BY SARAH STEPHEN
Immigration minister Philip Ruddock takes great offence at the labeling of Australia's refugee policy as racist and discriminatory. In particular, Ruddock takes offence at criticism of the government's crackdown on people trying to
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BY EVA CHENG
Riding on the back of US President George Bush's "war on terrorism", the Hindu fundamentalist Indian regime led by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's military dictator General Pervez Musharraf are massing troops along
BY SARAH CLEARY
HOBART — Abortion services suspended in Tasmanian public hospitals in November 2001 have not yet resumed, despite a pre-Christmas emergency sitting of state parliament to resolve the crisis.
The services were withdrawn following
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's SARAH STEPHEN spoke to TAFADZWA CHOTO, national coordinator of Zimbabwe's International Socialist Organisation, about the issue of HIV/AIDS when she was in Australia in October.
Zimbabwe has the highest level of HIV infection
BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY — Human rights organisations and the Mexican left have long argued that more than 600 political activists were detained by government security forces from the late 1960s to the 1990s and never heard from again. Many
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The UN High Commission for Refugees on January 8 expressed the view that a significant proportion of asylum seekers being housed on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru will be found to be refugees, and that Australia has a special
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — On December 17 the Hobart City Council denied a permit for the sale of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in Elizabeth Street Mall. It was the third time the council had denied such a permit in little over three weeks.
The council
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It is certainly unorthodox to begin a cd with a song about a firefighter being crushed and burned to death by the collapsing World Trade
BY MONICA MOOREHEADAND LARRY HOLMES
US Federal District Judge William Yohn, in a 272-page ruling issued on December 18, threw out the death sentence imposed on former Black Panther and radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal at his 1982 trial. However,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
"Women should be home taking care of their husbands and children, chained to the stove, not working in my stores." This sentiment may have been commonly expressed in the 1950s, but the statement is recent, and comes from the
BY PAUL BENEDEK
They sit just below Osama bin Laden on the "evil" ladder. They are subhuman, and a threat to "our" borders. They are the heinous creatures simply referred to as "people smugglers".
With increasing criticism of the federal
BY JIM GREEN
The NSW bushfires came with a predictable media script: "Heroes", most of them volunteers from the Rural Fire Service, battling fires started by "villain" arsonists. Important issues - such as inadequate resources for fire prevention
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