Heroes of the planet?
BY SEAN HEALY
The scene could be the boardroom of any major corporation: long teak table, leather seats, grey suits, million-dollar views - and an air of suppressed panic. "Gentlemen, we have a problem. Our market research
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BY KAREN FLETCHER
ALICE SPRINGS — On August 2, the third day of the National Conference of Community Legal Centres, delegates learned that Prime Minister John Howard had announced he would amend the Sex Discrimination Act to make it legal to deny
Villawood under siege
July 24: Hunger strike by 100 asylum seekers begins at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. A roll call occurs five times a day. Twenty Refugee Action Collective activists, outside the camp showing their solidarity, are
On July 27, peaceful student protesters in the central Java city of Yogyakarta were attacked by baton-wielding thugs. At least 21 people were badly hurt. The students were commemorating the military-backed attack on Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian
Rules of racism
The Australian Arabic Council (AAC) wishes to bring to your attention the film Rules of Engagement, directed by William Friedkin and produced by Paramount Pictures, which will be distributed in Australia from August 17 by Village
Ruddock's hasty retreat
BY FRED FUENTES & GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — Immigration minister Philip Ruddock received an angry welcome from migrants and refugee rights supporters here on August 4, when he attended a "community consultation" at the
BY PAUL BENEDEK
"Riot police and detention centre security broke down the doors, gassed the hunger strikers, put them in steel handcuffs and threw them like animals into waiting trucks to be taken away." Is this a scene from Nazi Germany in the
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — More than 200 people attended the Global Action Conference, jointly sponsored by Friends of the Earth and Green Left Weekly, held at Melbourne University on July 29. The conference comprised three plenary sessions and 11
Lift the sanctions on Iraq!
BY LEIGH HUGHES
When asked in 1996 about the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children from United States-enforced sanctions against the country, US secretary of state Madeleine Albright declared "the price is worth it".
Indy Media Centres launched in Melbourne, Sydney
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — Independent Media Centres are now up and running in Melbourne and Sydney, where they'll provide a protesters' eye view of protest actions at the World Economic Forum's
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
The Coalition government is preparing to extend social security "mutual obligation" requirements even further, this time to disability pensioners and to those sole parents and non-working partners of the unemployed who receive
BY SIMON BUTLER
Perhaps most people would like to believe that state-sanctioned abuses of human rights occur only in Third World dictatorships. The reality, shamefully, is far different. The human rights of refugees in Australia are consciously and
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