BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
On August 15 an Indonesian court convicted Abilio Soares, the former Jakarta-appointed governor of East Timor, of failing to rein in subordinates in September 1999 as pro-Jakarta militias rampaged, killing at least 1000 East
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BY WILL KNIGHT
Dinny Tumbler, a sixty-five-year-old Aboriginal man, camps in a small room attached to the home of his daughter and son-in-law at the Bellary Aboriginal community, between Paraburdoo and Tom Price in north-west Western Australia.
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE 聴 As the picket line set up by Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers Union officials and their supporters reached its 12th day on August 26, an emergency AMWU national council was meeting. The workers, striking
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE 鈥� The Socialist Alliance lodged its application for registration as a political party with the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) on August 29, submitting the details of its 763 Victorian members.
Success in the
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON 鈥� The Blair government was told in January by the Americans that there was no justification for attacking Iraq in the "war on terrorism" and that their main aim was getting rid of Saddam Hussein, who stood in the way of the
BY ROBERT JOHNSON
PORTLAND, Oregon 聴 There is a significant amount of dissenting noise regarding President George Bush's mad rush to war against Iraq coming from portions of the US right-wing. Brent Scowcroft, George Bush senior's national
BY MICHELLE BREAR
SUVA, Fiji 聴 As the South Pacific region's major imperialist power, Australia is in a strong position to influence regional political and economic decisions. At the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), held here on August 19-20,
SYDNEY 鈥� The national and Victorian leaderships of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union are in dispute. The national leadership recently stood down the Victorian secretary Craig Johnston and, against the wishes of the Victorian branch,
Curtin University
JANE ARMANASCO & MARK HEWITT report that Curtin University Refugee Rights Action Network activists set up a mock detention centre and campaigning stall on August 26. More than 1000 leaflets were distributed to questioning students
BY PAUL MILLER
MELBOURNE
聴 The Melbourne West branch of the Socialist Alliance on August 27 selected
Justine Kamprad as its candidate for Footscray in the next Victorian election.
Kamprad is an activist in the Australian Manufacturing
BY ALISON DELLIT
"Barry ... said Sammy looked a little bit blue and he was gasping... [Barry] went to ... use the phone and it didn't work, so then he said 'I'll run [to the farm down the road] and I'll get an ambulance'... Later, Sammy made this
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE 鈥� To a packed Kurilpa Hall of 90 people, Craig Johnston, Victorian state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), gave a gripping account of union struggle Workers First-style.
Organised by the
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