SYDNEY — Three-thousand people rallied for World Refugee Day in Hyde Park on June 20. They called for the abolition of temporary protection visas and an to end mandatory detention, including the closure of off-shore refugee camps. Among the many
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Alex Miller
In the June 10 election for the European Parliament, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) polled 61,356 votes, which represented 5.2% of all votes cast in Scotland.
Because of the expansion of the EU, Scotland elected seven members of
Sue Bolton
Newcastle members of the Community and Public Sector Union picketed the national office of the union in Sydney on June 9 to protest against a May 5 CPSU national management committee (NMC) decision to close down the union's Newcastle
REVIEW BY FRANK NICKLASON
The One Tree ProjectDirected by Helen Cameron
Tasmanian filmmaker Helen Cameron's documentary The One Tree Project is a fine work that deserves to become a cult film. Its power is that it is not a polemical piece.
The
Sarah Stephen
"I'm ready to come to the mainstream", new Labor Party recruit Peter Garrett told the ABC's 7.30 Report on June 10. Garrett's ascendancy will mark the fastest track to a safe federal seat in ALP history.
On June 12, Garrett became a
Paul Oboohov, Canberra
Sixty members and supporters of Save the Ridge blockaded tree-clearing machinery to prevent it leaving a fenced compound on the Bruce/O'Connor Ridge on June 18. They aimed to stop tree-clearing for the Gungahlin Drive
Doug Lorimer
On June 16, Reuters reported that rebel Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader Sayed Moqtada al Sadr had issued a statement calling on his Mahdi Army militia fighters in Najaf to abide by the terms of a frequently broken June 4 ceasefire agreement
Tim Stewart
With one foot firmly on the accelerator and a gearstick stuck in reverse, Prime Minister John Howard released an energy white paper on June 15 the central plank of which is a tax cut on greenhouse-gas generating fossil fuels while
Kali Mercier
"The government has cut off everything that enables us to survive, but we won't move because we were born here."
Two years after Botswana's government evicted hundreds of Gana and Gwi "Bushmen" from their ancestral land, the
Give East Timor its due,In the Timor Sea blue.Well, we all knowWhat's a fair go — We must cut it in two.
What's unfair makes us boil,So for fairness we'll toil. Oz is greedy Yes, indeedyHands off East Timor's oil!
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War on Terror
"I was standing there depicting the iconic picture of the tortured Iraqi prisoner." — Comment by Joseph Previtera, a 21-year-old Boston student, after he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, making a false bomb threat,
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Islamic Association opposes 'anti-terror' laws
SYDNEY — Two-hundred people, mostly from the Muslim community, attended a meeting on June 12 condemning the "anti-terror" laws and
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