BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — Activists representing the Wilderness Society, the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, the Democratic Socialist Party, the International Socialist Organisation, the NSW Greens and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
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Melbourne greets Tampa
MELBOURNE — On May 16 the MV Tampa was greeted by a flotilla of boats organised by both the Refugee Action Collective-Victoria and the City of Port Phillip.
Messages of support for Captain Arne Rinnan's rescuing of
REVIEW BY
ELIZABETH TERZAKI
Since September 11, the media has dedicated itself to dishonesty
and spinelessness in its support of George Bush's war on terrorism.
Need some air? Then pick up a copy of Terrorism and War,
a collection
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE - The Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing
Workers Union has found itself under major attack from both its national
office and the state government, in what many of the union's supporters
believe is an
[The following is a slightly abridged version of a speech given by
Sarah Stephen, a member of the Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific
brigade to East Timor, at a protest organised by a number of East Timorese
groups in Dili on
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — Relatives of Shahraz Kayani, who died as a result of setting himself alight on the Parliament House forecourt on April 2, 2001, have been prevented from coming to Australia on the anniversary of his death. On May 27,
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — "If it wasn't for the Tampa, we'd have a Labor government today", former NSW premier Neville Wran told a May 23 Labor for Refugees forum which heard calls for an end to the government's present policy towards asylum seekers.
BY SUE CAMPBELL-ROBERTS
SYDNEY How do 17 emerging artists respond to the Australian government's treatment of asylum seekers? With an exhibition of powerful new art works focussing on the individual and collective meaning of journey,
BY SEAN HEALY
Out of sight of the world, a humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions
is unfolding in Angola, as perhaps hundreds of thousands of people flee
the grey zones, the 90% of the country which have until now been closed
to
BY SARAH STEPHEN
DILI May 19 marked the turning point of a historic period of transition
for the East Timorese people. It was the last day of operation for the
UN Transitional Administration of East Timor (UNTAET), bringing to a close
'Peace for the world - pretzels for Bush'
A crowd of 50,000-70,000 rallied on May 21 in Berlin against George
Bush's phony war on terror, preparing to give the US president a not
so much warm as heated welcome to the city when he arrived
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — In his first few weeks as prime minister, Tony Blair made a number of symbolic gestures. One of them was to visit the Aylesbury estate in South London, where the poor lived.
The stairs of the rough-cast concrete estate
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