BY SARAH STEPHEN
The New Zealand government announced on May 6 that it would accept 140 refugees — 71 Afghans and 69 Iraqis— to ease pressure on United Nations refugee camps in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Nauru.
Fourteen of the refugees
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BY SHANE BENTLEY
Seventeen seafarers aboard the CSL Yarra docked in Port Pirie, South Australia, began a sit-in on May 1 in an attempt to stop Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) replacing them with poorly paid Ukrainian labour.
Maritime unions are
BY TARIQ ALI
LAHORE — It has been a stunningly beautiful spring in Pakistan. But
the surface calm is deceptive. When the war in Afghanistan began, I suggested
that the Taliban would be rapidly defeated and that the jihadi organisations
and
The commemoration of the forced integration of West Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya, now Papua) with Indonesia on May 1 was marked by peaceful protests by pro-independence supporters across West Papua's major towns.
The demonstrations condemned
BY ERIC RUDER
CHICAGO — A pro-Palestinian student group at the University of California-Berkeley has won its free speech fight against the administration's attempts to silence it.
After an outpouring of support — both on campus and around the
BY JON LAND
On the eve of East Timor's independence on May 20, the crucial issue of the Timor Gap has still to be fully resolved. East Timor may lose billions of dollars in oil and gas royalties if the Australian government and the large
BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) held a rally on May 6 outside the offices of Canada Steamship Lines in support of CSL Yarra seafarers.
The "Australian workers for Australian jobs" rally was greeted by the Sydney
Blaming the victim I
"As Israeli forces pursued militants, civilians continued getting in the way and dying as a result." — New York Times report, April 21.
Blaming the victim II
"The trouble is that we are facing a Palestinian leadership
BY LISA MACDONALD
ARMIDALE — A May 8 public meeting discussed how to galvanise public support for ending the federal government's brutal asylum-seeker policy. The 50-strong meeting was titled "Refugees: what is to be done".
Organised by the
Last September, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that the Labour-Alliance coalition government she leads would be willing to take a small number of the 430 refugees aboard the MV Tampa, which was then stranded in seas off Christmas Island by the Australian government's refusal to let it dock.
Palestine solidarity protest planned
WOLLONGONG — At a May 11 meeting, Palestinian solidarity activists decided to call a protest on May 25 to help free Palestine. The rally will begin at 10.30 am outside Fred Moore House in Lowden Square and
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), a network of more than 200 non-government organisations, has attacked Israel's refusal to allow United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan's fact-finding mission to the ravaged West Bank refugee camp of
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