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Transport organised to Canberra demonstration

BY SIMON BUTLER SYDNEY — The February 12 refugee rights convergence on Canberra has been given a boost by decisions taken in Sydney, Wollongong and Melbourne to organise buses for activists to the protest. The socialist youth group Resistance

Argentina running out of medical supplies

A report in the January 26 British Medical Journal reveals that Argentina is running out of medical supplies and faces rising drug prices as the country sinks deeper into economic crisis. The report quotes Juan Carr, who heads Red Solidaria

A web of solidarity with refugees

BY SARAH STEPHEN There is a huge range of refugee solidarity web sites popping up every day, reflecting the broadening of support and sympathy for the plight of people trying to find a safe haven in Australia. Children out of Detention

A sense of working-class Ireland

REVIEW BY TRISH CORCORAN The Boys From BallymoreBy Anthony BrownPenguin Books Australia, 2001355 pages, $23 Liam O'Brien returns to Ballymore after living in Australia, he remembers. Ballymore is a small town in Tipperary, Ireland. Liam finds the