As supporters of refugees' rights prepared to mark August 26, the anniversary of the rescue of 433 refugees by the MV Tampa, as Tampa Day to shame the federal government, immigration minister Philip Ruddock fought back.
On August 24, Ruddock had
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BY NICK FREDMAN
What should be the response of workers in the higher education sector towards the Israeli occupation of Palestine? This question has been posed over the last several months by a petition circulated by two Australian academics
BY DAVID GOSLING
YOGYAKARTA — Indonesian workers are braving police repression to oppose President Megawati Sukarnoputri's IMF-inspired draft labour laws. So far strikes and protest rallies across the country have succeeded in pushing back the
BY ERIN CAROLAN
SYDNEY — On August 26, more than 130 students and teachers wore black armbands to mark Tampa Day at Fort Street High School. Fortians for Refugees hoped to promote increased awareness of the inhumane nature of mandatory detention
BY FARIDA IQBAL
From October 4 to 11, anti-nuclear campaigners around the world will be marking Keep Space for Peace Week. The week, an initiative of the Global Network against Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, is an effort to stop the
BY TIM E STEWART
BRISBANE — A crowd of 1500 people packed City Hall on August 28 to commemorate one year since the Tampa refugee crisis. The public meeting, convened by Australians for Just Refugee Programs, heard from a panel of speakers who
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
On August 15 an Indonesian court convicted Abilio Soares, the former Jakarta-appointed governor of East Timor, of failing to rein in subordinates in September 1999 as pro-Jakarta militias rampaged, killing at least 1000 East
BY SIMON BUTLER
It's now been
a year since Pauline Hanson's advice to turn away boatloads of desperate
refugees became Australian government policy. But the unjust treatment
meted out to refugees has sparked a movement of anti-racist
Viet Nam VoicesAn exhibition of art, photos and videosQueensland Museum, South Bank, BrisbaneDeveloped and toured by the Casula Powerhouse Arts CentreUntil September 29
REVIEW BY JIM McILROY
The Viet Nam Voices exhibition is deeply moving,
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — As the picket line set up by Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers Union officials and their supporters reached its 12th day on August 26, an emergency AMWU national council was meeting. The workers, striking
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — The Blair government was told in January by the Americans that there was no justification for attacking Iraq in the "war on terrorism" and that their main aim was getting rid of Saddam Hussein, who stood in the way of the
BY WILL KNIGHT
Dinny Tumbler, a sixty-five-year-old Aboriginal man, camps in a small room attached to the home of his daughter and son-in-law at the Bellary Aboriginal community, between Paraburdoo and Tom Price in north-west Western Australia.
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