BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — Julia Gillard, Labor's shadow minister for immigration and ethnic affairs, told a February 6 public meeting attended by more than 200 people that she was "not ashamed of the decisions Labor took in the run up to the
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Sorry
"I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him." — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat.
Embarrassed
"He can't leave his home. He is so embarrassed about this." — Tom Skilling on his brother,
By Kate Wilson
Shayan Bedraie made the perilous journey from Iran to Australia by boat with his Kurdish family, fleeing from government repression. He was only four years old, but the Australian immigration system placed him in mandatory detention,
BY EVA CHENG
Under severe pressure from the Bush administration and the International Monetary Fund, the five-week-old government of Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde has chosen the "lesser evil" of floating his country's currency, the peso,
BY ALAN MAASS
CHICAGO — "There are business scandals that are so vast and so penetrating that they profoundly shock our most deeply held beliefs about the honesty and integrity of our corporate culture. Enron Corp is one of them. This financial
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — After attending an evening lecture at one of this city's universities last August, a young woman was dragged into the bushes and raped in a badly lit area of the campus. She could not identify her attacker. The woman
and ain't i a woman?: Gender and the 'sanctity of marriage'
"Kevin" and "Jennifer" (names assigned to them by the Family Court) are a perfectly ordinary couple in their mid-30s, except that Kevin was born a female. In 1965, Kevin started life
BY SUE BOLTON
SYDNEY — The two main unions covering Qantas maintenance workers,
the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Australian Workers
Union (AWU), won a small victory on February 4 when they forced Qantas
to stop
BY ALISON DELLIT
In GLW #479, Leon Parissi from Workers Liberty, an affiliate party to the Socialist Alliance, accuses me of "cheering on those voices who are in favour of decreased union influence in the ALP". But what I, and the Democratic
By Danny Fairfax
Seattle, November 30, 1999: The summit of the World Trade Organisation, a gathering of world leaders and corporate chief committed to implementing a new round of pro-business trade talks is stopped by 80,000 protesters blockading
Anti-refugee policy can be abolished
Prime Minister John Howard and immigration minister Philip Ruddock stood
firm throughout the two-week hunger strike by asylum seekers in the Woomera
detention centre. Some said this was proof that
BY NORM DIXON
The United States has escalated its intervention in the civil war in Colombia with its February 5 announcement that Washington will help Colombia "protect" a strategic oil pipeline that is a frequent target of guerilla attacks.
The
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