1000 sign to oppose refugee policy
HOBART — More than 1000 people have signed a handmade, leather-bound book in one week to demonstrate their dissent from the federal government's refugee policies.
The project was launched by Tasmanians for
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HOBART — The Greens won four seats in the July 20 Tasmanian election, the result of a record Greens vote. ALEX BAINBRIDGE and DARREN JIGGINS spoke to Greens' leader PEG PUTT.
Putt described the Greens' result as a "community victory, not simply
BY NORM DIXON
The Australian government has the dubious distinction of being one of only three governments — along with Britain and Israel — to have unconditionally endorsed the United States' impending invasion of Iraq. Washington is
BY MARK WEISBROT
WASHINGTON, DC — Last week's trip to South America by US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill is Washington's latest response to growing discontent about economic failure in the developing world.
O'Neill, who has become known for
A ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the organisation fighting for the national self-determination
of the Tamil people in the island's north and east, has lasted almost six
months.
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE — The Moreland City Council is proposing rate increases as high as 22%. The rate increases, which are scheduled for September, are the highest ever proposed in Victoria and are as high as seven times the inflation
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Around a thousand people participated in rallies across the country commemorating the 57th anniversary of the US nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
In Sydney, some 500
SYDNEY — Every Sunday at 9pm, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly readers in Sydney
can escape the usual Hollywood tripe for two hours and enjoy radical news
and current affairs analysis. Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) broadcasts
a mix of documentaries,
BY SIMON BUTLER
Afghan temporary protection visa holder and refugees' rights activist
Riz Wakil is embarking on a whirlwind speaking tour on university campuses
along the east coast.
Wakil, who is an activist in Free the Refugees
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — August 6 was the 12th anniversary of the imposition of sanctions
on Iraq by the United States. To mark the day and demand that the sanctions
be lifted unconditionally, a 24-hour picket was staged outside the US
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Centrelink, the federal government's social payment delivery
agency, is demanding that its staff agree to work seven days a week at
standard pay. Workers would be rostered as required by management, rather
than
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
SYDNEY — In NSW in the 2001 federal election the swing against the
ALP was twice the national average. Federal Labor's posture as pro-worker
and a defender of public services such as schools and hospitals could not
hold
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