BY GEOFF PAYNE
NEWCASTLE — For those who don't know, Newcastle is a beautiful city. The sight of a massive bulk carrier being pulled and pushed into place by its attendant tugs is common. Even more special is when the ship appears, then
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BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — On August 17, nearly 100 people attended a meeting at Trades Hall to launch of the Fair Go campaign. The meeting was sponsored by a coalition of groups including the Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC), the Ethnic
BY EMMA MURPHY
ADELAIDE — The August 13 City Messenger ran a front-page article that supported abandoning "dry zone" by-laws in the South Australian capital's city centre.
In the article, the Catholic Church's vicar-general Monsignor David
BY SARAH STEPHEN
According to refugee supporters who are in regular contact with asylum seekers in the Baxter detention centre, on August 22 there were a number of suicide attempts following news that more than a dozen Iranian asylum seekers faced
BY REBECCA CONROY
SYDNEY — What do Indonesian factory workers making theatre in their spare time have in common with radical TV producers working out of a shack in Marrickville?
In February, a rag-tag crew of community TV producers will be
BY MARY CROCK
Australia has had a strange love-hate relationship with refugees for as long as anyone can remember. We have accepted more than 650,000 refugees as migrants since World War II, as part of the "planned" program pursued to build
Expert opinion
"You'd be taking them to the Better Business Bureau if you bought a washing machine the way we went into the war in Iraq." — Former NATO commander and retired US Army general Wesley Clark, commenting August 17, on the White House
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — After trying for months to split the Walk Against the War Coalition (WAWC), the ALP finally managed to get its way on August 18. At a special meeting of the coalition, attended by close to 100 people, the ALP mustered the
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