BY SARAH STEPHEN
On February 20, a Senate committee began investigating what the government knew about false allegations that asylum seekers threw their children overboard.
In March, retired diplomat Tony Kevin alleged that Australian navy
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BY ALISON DELLIT
On August 27, the Bega valley shire unanimously voted to support the work of Rural Australians for Refugees, support in principle an RAR proposal for "Welcome Towns" to host asylum seekers and to encourage the government to reduce
Pinochet's coup remembered
ADELAIDE The Socialist Alliance hosted a public meeting on September 4 to mark the US-backed military coup that overthrew the elected left-wing government of President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.
In these awful times, as we struggle to understand what is happening to our world, we must keep in mind the events of the recent past.
At dawn on September 11, he received his orders.While others would attack the citadels of commerce and defenceTo
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE Nine young East Timorese community radio workers arrived
here on August 31 as part of a month-long training program hosted by 3CR
community radio. Coming from six Timorese radio stations, they will be
BY MARCE CAMERON
BRISBANE On the evening of September 5, Prime Minister John Howard
visited the University of Queensland to give a talk about leadership qualities
in today's world. However, he was met by 350 angry students who were
BY ALISON DELLIT
In a two-page
spread in the September 3 Bulletin (which hit newsstands on August
27), leading Packer political commentator Laurie Oakes argued that A split
[in the Democrats] would be the quickest, cleanest solution to
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UNITED STATES: Bush forest fire plan: log it all
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
George Bush, fresh off a brush clearing operation at his Crawford ranch, snubbed the Earth Summit in Johannesburg for a trip to Oregon, where he vowed to fight future
Naked Among Cannibals: What Really Happens Inside
Australian BanksBy Graham HandAllen & Unwin, 2001306 pages, $29.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Banks are the most hated companies in Australia. Their expansive greed drives constant branch
In the article "Victorian AMWU stewards unanimously back leaders" by Sue Bull (GLW #506) it was reported that: "Dave Harrison, Queensland state secretary told organisers' meetings in that state that the union is prepared to sue the Victorian
BY SIMON CUNICH
& MARK CUNICH
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More than 80 students from The Illawarra Grammar School attended a lunchtime
concert and meeting in support of refugees' rights on September 6. At the
meeting the students voted unanimously
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY Several hundred participants are expected to attend the inaugural Sydney Social Forum (SSF) on the September 21-22 weekend. The forum, to be held at the Haymarket campus of the University of Technology Sydney, will
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