BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — Members of the National Union of Workers at the Qenos refinery in Altona have reached the 100th day of a management lockout. The workers are holding out against management's attempt to impose large reductions in an
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BY KAMALA EMANUEL
For a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to work, "first of all, [white people] have got to recognise, at the very beginning of the treaty, that this land belonged to Aboriginal people, and they stole it",
BY ANA KAILIS
PERTH — Supporters of refugee rights here have formed a new Refugee Rights Action Network to demand the immediate release from detention of all asylum seekers and a complete overhaul of Australia's border policy.
The January 16
BY ISRAEL SHAMIR
Among the colourful revellers of Allenby street, in crowded restaurants of merry-making Tel Aviv nights, a vision came to me, a vision of an angel in battle-dress, chalking up on a wall three words: Mene, Tekel, ufarsin. My
Improving on perfection
"I believe the system is as safe as it could possibly be, but that doesn't mean that we can't make it safer." — NSW transport minister Carl Scully on the state's public transport system.
Executioner
"I am mindful of
“It would not hurt you to go see someone in prison ... doing so might
put you in touch with your own humanity.”
Moments after hearing a local radio personality reveal unbridled contempt
for prisoners, I wrote a letter, including the words
 NORTHERN IRELAND: South Armagh — the
militarised zone
BY STUART ROSS
“How many days of normality have you gained because the checkpoints
on the border aren't there anymore, because honest people can go to a pub
or a school or a
BY ALLEN MYERS
PHNOM PENH — With 92 votes in favour and none opposing, the National Assembly on January 2 approved a bill to establish a special court to try former leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of up to
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The Taj Mahal, that tomb of white marble,travels the world on lips of tourists,in books, film, on-line, sent postcards.No other human edifice so exquisitely lovelyfixed the image in all our headsexpressed the royal grief of one man.She died so young
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BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
The December 2000 National Union of Students (NUS) conference held at Ballarat endorsed a motion to support the upcoming May 1 blockades of stock exchanges being built by M1 alliances around the country. The conference also voted
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