Sarah Stephen
In the eight months leading up to the end of March, the Refugee Review Tribunal heard appeals from 132 Afghan refugees whose claims for permanent visas had been rejected by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and
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Rohan Pearce
In 麻豆传媒 Weekly #582, Toma Hamid and Jalal Mohammad, members of the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI) residing in Australia and of the Socialist Alliance, took issue with the analysis of the Iraqi armed resistance movement
Doug Lorimer
As US and British occupation troops fought fierce street battles with rebel Shiite cleric Sayed Moqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army militia in four cities, Iraqi resistance fighters assassinated Izz al Din Salim, the president of the
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Murris march against ATSIC abolition
BRISBANE 鈥� Around 200 Murris and supporters rallied in the Roma Street Forum and marched to the offices of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission on May 20. The protest
Pip Hinman, Sydney
A "Statement for Peace" which calls for Australian troops to leave Iraq and the occupation to end, has already gained some well-known signatories and financial support, especially among union ranks. The statement was produced by
The US Socialist Worker's Gina Sartori, Conor Morey-Barrett and Elizabeth Schulte report on the victory for gay marriage in Massachusetts.
Thousands of people gathered at city halls across Massachusetts on May 17 as the state took its place in the
Julie Sprigg, Perth
The Port Hedland Immigration Reception and Processing Centre is set to be mothballed by the end of June. All 52 detainees will be moved to South Australia's Baxter detention centre.
Thirty-three detainees were moved in two
Sarah Stephen
A new report by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) details the horrifying conditions that refugees and their children are subjected to in Australia's detention centres 鈥� violence and despair, self-mutilation
Speaking on BBC Radio on May 20, foreign minister Alexander Downer attacked a statement by Oxfam, which pointed out that the 40% of East Timorese living in abject poverty have no hope of improving their lives while their oil and gas resources are
Leonel Vivas
Since President Hugo Chavez won five years ago a national election with an overwhelming majority, a revolution is developing in my country 鈥� a very original revolution is being made by peaceful and democratic means, without violence,
SYDNEY 鈥� On May 20, "Public Education Day", around 60 teachers and supporters of public education rallied outside federal education minister Brendan Nelson's office in Lindfield. The rally, organised by the Middle Harbour Teachers Association of
Pip Hinman
One of the most important aspects of the leaking of pictures of tortured Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison is that they are shifting mass attitudes in the West to the war in a particularly potent way.
The graphic pictures showing
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