WOLLONGONG — A refugee solidarity quilt was started earlier this year by the Illawarra Refugee Action Collective. Detained refugees and members of the community continue to contribute 30-centimetre square patches to be added to the quilt, which is
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BY NORM DIXON
JOHANNESBURG — The South African government has repeatedly resorted to police repression to stifle protests by critics of the African National Congress' anti-poor, anti-worker, pro-corporate policies during the August 26-September 3
and aint i a woman: Repeal, don't reform, abortion laws
The August 21 decision by the ACT Legislative Assembly to remove abortion from the Crimes Act has re-drawn attention to the difficulties that Australian women face in accessing abortion.
Indian court upholds Bhopal charges
On August 28, an Indian court rejected the United States government's push to reduce culpable homicide charges against former Union Carbide chairperson, Warren Anderson. In 1984, a gas leak at the US company's
BY ROBERT FISK
KABUL — In Afghanistan, it is possible to go from hell to hell. The first circle of hell is the "waiting area", the faeces-encrusted dustbowl in which 60,000 Afghans rot along their frontier with Pakistan at Chaman — a
BY JODY BETZEIN
MELBOURNE
— Three thousand people turned out on August 30 for a rally outside the
State Library organised by the Melbourne Refugee Action Collective (RAC)
to demand freedom for refugees.
The very youthful crowd marched
BY NICOLE HILDER
WOLLONGONG — On August 22 it was announced that Sandon Point was
named in the Australian Council of National Trusts' Endangered Places List
2002. ACNT chairperson Simon Molesworth said “the key threats to these
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Dinner raises $1500
PERTH — Around 150 people gathered at the State School Teachers Union hall to attend the a dinner to raise funds for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly on August 24. Greetings were heard from SSTU organiser Michelle White, Socialist Alliance
BY JIM GREEN
The Australian government is attracting international condemnation for playing a spoiling role at the United Nations-organised World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
The Australian delegation of 50 people is led by
BY CLAUDIA QUINNELL
Once again, higher education has come under attack, this time through federal education minister Brendan Nelson's "Higher Education at the Crossroads" review. The review claims to take stock of how far the higher education
BY EVA CHENG
Until July 31, the latest official statistics reported that the United States last year suffered only one quarter of negative GDP growth. But on that day, revised figures — based on more comprehensive data — revealed that the
BY PIP HINMAN
In the early
hours of August 26, activists from the We Are All Boat People group decorated
statues around the city in barbed wire, Tampa sashes and black armbands.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria at the Queen Victoria Building
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