The federal minister for immigration, Philip Ruddock, is attending a series of "consultative" public meetings on the government's migration and "humanitarian" programs. Resistance organised a protest action outside the public meeting in Perth on
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2,000,000 behind bars in the US
Washington, DC — The Washington DC-based Justice Policy Institute (JPI) reported at the beginning of this month that on February 15, the United States jail population would top 2 million for the first time. Using
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PNG students confront fee increase
The University of Papua New Guinea has charged 32 students with offences relating to protest actions held last October. The students were opposing plans to increase tuition fees by 25%
The following speech was presented as the opening address to Marxism 2000 conference, held in Sydney in January, by Cuba's consul to Australia, MARIA LUISA FERNANDEZ. The five-day conference, which was organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and
Students join Resistance
Resistance held stalls at numerous university Orientation Weeks between February 14 and 18.
Twenty people joined Resistance at the University of Newcastle. Western Sydney Resistance joined 10 people at the University of
Judging gender
Women appointed to the judiciary by Peter Beattie's Labor government in Queensland were there due to their gender, not their merit, former High Court chief justice Sir Harry Gibbs implied at a function at Brisbane's Supreme Court
Government villainy
Three acts of government villainy within a week show just how far the government's vicious drive against undocumented refugee arrivals has gone — and how much we must do to stop the government in its tracks.
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Ruddock, Court threaten detainees
By Sean Healy
Immigration minister Philip Ruddock took time out of his busy schedule on February 14 to personally warn asylum seekers at the Curtin air base in WA that if they make trouble again, they will all be
International Women's Day: unity does matter
Comment by Sarah Stephen
PERTH — In Perth this year there will be two International Women's Day rallies on March 11. One is the annual march and rally organised by the IWD Collective, the other is a
Indonesian police threaten Australian unionist
Indonesian police are threatening to imprison or deport Australian trade unionist Roger Smith. Smith, who works in Indonesia for the American Centre for International Labour Solidarity, has been
Campaign against fees
The campaign against tuition fees in England, Scotland and Wales is heating up. A four-day occupation of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London ended on January 29. It was part of a campaign to
By Michael Bull
MELBOURNE — Building unions' campaign for a 36-hour week and a 24% pay rise entered a dangerous new phase on February 16, when union job delegate Colin Reddie was bashed outside his workplace. Reddie, a member of the Construction,
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