Thirty detainees at the Maribyrnong detention centre issued a statement on November 23 drawing attention to their treatment at the hands of security company Australasian Correctional Management and the immigration department, claiming that, in recent
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BY ARUN PRADHAN
It might have begun as a story in the mind of JK Rowling, but today Harry Potter is an industry that turns over more than many countries' gross domestic product and has multinational corporations falling over themselves for a cut of
BY ANDREW HALL
The future direction of the Community and Public Sector Union is to be decided December 3-7 as branches vote on whether to accept restructuring plans proposed by the CPSU leadership.
The proposed changes — the concentration of
BY NICOLE COLSON
CHICAGO — "We watch the X-Files on television, but we never thought it would happen here." That's what Pakistani native Asif Kazi told reporters after FBI agents came crashing through the front door of his Chester, Pennsylvania,
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — More than 1500 people gathered in Newtown for the Reclaim the Streets festival and march on December 1, protesting against the dominance of cars on city streets and the lack of control people have over their environment.
Monopolies don't need to innovate
The October launch of Windows XP, Microsoft's new operating system, had been anticipated as the saviour of the personal computer industry. (An operating system is a piece of software that turns a computer from a
Would you like enriched uranium with that?
"Will the product(s) be used in connection with weapons of mass destruction, i.e., nuclear applications, missile technology, or chemical or biological weapons purposes? O Yes O No." — Final of four
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
Tian Chua was detained by Malaysian authorities on April 10 under the Internal Security Act which has been in force in that country since 1960. Under the ISA, the Mahathir government is empowered to jail any person without trial
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — At meetings held by the six Socialist Alliance branches in Sydney following the November 10 federal election, alliance members began to assess the election campaign results and discuss the activities of the alliance in
@caption =PENRITH - As part of an ongoing campaign to challenge the ALP state government's proposal to build a new women's prison at South Windsor, the No New Women's Prison Campaign held a week long vigil near the prison construction site from
BY SEAN HEALY
In B-grade splatter films, even after the evil villain has been sliced, diced and dunked in lava, you just know he'll be back for the sequel. It's the same with corporate plots to take over the world — because the Multilateral
HOBART — The socialist youth group Resistance organised a successful "Rock Against War" on December 1, with the support of local "original bands" opposed to the US-led "war on terrorism". Pictured is Lab A.
Photo by Alex Bainbridge.From Green
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