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
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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
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
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
The British radical band CHUMBAWAMBA has written a scathing song — "Her Majesty" — to "celebrate" Betty Windsor's Golden Jubilee on the British throne. London was subjected to four days of stage-managed "festivities" beginning June 1, culminating
BY SARAH PEART
GLASGOW — In the same week that the Scottish Parliament celebrated its first 1000 days of existence on March 26, its members voted themselves a 13.5% wage increase, placing MSPs in the top 5% of income earners in Scotland. The sole
These are the photos of Jenin:There are housesin ruinsready-made mausoleumsfor the bodies within.There are facesof familiesfamilies in ruinsa son half in a pita body in a pool, human reda daughter unrecognisedthe open-mouthed faces of newly widowed
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Protesters picketed the initial stage of construction of the food irradiation plant at Narangba on June 13, forcing four trucks to turn back. The protesters have vowed to continue to picket the site, north of the city,
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Public sector nurses are maintaining a work-to-rule campaign to win safer staffing levels in hospitals. Nurses are refusing to do unreasonable overtime and are making sure that meal breaks are claimed. They are also
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