BY ALEX SALMON & JULIANNE GREEN
PERTH The June 22 component of the June 22-23 national mobilisations
to demand that the Australian government end the mandatory detention of
asylum seekers attracted good crowds. More than 800 people
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Elisabeth tires of her abusive alcoholic husband, so she packs her bags, takes her children and goes off to live with her brother, Goran. Elisabeth is a fairly
BY PETER BOYLE
The world has never produced so much food, there is no overall shortage and food has seldom been so cheap — yet some 800 million people are hungry today. That's the stark reality registered at the second World Food Summit held in
BY LYNDA HANSEN
BRISBANE — "Pharmaceuticals should be free", declared Mwampole Rita Bridgwood as she addressed a forum on "Africa: a HIV crisis" organised by Amnesty International and Oxfam Community Aid Abroad in West End on June 18. Bridgwood
Axis of misogyny
"We have realised that without countries like Sudan, abortion would have been recognised as a universal human right in a UN document" — Austin Ruse, president of the US Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, quoted in the
ALEX MILNE& TARO KEEFE
Are you worried about the greenhouse gases which are emitted by our coal electricity generators? Does it concern you that every time you turn on a light or boil a kettle you are contributing to global warming? Fear not, the
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — The Socialist Alliance has announced what it describes as "the most ambitions socialist campaign ever for a Tasmanian state election". The Tasmanian Labor government has called an early election for July 20.
"We will
Nation or religion?
Shua Garfield (Write On #495) rightly claims Jews can live peaceably among non-Jews but he must admit to do so they often have to accept and suffer anti-Semitism wherever they so choose to live, hence the Zionist allure of a
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Four people were arrested on June 18 as police and security guards moved in to allow the commencement of surveying and earthmoving works at the site of the proposed nuclear food irradiation facility at Narangba industrial
BY ALAN MAASS
On June 10, the US attorney general John Ashcroft announced that an alleged al Qaeda operative, who was plotting to set off a bomb packed with radioactive material in Washington, DC, had been arrested.
The announcement sparked a
BY ANNE COOMBS
Before the arrival of the MV Tampa off Christmas Island last August, the locals were accustomed to "boat people" landing on their island. There was an accepted procedure: One of the port barges would go out with police and a customs
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