Nauru despair documented
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In early June, BBC reporter Sarah Macdonald and Australian refugee
supporter Kate Durham secretly filmed the conditions under which of asylum
seekers are being held on Nauru. The footage will be
498
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY The last person you would expect to launch a book on East
Timor would be Gough Whitlam, who was, in 1975, the Australian prime minister
who allowed Indonesia's occupation of that country. So I was surprised
to find
Unwarranted Praise
Greens Senator Bob Brown, in a June 14 press release, congratulated
federal Labor leader Simon Crean for having taken a large step in moving
Labor from the 'me-tooism' on asylum seekers it proffered during the [2001
Spanners in Beattie's dirty works
BY ANDREW PHILLIPS
BRISBANE Workers at QBuild, the state government agency responsible
for building all Queensland government buildings, schools and offices,
are fighting for justice after being
Definitely not bubblegum pop
BY NICOLE HOYE
BRISBANE With the empty lyrics of bubblegum pop music artists like
Britney Spears and NSync hogging the mainstream music charts and airwaves,
selling millions of albums worldwide,
BELGIUM: War criminal escapes prosecution
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The Brussels Court of Appeals ruled on June 26 that a case against
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for war crimes cannot be tried under
Belgian law. The case was brought by
News Briefs
'Youth for Refugees' hunger strike
CANBERRA Pro-refugee high school and campus students and young workers
took part in a 24-hour solidarity hunger strike on June 28. The hunger
strike, organised by Resistance, was in
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The European Union faces an ironic contradiction in coming decades. As birth rates continue to decline, many countries face negative population growth. The EU needs more immigration. Yet the European Council's June 21-22 meeting in
SCOTLAND
Socialists ready to shock the establishment
BY FRANCIS CURRAN
With less than one year until the Scottish Parliament elections,
due in May 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) faces its biggest challenge
yet.
CMG workers return to work
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON Meatworkers at the Packer-family-owned Consolidated Meat
Group's Lakes Creek abbatoir returned to work on June 20 after spending
two weeks on strike and another week locked
Afghan refugee pleads: Don't send us back!
NOORIA WAZIFADOST is a 16-year-old Afghan refugee now living in Sydney.
She arrived in Darwin with her family in 2000, and spent 40 days in the
Curtin detention centre before being released on
BY PIP HINMAN& SARAH STEPHEN
On June 23, the same day that 13,000 people took to the streets across Australia to oppose the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, detainees at the Woomera detention centre began a hunger strike. By June 24, 180-190
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