BY NORM DIXON
On February 25, the presidential candidate for Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, was formally charged with "high treason", a crime that can carry a death sentence.
Tsvangirai was allowed to
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
On February 28 the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees began a joint international campaign against the lack of rights for asylum seekers in Turkey.
Currently,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Australia-Indonesia sponsored Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime held in Bali, February 27-28, failed to provide any real answers to the problems it was ostensibly
BY AARON BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Police arrested four student activists on February 28 during the University of Sydney's orientation week. The four arrested had joined around a dozen others in an anti-Liberal sing-along next to the Liberal student club
BY JIM McILROY & NICK EVERETT
Three hundred people greeted the arrival of the refugee "Freedom Bus" in Brisbane on February 17, while 100 people packed into Sydney Trades Hall on February 25 to hear participants on the Freedom Bus describe their
BY ANDREW FERGUSON
SYDNEY — Federal workplace relations minister Tony Abbott has established a royal commission into the building industry. The intention of the federal government is to destroy the Construction, Mining, Forestry and Energy
RefugeesÂ’ rights meeting
PERTH — On February 27, more than 30 students and staff attended the first
meeting at Curtin University called to support the rights of asylum seekers
and refugees. The forum was organised by Resistance and the
Moving Mountains: Communities confront mining and globalisation
Edited by Geoff Evans, James Goodman and Nina Lansbury
The Mineral Policy Institute and Contemporary Otford Series
Sydney, 2001
301 pages $34
REVIEW BY SEAN HEALY
In 1972, US President Richard Nixon suggested that Washington drop nuclear bombs on North Vietnam, just-released tapes of conversations between Nixon and then US secretary of state Henry Kissinger have revealed.
Nixon's suggestion was found in 500
BY BRENDAN SEXTON
[The following is a slightly abridged version of a speech given at an anti-war forum at Columbia University in New York by Brendan Sexton III, one of the actors in the movie Black Hawk Down.]
When I first read the script to
Museworthy: The Veil
Between 3 and 4 ameven singularly we wage warand die from its effectsCorpses litter the nightwith beautywith loveSee the distance purple uswith its flowersits brokennessHow slowly should we leavethe decaying house?When is
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — The conditions in which prisoners are being held, brutally and illegally, in an American concentration camp on Cuba go to the heart of the "war on terrorism", and mark the Blair government for its betrayal of the basic
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