BY SARAH STEPHEN
For two years, Kevin John Enniss was a paid informant of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). He was also at the heart of the people-smuggling business in Indonesia.
Enniss went far beyond the normal role of an informant. At the
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BY IGGY KIM & NICK EVERETT
An "informal" meeting of 25 trade ministers will be hosted by the World Trade Organisation in Sydney on November 14-15.
The meeting will be a caucus, involving the advanced capitalist countries plus a handful of the
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BY PHIL CHILTON
PERTH On September 9, about 60 people staged a vigil outside the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs in Perth. The vigil was for Steven Khan.
Khan is one of the asylum seekers locked in
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Labor sells out on war
The me-too approach that Prime Minister John Howard and his cabinet
have taken to the US war drive against Iraq has given the ALP some leeway
to appear to be an opposition on this issue. It isn't.
Both the
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY Bands and performers from a range of music styles have joined forces with refugee-rights activists to organise a Rock for Refugees benefit concert next month.
The all-ages, seven-hour concert on October 27 will
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA Indonesian police used tear gas and water cannons to attempt
to subdue a large demonstration outside the parliament of the Jakarta special
province on September 11.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered to
BY EMMA CLANCY
PERTH "We want to see more events such as the 200-strong student general meeting held on September 3, which debated issues such as refugees, the looming war on Iraq and Palestine", Fred Fuentes told Green Left Weekly. Fuentes,
BY KATHY FAIRFAX
SYDNEY Rex Rumakiek, a long-standing OPM (Organisasi Papua Merdeka) representative in Australia, denied that the West Papua independence group was involved in the August 31 attack on the giant US-owned Freeport gold and
BY LYNDA HANSEN
BRISBANE Thirty people attended a public meeting on September 12
to mark the fourth year since five Cubans were arrested in Miami and convicted
in June 2001 for espionage. They had been involved in monitoring right-wing
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