and ain't i a woman: George Pell: a greater scandal than abortion
The revelation on August 21 that Sydney Catholic Archbishop George Pell had been accused of sexually abusing a boy shocked Prime Minister John Howard, who immediately declared
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Murdoch family's Australian newspaper and the Fairfax's Melbourne Age have spent a number of weeks helping the government in its campaign to destroy the credibility of the Baktiyaris, a Hazara family who are seeking asylum in
BY LUISA ARA & MARCUS FELSMAN
SYDNEY In a clear indication that students are beginning to organise against further privatisation of higher education, 500 students marched through Sydney's streets in protest against the higher education review
BY JEFF HALPER
BEER SHEVA For the past six years, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been working on the issue of house demolitions. Every time we think: "OK, we've exhausted the subject, let's go on to other, perhaps
Students protest against Nelson
PERTH Around 100 students rallied outside a meeting to discuss federal minister for education Brendan Nelson's proposed changes to higher education. The meeting on August 20 was billed as a "public
BY ALISON DELLIT
SYDNEY In another example of rampant racism in Sydney's west, female students at Noor Al Houda Islamic College have had a booking cancelled by the Auburn Swim Centre, after a racist campaign by local talk-back radio hosts to
BY LEE SUSTAR
US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill caused a stir and a financial panic when he declared that any money loaned to Brazil by the International Monetary Fund would end up in "Swiss bank accounts". He should have looked a
JOHANNESBURG On August 17, about 100 members of the Soldiers Forum
(SF), an affiliate of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), were arrested
and thrown into jail, where they still remain, for no other reason than
the fact that they wanted to
BY KATIE NEVILLE
& ADAM BOTTOMLEY
MELBOURNE Sydney Afghan temporary protection visa holder Riz Wakil
spoke to an audience of 120 people at an August 14 campus meeting organised
by the La Trobe University Refugee Action Collective.
BY SUE BOLTON
"We're not going to have a situation where someone can be attacked because of internal [union] political differences. The printing division [of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Victorian branch] will not stand for it",
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
The August 8 High Court decision that the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) had denied two applicants "natural justice" when its members lied about having studied all the material the applicants had submitted with their initial
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