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BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Leading indigenous rights activist and Queensland Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance, Sam Watson, on August 29 condemned the Australian government's refusal to allow refugees aboard the Norwegian cargo ship MS
BY JANA DK
DILI — In its first major mobilisation since the beginning of East Timor's election campaign, on August 25 some 5000 Timorese Socialist Party members and supporters gathered at Dili's Independence Field for one of the most energetic,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Determined to remake himself as a strong, decisive leader, Prime Minister John Howard declared in parliament on August 29, "That boat will never land in our waters — never!" Decked out in full combat gear, complete with automatic
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
Ngadinah binti Abu Mawardi made Indonesian history on August 30 when she became one of the first workers to defend herself in a court of law and win.
The factory worker, who produces merchandise for giant Western sportswear
SYDNEY — Supporters of the Penrith Women's Health Centre and the Warehouse handed out leaflets around the Penrith shops, in Sydney's far-west, on August 31. The action was part of a state-wide day of action against sexual violence. A tree planting
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Benchmark targets for Tasmania Together were released on September 3. Tasmania Together is the state Labor government's consultation program designed to draw up "goals" and "visions" for the state by 2020.
There are
Build the anti-corporate movement
SYDNEY — Students from all over the dispersed Penrith campus of the University of Western Sydney gathered on September 6 to discuss building the anti-corporate movement.
Participants left the meeting determined
BHP Billiton
The BHP Billiton corporation, which was born with recent merger of Australian mining giant BHP and the London-headquartered South African Billiton resources company, made a monster profit of US$2.189 billion in the last financial
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo RevolutionBy CLR JAMESPenguin, 2001364 pp, $22(pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Which country defeated the largest ever invasion force sent by Britain in its colonial heyday? Which country
Environmentally sustainable death
"Neither do you want to pollute your own environment, nor do you want to put your own policemen and soldiers at risk." — Professor Thomas Klaptoke of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany,
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — The Australian Industrial Relations Commission has ruled that Yallourn Energy's draft enterprise agreement, known as EB2000, should be adopted as the award governing workers' pay and conditions, despite its rejection in
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