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Student conference to welcome refugees BY FEDERICO FUENTES PERTH — The collective organising the July 7-13 Students and Sustainability (S&S) conference, to be held at Murdoch University, has declared that it will give sanctuary to
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG BRISBANE — The current dispute between the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) and Premier Peter Beattie's Labor government (see article on page 2) is the latest in a series of industrial challenges facing the government since its
INDONESIA The IMF: A globalising debate BY MAX LANE JAKARTA — The debate between minister Kwik Kian Gie, who is in charge of the National Economic Planning Board, and the other ministers in President Megawati Sukarnoputri's cabinet
UNITED STATES Enron, WorldCom — there's worse to come BY PETER BOYLE The timing was spectacular. On June 24, US President George Bush delivered a lecture to the Palestinian people about the corrupt and autocratic nature of the elected
[The following remarks by Booker Prize winning author THOMAS KENEALLY were read out to the June 23 World Refugee Week rally in Sydney.] I am disappointed I cannot be there today to add my voice to yours. Like you, I consider the compulsory
BY LISA MACDONALD  More than 13,000 people joined refugees' rights protests around Australia on the June 22-23 weekend. In many cities, these were the largest protests for refugees yet. According to refugees' rights supporters, this is