BY PAUL MILLER
MELBOURNE — On June 1, 100 Footscray residents protested outside the Footscray swimming pool against its closure. The rally was organised by the Footscray Community Association.
The Maribyrnong City Council has recently decided
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BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — Figures from the Manufacturers Association of Israel confirm that the country's economy is in its deepest recession since 1953. Since the fourth quarter of 2000, 22,000 industrial workers have been laid off, industrial
Recently, I had some direct experience of how the capitalist system exploits young workers. I was employed at the Dimmey's discount department store that just opened in Hobart's Elizabeth Mall. Like the other 14 workers, I was told that I was a
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — Speaking to an overflow audience of 250 people at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on June 2, writer, film-maker and left activist Tariq Ali analysed the key issues in world politics after September 11.
The meeting,
Behind the Tears ... Triumphant Voices: East Timor, a Photographic JourneyPhotographs by Ross Bird, David Dare Parker and Stephen DupontCurated by Emmanuel SantosPost Master Gallery, Australia Post House, corner Exhibition and La Trobe streets,
BY PETER BOYLE
There is a painful image from East Timor that remains engraved in
my mind. It is the footage of Timorese throwing their children over the
razor wire fence of the UN compound, then scrambling up the side of a hill
dragging
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — "Today we are welcoming home the remains of people who should never have been taken away", announced Tasmanian Aboriginal community leader Michael Mansell at the Hobart international airport on June 14.
He was
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Western media reporting on the Middle East over recent weeks has
focussed on the deaths caused by a handful of suicide bombings in Israel.
Missing from most of the coverage is the scale of the violence being unleashed
on
Hundreds of angry
demonstrators rallied on June 8 outside the British Prime Minster Tony
Blair's residence at 10 Downing Street, London, to protest against British
arms sales to India and Pakistan and oppose war between the two countries.
An interim ruling by New Zealand's High Court has found that the Labour-Alliance coalition government's policy of routinely detaining asylum seekers who arrive without authorisation is in violation of the United Nations refugee convention.
The following statement is being circulated by activists in the refugees' rights movement. It was drafted to encourage discussion about alternatives to detention. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly believes it deserves wide circulation and consideration. We encourage
BY ALISON DELLIT
Departing from the usual carefully stage-managed "shows of unity", designed to sing the praises of federal and state Labor leaders, the ALP's three largest state conferences — NSW, Queensland and Victoria — have embarrassed
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