Zoe Kenny The federal Coalition government is pushing ahead with a bill to make major changes to the 1976 Northern Territory Land Rights Act. The amendments severely weaken Indigenous people's control of their land in the NT and are the most
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Kerry Vernon, Sydney Rotem Mor, a young Israeli "refusenik" — a conscript who refuses to serve in the military to protest against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza — has just finished an Australia-wide speaking tour. His last
We join with people from across the world in condemning Israel's brutal attacks on Lebanon and Gaza as outright acts of state terrorism. Israel has carried out a reign of terror against the people of Lebanon and Palestine that has targeted civilians
Lebanon/Gaza attacks We are horrified at the slaughter of civilians and destruction of homes and infrastructure that has occurred and continues in Lebanon, Israel and Gaza. The Israeli action constitutes collective punishment of the Lebanese
Jay Fletcher, Wollongong At least 150 students participated in an open-air forum organised by Wollongong University's Students Against War collective entitled "No Peace Without Justice - what the media doesn't want you to know about the war on
Annolies Truman, Perth The conference of the WA branch of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) in Fremantle on July 26-28 strongly condemned the use of section 457 visas, used by employers to bring guest workers to Australia. It denounced the
Ema Corro, Melbourne In 2002, the French companies Connex and Alstom, international investors in Melbourne's Citypass Consortium, won a 30-year tender to operate a light-rail system between illegal Israeli settlements around Jerusalem. The contract
Steve Mather With punches being thrown and the odd chair flying through the air, it was clear there was a good old-fashioned union debate taking place on May 27. The different factions or currents within the National Union of Workers (UNT, the
Warren Smith, Sydney The Maritime Union of Australia (NSW) is campaigning for the foreshore redevelopment of Sussex Street wharves in East Darling Harbour to be renamed "The Hungry Mile" in recognition of the men and women who worked the wharves and
Doug Lorimer On August 4, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites marched through the streets of Baghdad chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" in the largest foreign show of support for Lebanon's Shiite-based Hezbollah resistance fighters
Kerry Smith On August 7, the Edmund Rice Centre (ERC) released information indicating that up to nine asylum seekers and several of their children were killed upon return to Afghanistan after they were detained on Nauru by the Australian government.
Tony Iltis, Melbourne Following several weeks of mass demonstrations against Israel's wars on Lebanon and Palestine, there have been calls in the corporate media for the federal government to make it illegal for anti-war protesters to carry
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