Pensioner protests war on Iraq
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON - Anti-war activist Bob Bensemann cancelled his pension
on March 24 in reaction against the governments treatment of refugees
and its support for war on Iraq. In his letter to
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BY ERIN KILLION
Jane Keogh is a refugee-rights activist in the Canberra Refugee Action Committee. After visiting Baxter detention center in January, she spoke to Green Left Weekly about the conditions in the centre.
Keogh met 41 people in the
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — On April 8, the County Court was told that all matters relating to the Skilled Engineering and Johnson Tiles cases between the prosecution and all of the 15 unionists except Craig Johnston had been settled.
The
Weapons for mass destruction...
"We are talking about finding a site of possible weapons of mass destruction." — US Army's 3rd Infantry Division spokesperson Major Ross Coffman on the March 23 discovery of a chemical factory south of Baghdad,
A monstrous lie
On April 8, the Pentagon revealed that an Iraqi factory near Hindiya,
south of Baghdad, which the US invaders had originally told journalists
was a facility for producing the nerve agent sarin, was, in fact, a
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Former Australian diplomat Tony Kevin has this month been awarded international whistleblower of the year by the respected UK-based organisation Index on Censorship.
The citation for Kevin's award reads: "The former Australian
BY ALISON
DELLIT
More than 30,000 people joined Palm Sunday marches for peace on April
13.
The largest marches were the 15,000-strong protest in Sydney and a 10,000-strong
protest in Melbourne. In Adelaide, 3000 marched, 1500 in Brisbane,
BY PAMELA CURR
This could also be titled "What every man woman and child can be subjected to in the detention camps under the migration act". Read it, and then ask yourself how you would feel if, in order to visit a friend in another detention
BY
EMMA CLANCY
The last few months have been a period of political awakening for
thousands of teenagers. Through protesting against the war on Iraq, many
young people have gotten involved in political activity for the first time.
But their
Two-and-a-half-thousand university students from campuses around Australia took to the streets on April 10 in opposition to the governments proposed "reforms" to higher education.
BY ALISON DELLIT
Australian companies have joined the queue for contracts to rebuild Iraq, the country that Australia has just helped destroy. At the same time, Prime Minister John Howard has confirmed that the Australian military will help occupy
In Shifting Sands: the Truth About UNSCOM and the Disarming of IraqWritten and directed by Scott RitterNow showing at: the Valhalla, Sydney (phone 9552 2456 for session details); the Nova, Melbourne (9347 2573); and the Schonell Twin, Brisbane (3377
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