BY ALISON DELLIT
January 1 marked the formal end of the 10-year process of "reconciliation" between black and white Australians set up in 1991 by the Hawke Labor government. This process, Labor argued, would address the past injustices inflicted on
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BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — Community activists from Richmond, Penrith and across the Blue Mountains are organising to stop a new women's prison from being built in Windsor, on the city's western outskirts. They say the state government should
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — The Department of Corrective Services has released statistics for the September quarter on imprisonment rates in Australia. These figures show that the average daily number of people in prison has steadily increased from
BY SEAN HEALY
After a year-long, increasingly desperate search, the World Trade Organisation's general council has finally confirmed the venue for its next ministerial summit: the Persian Gulf state of Qatar.
WTO bureaucrats and rich country
BY ISAM AL-KHAFAJI
When Turkey sent 10,000 soldiers into northern Iraq in late December, the event passed almost unnoticed by the international media. Turkish incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan have become routine.
As on previous occasions, Turkish
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
DARWIN — Twenty spirited demonstrators chanted "Deport Ruddock, not the refugees" in protest at an appearance by the minister for immigration at a meeting here on February 1.
The meeting, attended by 100 people, was part of
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Adelaide: Feb 17, noon-2pm. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, Nth Adelaide. Ph 8231 6982.
Brisbane: International Women's Day Collective meeting. Mon Feb 12, 6.30pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. All women welcome. Ph 3831
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Retail workers at the K&D chain of hardware stores grudgingly voted to accept an enterprise agreement on January 22 that offered a pay increase of less than 4.5% a year in exchange for an erosion of conditions,
PORTO ALEGRE — The World Social Forum was awash with debates. Lack of space prevents anything like a full account of these (some of which will be covered in future issues of Green Left Weekly), but among the most important were:
The state of the
BY NORM DIXON
Talks between the Papua New Guinea government and Bougainville leaders on January 26 have finally resulted in an agreement to hold a referendum in which the people of Bougainville will be given the option to choose independence —
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — As the February 10 state election looms, the major parties are whipping up hysteria over Western Australia's non-existent "crime wave". The Liberals, the Labor Party and the Australian Democrats are competing to
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