Three members of Iraq聮s Olympic soccer team and one of the team聮s assistant coaches announced their intention to apply for asylum in Australia after an international game in Gosford on November 17. They are currently on three-month temporary visas as athletes, and as such are not being sought by the immigration department.
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Indonesian activists in the National Liberation Party of Unity (PAPERNAS) continue to face government-sponsored thuggery and have appealed for support from Australian activists to help them defend their democratic rights.
Two conferences of the English anti-war party, Respect 鈥 The Unity Coalition, were convened on November 17 in London. Both were attended by around 350 people. The 鈥淩espect Renewal鈥 forces were led by MP George Galloway and 19 other non-Socialist Workers Party members of Respect鈥檚 national council. The SWP convened its own conference across town.
On November 18, PM John Howard announced that the federal government would consider extending the welfare quarantine currently in place for all Aboriginals on welfare in the NT to all welfare recipients convicted of drug offences. 聯It聮s not right that people should have control of taxpayer money when they have been convicted of such offences聰, he told ABC News. 聯This will mean that they will not be able to spend the money on those sorts of drugs, or indeed, for that matter, on alcohol and tobacco.聰
The Wilderness Society (TWS) has lost its Federal Court appeal, in which it argued that then-federal environment minister Malcolm Turnbull鈥檚 assessment of the Tamar Valley pulp mill was inadequate. The appeal was dismissed by three judges on November 22, but TWS spokesperson Greg Ogle said the it would not give up campaigning. 鈥淭he pulp mill is no closer to being built today than it was yesterday鈥, he said.
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"I would say that we would always try diplomacy first. In other words, I've committed our troops into harm's way twice, and it's not a pleasant experience because I understand the consequences firsthand." 鈥 Emperor George
More than 200 prominent individuals from the arts and showbusiness in the United States have signed a letter addressed to President George Bush expressing their support for cultural relations between the US and Cuba.
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