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BY ERIN KILLION CANBERRA — Labor Senator Kate Lundy has spoken out against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, saying that the policy "in its current form is not an acceptable way to process asylum seekers" and that "children should never
REVIEW BY LISA MACDONALD In the prologue to his new book, Tariq Ali writes: "Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11
The dullest of records were old Factory Reports bound, called “Blue Books”. List of figures, translations of workers' lives tossed about in debate and later boredom. Members of Parliament used these for target practice (the force of
BY WILL WILLIAMS WOLLONGONG — "Seventy-nine-year-old great-grandfather, tribal initiate, retired coal-miner, unabashed socialist and enduring activist", was how the May 7 Illawarra Mercury described Fred Moore after the Wollongong Trade Union
Museworthy: Suffering, Related to Ownership' Privilege — someone else's suffering. What I should have refused before I needed to give it away. BY MTC CRONIN MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry
CFMEU Gary McCarthy's tirade against the CFMEU NSW construction division [Write On, GLW #486] cannot go unanswered. The CFMEU does not claim to have led the anti-apartheid movement or the green bans of the 1970s. The Building Workers
By Edward Rutkinn

MELBOURNE — After 27 years of working for their country's freedom, the East Timorese community in Melbourne and their Australian supporters celebrated their newly-won independence on May 20.

Collingwood Town Hall was packed with some 2000 people, who watched a replay of the independence celebrations in Dili on a giant video screen and listened to musical performances, speeches and an official ceremony.