BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK & JO ELLIS
DARWIN — The AIDS Council's annual candlelight vigil, held on May 20, provided solidarity for those living with HIV and encouraged people to join the fight against discrimination and oppression.
Gary Meyerhoff,
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Ken Fry was the Labor member for Fraser, one of Canberra's
two lower house seats, from 1974-1984 and is best known as one of the leading
parliamentary supporters of independence for East Timor, having visited
the country shortly before its
BY VIV MILEY
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants", George 'Dubya' Bush, January 14, 2001.
Bush and his administration definitely know
Mahmood lives in Perth. He was released from Port Hedland detention centre six weeks ago, on a temporary protection visa. Mahmood is Kurdish and lived in Iran.
Mahmood was involved in the Iranian journalists' union and was a student leader in
Mea culpa?
"While the GST is basically here to stay, it is now clear its benefits were grossly exaggerated by economists who climbed on the 'tax reform' bandwagon." — editorial in the May 26-27 Australian Financial Review, one of the chief media
Anyone who has attended a recent rally in Sydney knows that there is more to the police than cheesy grins and helping the elderly. Despite already knowing this, I was completely unprepared for my experience of police at the May 17 blockade of the
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — “This is an occasion we should all be rejoicing about”,
was how veteran socialist Norm Taylor began his address to the launch of
the Socialist Alliance here on May 21.
The alliance was urgently needed, Taylor
Just weeks after another uprising at the Port Hedland refugee detention centre, federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock introduced the immigration detainees bill into federal parliament, which proposes to allow guards to conduct strip searches of
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — If opponents of President Abdurrahman Wahid have their way, when it meets on May 30 the Indonesian parliament will call a special session of the People's Consultative Assembly, the only body which has the power to impeach
@box text intr = The June 3 demonstrations to free the refugees will be the first nationally co-ordinated actions in support of refugees in Australia's history. It is a tragedy that they are necessary.
Australia offers no welcome haven to those
Curtin Immigration Detention Centre
Location: RAAF base outside Derby, in the far north of Western Australia.
Capacity: 1000 people (1200 people being held).
Description: Tents and pre-fabricated huts used as accomodation, surrounded by
Lemonade & Buns/Tog E Go Bog EKilaGreen Linnet records
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Kila play Irish music the likes of which you've never heard. Forget your notions about tiddly diddly dee and them boring auld laments and dirges. This lot of young
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