BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — In the largest demonstration for refugees' rights held
here so far, 4000 people rallied on February 2 in City Square to demand
that immigration detention centres be closed and that the refugees be freed.
The
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BY RICK MOLON & CHRIS ATKINSON
DARWIN — "Refugees YES! Racism NO! Detention centres have got to GO!" echoed around the foyer of the luxury Novotel Atrium hotel on February 1. More than 80 refugee solidarity activists protested federal immigration
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
BRISBANE — The fight for refugees' rights was given a boost on January 31 when 50 people picketed a meeting attended by immigration minister Philip Ruddock at Brisbane's main immigration department offices.
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BY DICK NICHOLS
CHICAGO — Inevitably, the annual convention of the US International Socialist Organization, which took place in this freezing "windy city" between January 18 and 20, was dominated by two questions. How invulnerable is the US
BY NADEEM ANSARI & KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — At a January 31 public meeting, Lionel Bopage from Friends for Peace in Sri Lanka appealed to the new Sri Lankan government to begin peace negotiations with the Tamil population. Bopage recently
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON — The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) has spent the last week in unsuccessful negotiations with Consolidated Meat Group management in an attempt to reopen the Lakes Creek meatworks. CMG
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — It says something about the nature of the South Australian election campaign that a highlight so far has been the Liberals' misspelling of Premier Rob Kerin's name (as "Ron") on the front cover of their primary
BY ADAM HANIEH
RAMALLAH — Over the last week one topic has dominated conversation in the West Bank town of Ramallah: will tonight be the night? A general consensus holds that it is only a matter of time before Israeli tanks and troops take over
The following appeal for May 1 to be an international day of action against the Unites States government's bogus "war on terrorism" and in opposition to the military intervention in Mindanao was issued by the Solidarity of Filipino Workers (BMP)
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — It is the day before Australia Day. Matt Rich, Tim Doughney, Rachel Evans, Kim Halpin, James Crafti and myself — all members of the socialist youth group Resistance — are standing on the doorstep of the Maribyrnong
BY JOHN PILGER
One of my first assignments as a young reporter in Sydney was to go to the airport and ask famous people arriving from overseas what they thought of Australia. There was a checklist; our beer and beaches were near the top, followed
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — Refugee rights campaigners across the world have protested
against the Australian governmentÂ’s refugee policy. In Auckland, New Zealand
on January 26, activists picketed the Australian consulate. A similar picket
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