Coming out of the October 9 federal elections, it seems that Family First candidate Steven Fielding may have the balance of power in the Senate, after receiving just 42,560 votes, because most parties, including Labor and the Democrats, preferenced
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Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Postgraduate students at Charles Darwin University have declared their determination to continue to fight university management attempts to relocate 35 postgraduate research students to what they are calling "holding pens".
This is a man's account of Australasian Correctional Management (ACM) and immigration department (DIMA) staff's attempt to forcibly deport him from Villawood detention centre.
I'd been informed by the DIMA for the first time on 11 October 1999 I am
Sarah Stephen
Plans are underway for a national convergence on Canberra on November 16, the first sitting day of federal parliament since the October 9 federal election returned the Coalition to government.
The convergence is a joint initiative
REVIEW BY JESS MELVIN
The Resistible Rise of Arturo UiA play by Bertolt BrechtDirected by Erin ThomasPACT Theatre, Erskineville, Sydney. October 7-30Tickets $24/$18, bookings (02) 9699 344Concession tickets available for Green Left Weekly readers.
PM John Howard now claims a mandate for a raft of reactionary measures that he didn't even mention during the federal election campaign.
Before polling it was all about security, trust and "rewards". Just four days after the election, treasurer
Doug Lorimer
The Los Angeles Times has reported that US officials have told it the Bush administration has decided to delay a major offensive to recapture rebel Iraqi cities until after the November 2 US presidential election.
A week earlier,
REVIEW BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East TimorBy Clinton FernandesScribe Publications, Melbourne 2004138 pages
Clinton Fernandes, a Melbourne-based writer on politics and international
I have a friend who, along with his family, actively opposes the Howard government's iniquitous policies — the ones that throw asylum seekers in concentration camps and turn Australians into US lap dogs, making us targets for acts of retaliation.
Jess Melvin, Sydney
The South-East Asian department at the University of Sydney will cease to exist in 2006 unless students and staff can stop its closure.
Indonesian language, Thai language and South-East Asian history and politics subjects are
Sarah Stephen
On October 14, the immigration department deported MK, an Iranian Christian, from the Baxter detention centre in South Australia. Australia is the only country that deports asylum seekers to Iran.
"Immigration minister [Amanda]
Justin Podur
The Venezuelan government, under President Hugo Chavez, has created "missions" to provide services to Venezuela's population. Perhaps the most well-known of the missions is Mission Robinson, which has brought adult literacy programs to
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