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Peggy Errey remembered

BY MARG PERROT WOLLONGONG — The life of prominent union leader and left political activist Peggy Errey was commemorated by 150 people at her funeral in Wollongong on December 5. Peggy Errey was born in Ireland in 1914 to a staunchly republican

News Briefs

Ruddock sued for $750,000 SYDNEY — Iranian refugees Mohammed and Zahraa Badraie announced on December 3 that they would seek $750,000 in compensation from the federal government for the psychological trauma and suffering inflicted on their

Harry Quick: 'I'll vote against the war'

HARRY QUICK, ALP federal MP for Franklin in Tasmania and deputy opposition whip, spoke to Green Left Weekly's JAMES VASSILOPOULOS about the impending war against Iraq. Why do you oppose the planned war on Iraq? I've always been a pacifist. My

Tunisian asylum seeker to be deported

BY SARAH STEPHEN A Tunisian asylum seeker held in Woomera detention centre faces "voluntary" deportation to Syria in late December, along with two Palestinian men. They are the latest victims of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and

Government rejects ASIO bill amendments

BY ALISON DELLIT Despite another critical Senate committee report, federal attorney-general Daryl Williams has again refused to accept amendments to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation (Terrorism) Amendment Bill.

Judy Davis: 'We do not support your war'

BY JUDY DAVIS I remember my horror the day in 1991 that the US military attacked the retreating Iraqi army on the road from Kuwait to Basra in Iraq. The war had been won, Saddam Hussein had announced a complete troop withdrawal from Kuwait in

AFGHANISTAN: The nuclear nightmare begins

BY DAVEY GARLAND When questions were asked in the British parliament a year ago about whether depleted uranium (DU) weapons had been used in the military strikes on Afghanistan, "It is not being used at present" was defence minister Geoff Hoon's

LEBANON: Palestinian refugees call for support

Green Left Weekly's SARAH STEPHEN spoke to OLFAT MAHMOUD, executive director of the Women's Humanitarian Organisation, when she visited Australia in November. WHO provides humanitarian assistance to some 350,000 Palestinian refugees in

BRITAIN: Blair takes on the firefighters

BY PAUL CLARKE LONDON — Britain's firefighters are locked in a bitter battle over pay and conditions with British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-wing New Labour government. The struggle has been dubbed by some commentators "Blair's miners'

CANADA: Indigenous activist harassed

BY JEFF SHANTZ TORONTO — Sunkmanitu Tanka Isnala Najin, or Wolf Smoke, is an Indigenous person of Mohawk, Lakota and Seneca heritage. His tireless defence of Indigenous people's rights in North America has brought down the wrath of the Canadian

Christmas parade floats cause a stir

BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE HOBART — Two floats in the November 30 Launceston Christmas parade have sparked a string of letters in the Examiner, the town's daily tabloid. The Peace on Earth float was entered by a coalition of No War on Iraq,

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