BY PERRY BROWN & KATHY NEWNAM
FORSTER "This meeting is very encouraging", began Pat Thompson, in her address to the inaugural meeting of the Great Lakes Rural Australians for Refugees group, held in Forster on June 29. Thompson, one of the
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BY CHRIS ATKINSON
DARWIN NT University's international students are the latest victims of the government and corporate media's racist scaremongering campaign. The pass grade on an English language subject compulsory for international students
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON In May, the Glasgow University Media Group, distinguished
for its pioneering media analysis, published a study on the reporting of
the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. It ought to be required reading in newsrooms
BY ROGER RONNIE
More than 100,000 municipal workers across South Africa members of the militant South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) began a national strike on July 2. Tens of thousands have marched in demonstrations in major
BY CHRIS LATHAM
On June 22, delegates at the Western Australian state conference of the Labor Party passed a motion that opposed the construction of a marina near Coral Bay.
The motion recognised the development's "potential to impact severely on
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
By Helen Caldicott
Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2002
320 pages, $30 (pb)
Although the risk of India and Pakistan launching a nuclear war
BY FRANCES SHEEHAN
SYDNEY Fed up with being asked to perform miracles on the smell of an oily rag, staff at the Department of Community Services (DOCS) have taken industrial action to secure the extra staff and resources needed to protect
BY PIP HINMAN
August 26 marks one year since the Coalition government refused to
allow the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa to deliver those asylum seekers
it had rescued to Christmas Island it marks one year of the Pacific
Solution.
Although Stephen Spielberg emerged side-by-side with George Lucas as a purveyor of juvenile film fantasies during the Reagan era, he has evolved into one of the more important social commentators in Hollywood.
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE As attacks on the militant leadership of the Victorian
branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union are stepped up, the
Skilled Six Campaign has begun meeting. The campaign group was set up by
Melbourne
and ain't i a woman?: More to history than white men
There is much more to Australian history than white men. Women fought for (and in many cases won) equality, peace and rights for Indigenous Australians, the peoples of the Third World and
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The information available from the hunger strikers in Woomera detention centre, whose protest passed the two-week mark on July 7, is heart-rending. The July 5 Canberra Times spoke by telephone to Ramzi, who said "We are very weak
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