BY SARAH STEPHEN
A Perth District Court judge on September 27 sentenced two Indonesian fisherpeople to jail for their role in transporting 438 asylum seekers to Australia in August last year. The people responsible for organising the journey and
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BY ALISON DELLIT
On September 19, federal ALP leader Simon Crean, accompanied by Labor's candidate for the Cunningham by-election, Sharon Bird, announced that the party would vote against the Coalition's proposed changes to Telstra's price controls
BY SOBHI ALBADAWI& NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Mustapha Barghouthi, president of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, gave a presentation on the situation in Palestine at the Trades and Labor Council on September 20. Barghouthi was in
On September 24, British Prime Minister Tony Blair presented his much-anticipated "dossier", Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, to the parliament. Supporters of a US attack on Iraq had promised that Blair would provide the definitive "evidence" that
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE —
Former Labor senator George Georges died in Canberra on September 23 after
a long illness. He was 82. Georges was from a rare breed: an ALP politician
who stood up for his principles at the cost of his
BY BEN COURTICE
On August 9, the US State Department designated the Communist Party
of the Philippines (CPP) and the New Peoples Army (NPA) as “foreign terrorist
organizations” and implored other governments to do the same.
On August
BY MICK BULL
MELBOURNE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
and the Federated Engine Drivers and Fireman's Association (FEDFA) have
reached an in-principle agreement with the Master Builders Association
(MBA) over
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — By September 30, 471 Socialist Alliance members had returned
letters to the Victorian electoral commission confiming their membership.
The commission must receive a further 29 positive responses by October
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BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
SYDNEY — Around
2000 people marched on September 26 to oppose the coming US-British war
on Iraq and to demand a stop to Israel's US-backed war against the Palestinian
people.
The rally was jointly organised by the
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — Chanting, "Education for people, not for profit", and "Whose streets? Our streets!", 300 university and high school students and university workers brushed aside police objections to spill onto the streets on September
BY STUART MUNCKTON
A Reuters news-wire report from Caracas on September 19 tells of a joke circulating among wealthy Venezuelans: George Bush wakes from a 10-year sleep to find that Saddam Hussein has embraced democracy. "What about Venezuelan
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
On September
25, two leaders of the Acehnese civil rights movement — Muhammad Nasir
Azis and Kautsar bin Muhammad Yus — who were abducted on September 22 by
the Indonesian military (TNI) in the northern Acehnese city of
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