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BY DOUG LORIMER When Australian Federal Police raided the homes of 10 Iranian Australians on June 3, the AFP agents carried warrants authorising them to seize information relating to refugees' rights organisations and the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK),
BY TIM GOODEN GEELONG — On June 11, 100 people attended a public meeting convened by Gavin O'Connor, ALP MP member for the federal seat of Corio, to hear speakers talk about defending Medicare. The meeting was addressed by Australian Nursing
BY EVA CHENG When the world's six top business clubs unite to call on the eight most powerful governments to help breathe new life into global trade talks, you can be sure those negotiations have hit a rock. The European Round of Industrialists,
BY JON LAND NEWCASTLE — A bunch of local and national musicians are banding together to put on a huge fundraising event at the Civic Theatre on June 29 for War Child, an organisation that raises awareness of the struggle for survival facing
BY CHRISTINE HOWES Chances are, if you happen into a library or government building around Brisbane, there will be a painting, mural or sculpture depicting some aspect of Aboriginal life or portrait of an Aboriginal person. Chances are also high
The Morris McMahon picket has entered its 14th week. Community pickets are being held at the factory gate every Thursday morning at 6.30am, 34 Arncliffe St, Arncliffe. From Green Left Weekly, June 18, 2003. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.
ADELAIDE — Seventy people attended the launch of the Children of the Gulf War photographic exhibition at the University of Adelaide on June 10. The display features photos by Takashi Morizumi. Former Baghdad-based "human shield" Ruth Russell told
BY ELENA JEFFRIES PERTH — Following the campaign against the WA Prostitution Control Bill 2003, the fight for sex workers' rights faces a new challenge, with the forced closure of both SWOPWA (the street sex worker outreach project) and the
BY STEPHEN GARVEY MELBOURNE — ACI Mould Manufacturing took the provocative action over the June 7-9 long weekend of issuing workers at its Box Hill plant with a notice that they would be locked out for a month from June 16 to July 18. The 77
BY LEIGH HUGHES ADELAIDE — Student anti-war activists won a campaign for corporate accountability at Flinders University on June 11. The academic senate has agreed to establish a working group to investigate ties between corporate sponsors and
BY CHRIS ATKINSON & JESS MELVIN There could have been few places as full of pro-war fever in the last few months as the USA. Nevertheless, a vibrant and passionate movement opposed the war on Iraq. US anti-war student activist DANI BARLEY will be a
By JAMES BALOWSKI JAKARTA — Just hours after claiming significant progress in its operation to crush the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and its supporters, the Indonesian military (TNI) on June 9 lost seven soldiers in an ambush in the Bireuen regency