BY SARAH STEPHEN
For two years, Kevin John Enniss was a paid informant of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). He was also at the heart of the people-smuggling business in Indonesia.
Enniss went far beyond the normal role of an informant. At the
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BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — The Illawarra Socialist Alliance met on September 8 and unanimously endorsed Chris "Will" Williams as its candidate in the October 19 federal by-election for the NSW seat of Cunningham.
Williams is a 24-year-old
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) held stop-work meetings during the week of September 9 to 13, at which they voted to hold a two-hour strike on
BY PHIL CHILTON
PERTH — On September 9, about 60 people staged a vigil outside the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs in Perth. The vigil was for Steven Khan.
Khan is one of the asylum seekers locked in
Labor sells out on war
The “me-too” approach that Prime Minister John Howard and his cabinet
have taken to the US war drive against Iraq has given the ALP some leeway
to appear to be an opposition on this issue. It isn't.
Both the
BY IGGY KIM
On September 11, the Indonesian army in Aceh announced that it had
taken into custody two foreigners — Lesley McCulloch, an Australian academic
of British citizenship, and Joy-Lee Sadler, a US nurse — and their Acehnese
BY KATELYN MOUNTFORD
In the last 25 years, capitalism's neo-liberal offensive has extended like a gag around the women of the world. It has stripped and privatised public services, pushing the duty of care back onto the family unit and, by
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Bands and performers from a range of music styles have joined forces with refugee-rights activists to organise a Rock for Refugees benefit concert next month.
The all-ages, seven-hour concert on October 27 will
Chile: The Other September 11
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For those tired of the patriotic
BY KATHY FAIRFAX
SYDNEY — Rex Rumakiek, a long-standing OPM (Organisasi Papua Merdeka) representative in Australia, denied that the West Papua independence group was involved in the August 31 attack on the giant US-owned Freeport gold and
BY IGGY KIM & NICK EVERETT
An "informal" meeting of 25 trade ministers will be hosted by the World Trade Organisation in Sydney on November 14-15.
The meeting will be a caucus, involving the advanced capitalist countries plus a handful of the
BY LYNDA HANSEN
BRISBANE — Thirty people attended a public meeting on September 12
to mark the fourth year since five Cubans were arrested in Miami and convicted
in June 2001 for espionage. They had been involved in monitoring right-wing
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