Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories by young writers aged 11-20 yearsEdited by Sonja Dechian, Heather Millar and Eva SallisWakefield Press, 2004$19.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Dark Dreams is a fascinating anthology of essays, interviews
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Alex Tighe
Too bad if you happen to be employed in a small business that decides to cut costs by making you redundant. Even worse luck if you have worked there for several years. The Coalition government has displayed its aggressive anti-worker
Ron Guy
A wall can take many forms. It can be the 2400 kilometres of earth — and estimated three million landmines — that separate the Western Saharan people from their homeland. Or it can be a wall of silence.
Recently, I joined a delegation
Dale McKinley
On June 3 in the Protea Magistrate's Court in Soweto, two Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) activists from the community of Phiri — Tshepo Mkwanazi and Thabo Madisane — were convicted of "intimidation" and given R10,000 fines each,
Paul Oboohov, Canberra
The ACT Labor government, with the support of the Liberal MLAs, rammed a bill through the ACT Legislative Assembly on May 25 to make the Gungahlin Drive extension immune from planning and environmental legislation. The
Alison Dellit
Colombian oil workers have returned to work after a victorious 37-day strike against the privatisation of the state-run oil company Ecopetrol.
Colombia's government has been progressively privatising Ecopetrol through a restructure
John Pilger
Piers Morgan, the editor of the Daily Mirror, Britain's most famous mass-circulation newspaper, was sacked on May 14 because he ran the only English-language popular paper to expose the "war on terror" as a fraud and the invasion of
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Cam Walker
World Refugee Day, marked on June 20, is a chance to acknowledge both the plight and the courage of refugees. It could also be a day for reflection on another looming crisis: the beginning of a new wave of refugees fleeing human-induced
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