BY ALISON DELLIT
As the 2001 federal election approaches, immigration minister Philip
Ruddock has signalled that the government intends to make racist scapegoating
of refugees a central part of its re-election strategy.
Launching the
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BY NORM DIXON
Television viewers across the world could be forgiven for believing
that rural Britain has been struck down by a plague of biblical proportions.
Nightly, as the foot and mouth disease (FMD) crisis unfolded, breathless
The mouth of a tiger?
"What is safer than being in the hands of the police?" — Malaysian deputy national police chief Jamil Johari, responding to accusations that people arrested under the Internal Security Act have been mistreated.
Also?
BY SEAN HEALY
A major international trade union confederation has told the World Trade Organisation that, in its view, the trade body has learned nothing from the defeat of attempts to launch a new, comprehensive round of trade talks at its last
100 years of service ... to capitalism
When the likes of Kim Beazley, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke swell with
pride at something, you know it must really stink.
On May 8, Labor leaders, past and present, gathered in Melbourne to
Getting Justice Wrong: Myths Media and CrimeBy Nicholas CowderyAllen & Unwin, 2001$19.95
BY KAREN FLETCHER
Law and order politics have been the ticket to success for many an ignorant and talent-less politician or media "commentator". A really
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Thirty-five people, including members of the Indigenous Student Network from New South Wales and ACT, Arbunna elder Kevin Buzzacott and elder Ray Jackson, attended the newly formed Indigenous Solidarity Action Collective
Curtin impugned
Your denunciation of militarism ("Lest we forget what?", Editorial, GLW #446) was weakened by the attack on Labor's World War II PM, John Curtin. It was "Pig Iron Bob" Menzies, not Curtin, who sent Australian troops to the Middle
BY EVA CHENG
Five hundred Chinese workers in Israel have been on strike since late March, demanding they be paid two years' worth of unpaid wages, even though Chinese authorities have threatened them with seven years' imprisonment if they
REVIEW BY JOHN TRACEY
BRISBANE — Theresa Creed has just recorded her first album, Unfinished Business, at Ando's Kitchen recording studio on the Gold Coast. It will be released through 4ZZZ's Zedhead Records later this year.
Creed was born at
BY JIM GREEN
Corporate polluters have enrolled powerful allies in their efforts
to prevent restrictions on the emissions of greenhouse gases politicians,
bureaucrats, public relations firms, corporate front groups, conservative
A recurring issue at CHOGM has been the homophobic comments by some of its members. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe grabbed the world's attention on this issue when he described gay men and lesbians as "pigs and dogs" at the CHOGM in Durban in
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