BY PAMELA CURR
Immigration law and family law have collided. In a landmark ruling on June 19, the Family Court found that it had jurisdiction over children held in immigration detention, and could make a ruling to release them if it was deemed
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BY EVA CHENG
Bilateral trade conflicts between the world's two biggest economic blocs — the US and the European Union — are escalating, threatening to undermine their collective ability to screw the Third World, especially within the framework
BY JAMES CRAFTI
MELBOURNE — On July 8, the Sydney University Senate met in secret to vote to support the federal government's "reforms" to higher education. When rumours circulated that the La Trobe University Council was to do the same, members
PalestineBy Joe SaccoJonathon Cape, 2003286 pages, $45 (pb)
REVIEW BY NICK FREDMAN
A work dealing with the politics of Palestine, in the form of a comic book, might seem an incongruent, even flippant, exercise. How can the immense human
BY NORM DIXON
On July 31, Israel's Knesset (parliament) overwhelmingly passed an apartheid-like marriage law. The law forbids Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from obtaining Israeli citizenship or permits to live with their spouses and
BY STUART MARTIN
MELBOURNE — After five months on strike, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) maintenance workers at Smorgon Steel in Laverton are still fighting to win the 36-hour work week and better pay and working conditions.
Despite the
BY STEVE KRETZMANN& JIM VALLETTE
In early April, during the initial assault on Baghdad, soldiers set up forward bases named Camp Shell and Camp Exxon, until Pentagon PR realised that that did not look very good and ordered them renamed. Those
[The following statement was unanimously adopted by the Socialist Alliance's national executive on July 25.]
The Socialist Alliance national executive joins its voice with those calling for unity in the anti-war movement. As the Bush administration
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Purgatory Down UnderBy Stephen Klinder and Jon WilliamsDirected by Alex BrounOld Fitzroy Hotel Theatre, SydneyUntil August 17
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
Is it possible to laugh about something as appalling as the government's treatment of asylum
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — In a stunning victory for mechanics and related employees at United Airlines, on July 14 the Aircraft Mechanics' Fraternal Association (AMFA) replaced the International Association of Machinists (IAM) as their union.
BY PETA JOHNSTON
On August 6, long-term immigration detainee Stephen Khan was released from detention at the Perth Immigration Detention Centre on the order of Federal Court Justice Malcolm Lee. Sitting in the Federal Court in Perth, Lee made the
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