BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — Four of the seven Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members charged over alleged vandalism during a "run-through" at office of Skilled Engineering in Box Hill on June 15, 2001, have been committed to stand
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
Immigration minister Philip Ruddock, in the June 7 Canberra Times, warned public servants not to get involved in politics by supporting the World Refugee Day rallies for refugees' rights on June 22-23.
Andrew Hall, spokesperson
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — More than 10,000 Queensland public hospital nurses struck for up to 24 hours on June 20 in support of their claims for pay rises and improved working conditions. The nurses voted unanimously at rallies around the state to
Under the shadow of the bomb
Jang aur Aman (War and Peace)Directed by Anand PatwardhanScreened at the 49th Sydney Film Festival
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
Since it became formally independent 55 years ago, India has hardly known peace. The country has
It's a shadowy, unaccountable transnational organisation, dispensing bribes to the Third World and riddled with corruption. No, not the IMF, but FIFA — the international football federation that runs soccer's World Cup.
On May 29, just days
We are looking for any musicians interested in performing at a Rock for the Refugees benefit concert to be held in Sydney some time in August.
We want to hear from any artists who can help out. Please contact Mike Cook at
BY EVA CHENG
In the latest attack on a growing struggle by peasants for land rights in Punjab, police raided seven villages in the Khanewal district on June 8. Eight people were arrested. Many more would have been detained had it not been for the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
If the 1100 Afghan asylum seekers being detained in Australia, Nauru and Manus Island had been allowed to apply for refugee status when they first arrived, most would already have been resettled in Australia. Now, after the ousting
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem has conducted an investigation into the murder of Murad 'Awaisa, a 17-year-old Palestinian. 'Awaisa was killed in Ramallah at the beginning of Israel's bloody "Operation Defensive
CANBERRA — The immigration department announced on June 20 that a further 372 asylum seekers on Nauru had received decisions on their applications for refugee status. Only 15 were recognised as refugees.
To date, 1141 asylum seekers have had
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki made the cover of the June 10 international edition of Time magazine, with the misleading headline: "He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — The Western Australian Labor government has passed legislation that will allow WA police to conduct compulsory DNA tests.
By November 1, WA police will routinely obtain DNA samples from a wide range of suspects,
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