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BY ADRIAN D'HAGE On August 29, I was tuned in to Sandy McCutcheon's Australia Talks Back, on the ABC's Radio National, when the subject of asylum seekers came up and a somewhat agitated lady with a very cultured voice rang in from Perth. "This
BY LIAM MITCHELL SYDNEY — The 15th week of the strike at Dayson's air-conditioning compressor reconditioning plant saw a dramatic shift in the company's attitude after having been forced into negotiations with the Australian Manufacturing
BY CHRIS CAIN The picture says it all. On a recent visit to the offices of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch, I quickly learnt the full history of a very nasty dispute. At the time, there was a picket outside the
Mullah Bush "We value the idea of being able to — people being able to worship freely an almighty God. That's what we value in America." — George "The Crusader" Bush, August 29. Invasions, economic blockades and wars don't count "I'm
BY KATHY NEWNAM& PETER ROBSON NEWCASTLE — In one of the largest refugee rights meetings to be held in Newcastle, nearly 200 people packed the Town Hall on August 31 to hear immigration minister Philip Ruddock's lies destroyed. Anne Coombs,
BY PATRICK BOND JOHANNESBURG — For 90 years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra. August 31 was breakout
Pakistani peasants shot dead On August 26, Pakistani police and military fired on a gathering of 2000 peasants from Okara village. The peasants had just been negotiating with the army landlords over the downgrading of tenancy rights. After
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BY JAMES BALOWSKI On August 31, a band of unidentified assailants ambushed a group of mine workers in Indonesia's eastern-most province of West Papua, leaving three dead and 11 injured. Indonesian officials immediately blamed the Free Papua
BY TAMARA PEARSON SYDNEY — Despite fancy audio technology, immigration minister Philip Ruddock could not be heard over angry chants when visiting the University of NSW on September 3 to address the Law Society on Australia's immigration
BY IGGY KIM SYDNEY — Activists from a wide range of organisations attended a meeting on August 30 to organise action against the World Trade Organisation's "informal" meeting of trade ministers, due to be held in Sydney on November 14-15. This
BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — Remembering September 11 merely as a gruesome spectacle is an insult to the victims of that epic crime. However, remembering is important in order to make sense of it, and especially of what happened next. Most of the