BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Howard government's Migration Legislation Amendment (Procedural
Fairness) Bill 2002 passed through the House of Representatives with the
support of the Labor Party on June 26 with very little publicity.
The new act
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REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHENÂ
Escape to Paradise
Directed by Nino Jacusso
With Duzgun Ayhan, Fidan Firat, Nurettin Yildiz and Walo Luond
Distributed by First Hand Films
Frontieres (Borders)
Directed by Mostefa Djadjam
With Lou
Socialist Alliance makes refugees an issue
in Tassie poll
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART — The day after Premier Jim Bacon's June 21 calling of the
Tasmanian election, there was a 500-strong refugees' rights rally in Hobart
— the largest
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — The remarkable ease with which the mainstream media obscures the reality of life for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has been starkly demonstrated by its coverage of US President George
BY IAN JAMIESON
PERTH — Unions in Western Australia have welcomed a package of industrial law reforms introduced by the Labor state government. Unions WA secretary Stephanie Mayman described Labor's bill as an important step forward but it "does
The Game
I must tell you of my felony.
It is, that at every moment, I was falling away
from beauty.
In a woman's face I was the eternal coldness,
in her hands the unmaturing child
growing heavier, disturbing her spine
year
Global Circus
Roll up, roll up,
to the head of the queue.
Step up, step up,
come take a pew.
Gather round you clowns
applaud the acrobats
of global domination.
Cheer on the jugglers
Of world-wide manipulation.
Come to the
Write On — letters to the editor
Refugees
Jim Faggotter (Write On GLW #491) says that if Australia's detention
centres were closed we would get “millions of refugees”.
Undoubtedly, if refugees were treated more humanely the number
Activists “welcomed” the G8 summit, held in Kananaskis, Canada,
June 26-28, with a string of anti-corporate protests. On June 26, some
4000 people took part in a three-hour snake march through Calgary, the
closest city to Kananaskis. The march
Big Sister?
Australia's Big Brother television show is unfortunately not
unique. In the last three years, 36 different versions of the show have
been aired around the world — but while 50% of the “contestants” are always
women,
BY JESS MELVIN & BEN COURTICEÂ
MELBOURNE — Culminating a week of pro-refugee protest action, 100
high school students gathered outside Flinders Street Station on June 28,
despite bucketing rain.
“People our age are the victims
BY NICK EVERETT
& SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Since the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction
Industry began sitting in Sydney in early June, lurid employer claims of
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
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