BY SUSAN PRICE
SYDNEY — Senate hearings had confirmed that the recent refugees' rights protest at Woomera, during which fences at the Woomera detention centre were pulled down, would be classified as a "terrorist act", under legislation currently
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US policies create terrorism
Another American Century? The United States and the World After
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Indigenous organisations and leaders in Queensland have cautiously greeted the state ALP government's plan to take control of alcohol-serving canteens away from elected indigenous community councils in Queensland's far
The Queen Mother was a racist snob who excelled in extravagant living. After all the grovelling, hypocritical tributes paid to her last week, here are some facts to remember.
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Global justice activists make plans for M1
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART Global justice activists in the Hobart M1 Alliance have
decided to organise a blockade of the Forestry Tasmania building on May
1, followed at 12 noon by a march to
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — On April 4 US President George Bush called on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian cities occupied by its forces during the previous week.
He excused Israel's violence, but lectured the Palestinians and the rest of
BY EDWIN WISE & ANTHONY DEFRAINE
"Palestinians are being attacked with rockets and [helicopter] gunships", cried Asem Judeh from the Australian Solidarity Committee for Palestine at an emergency speakout on April 10 at Melbourne's LaTrobe
Unions call for sanctions on Israel
On April 10 Tony Maher, mining and energy general president of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, and Paddy Crumlin, the national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia issued a joint call
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Targeting major corporations that profit from war and misery, Brisbane's M1 Alliance rallied outside the offices of the giant US corporation Boeing on April 12. Boeing is one of the world's biggest aircraft and weapons
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The April 2 Australian carried an opinion piece — "Refugee hard line is right" — written by Labor Party member and self-described "left-wing activist" Ivan Molloy. Molloy called for "reasoned criticism from a human rights
BY MIKE BYRNE
BRISBANE — More than 80 people met on April 7 to discuss immigration minister Philip Ruddock's proposal to build a 200-bed medium-security detention centre at Pinkenba, close to Brisbane airport. The meeting was called by federal
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