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Museworthy: Smile (Affirmative Action)

Museworthy: Smile (Affirmative Action) I was a tooth on an adAnything brightAnd white white white For the audition they saidShow us what you can doAnd I sat rooted to the spotLooking as much like a toothAs I could There was a black woman

Fewer refugees to be allowed to stay

BY SARAH STEPHEN Immigration minister Philip Ruddock announced on May 7 that Australia's immigration intake for 2002-03 would rise for the fifth consecutive year. The federal government will allow between 100,000 and 110,000 new migrants into the

More government refugee lies exposed

BY KERRYN WILLIAMS CANBERRA — "Protection overboard" was the theme of a May 9 Refugee Action Committee forum, attended by 140 people. Former diplomat Tony Kevin, once the Australian ambassador to Cambodia, outlined evidence submitted to the

Refugees' rights protests planned

BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI Plans for large protests on June 22-23 to "welcome refugees and end mandatory detention" are well underway in cities across Australia. Rallies and marches are already being planned for the weekend, which falls within World

Write on: letters to the editor

Disaster Day On October 19, 2001, an asylum-seeking vessel sank and 353 refugees drowned while on the way from Indonesia to Christmas Island. If we are to accept the possible explanation by former Australian diplomat Tony Kevin, writing in the