the publicly owned shipping company, the Australian National Line (ANL), withdrew its bid on May 22, sparking a rethink on union agreement
Racism and the media
By Sujatha Fernandes
In 1984, the right-wing historian Geoffrey Blainey first argued that Asian immigration should be cut because Asians compete with "Australians" for jobs, education and scarce resources, and this
Write on: letters to the editor
World War II — 1
In his article "Who really won the second world war?" (GLW, May 24), Sean Healy fails to mention the Munich agreement of 1938 which gave Hitler the green light to take over Czechoslovakia
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