BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — Refugees' rights activists scored a major victory on October 22, as students voted to declare the University of Western Australia Guild a refugee safe haven. Nearly 900 students voted during the half-day of polling,
514
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — The 45,000-strong anti-war rally in Melbourne on October
14 has spurred anti-war groups here to unite to build the largest possible
rally on November 30. A meeting of some 60 people on October 21 agreed
to organise a
BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
CHICAGO — Iraq is one of the largest oil resources in the world —
with proven reserves of 112 billion barrels of oil, second only to Saudi
Arabia. This simple fact has shaped Iraq's relationship with the rest of
the
BY PHIL SHANNON
CANBERRA — By the close of voting on October 23, 93% of staff in the federal Department of Health and Ageing (DHA) had voted in favour of the department's next certified agreement.
This overwhelming endorsement followed a
BY BONNY CAMPBELL
SYDNEY — On October 22, Klaus Rohland, the World Bank country director
for Papua New Guinea, East Timor and the Pacific Islands, addressed a lecture
at Sydney University on instability in PNG and the Pacific. The abstract
BY SARAH PEART
GLASGOW — The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is averaging 9% support in the latest opinion polls for elections to the Scottish parliament, which puts it on par with the Conservative Party. The SSP is looking to increase its
IRAQ
Clean lies, dirty wars
BY PATRICIA AXELROD
Twenty-two months after Desert Storm, I was finally on my way to
Amman, Jordan, the gateway to Iraq. Somewhere over Europe, I caught a glimpse
of the Kafkaland to come when I heard that
BY SUSAN REES & SUSAN AUSTIN
CAIRNS — More than 300 psychiatrists, health academics, mental health practitioners, advocates and cons- umers converged on Cairns from September 12-14 for the triennial conference of the Royal Australian and New
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — For
the last two months, a coalition initiated by the Australian Fair Trade
and Investment Network has been meeting to organise a “Stop the WTO agenda”
rally for noon on November 14 in Hyde Park. Another coalition,
BY SUE BOLTON
On October 24, the Victorian state council of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union appointed Dave Oliver as state secretary of the AMWU, and industrial officer Steve Dargavel as assistant state secretary, with responsibility for
BY SIMON ABRAHAMS
MELBOURNE — Creative arts students from the University of Melbourne have responded to Australia's treatment of asylum seekers with Asylum, a theatrical work that addresses issues of "border protection" and the farce of the
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — While Indonesian police investigations, conducted in cooperation with Australian, US, British and other police forces, continue into the October 12 Bali bombings, the policy responses to the bombing by President Megawati
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