BY SARAH STEPHEN
Refugees on temporary protection visas make up an expanding component of the Australian government's intake of refugees. At the end of May, there were 8400 people living in Australia on TPVs.
Between July 2000 and June 2001, more
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NAURU — I am an Afghan asylum seeker from Nauru camp. I am writing this letter hoping that you would understand and help us.
About nine months ago the Australian government brought us to Nauru Island and put us in a very bad camp called
Museworthy: Unborn
At 3am I paint the solesof my daughter's feetwith red glitter
There are no reasons to deathbut how greatunreason
The silver cars on their dark wheelsare parkingin our street
The baby of the poor womanhas put its
BY SARAH STEPHEN
After a two-year fight, the Badraie family, who fled to Australia from Iran in March 2000, have been granted refugee status and issued with temporary protection visas.
The Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) announced its decision on
BY TAMARA PEARSONÂ
BATHURST — Charles Sturt University's (CSU) solution to federal funding
cuts is to axe courses and fire staff. The students' response has been
to organise.
The students have been camping outside CSU management's
BY ERTUGRUL KURKCU
ISTANBUL — Top Pentagon brass may have doubts about the feasibility of the circulating war plans for Iraq, but George Bush's envoys have convinced Turkish decision-makers that a US military operation to overthrow Saddam
Unless it's private health insurance funds
"Well we're not in the business of bailing out commercial enterprises... I can assure you that that won't be happening." — Prime Menzies John Howard, speaking to 3AW's Neil Mitchell on August 2, in
BY JOHN MCGILL
ADELAIDE — Janet Giles, former president of the South Australian branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU), was recently elected unopposed as the secretary of the South Australian United Trades and Labor Council (UTLC). She
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Two Indonesians of Chinese descent fled to Australia from Indonesia
seeking asylum on the basis of religious and ethnic persecution after the
fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998. Assessed as separate cases, they
were
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The mood among the 52 delegates, representing nine NSW Socialist
Alliance branches, was confident while tinged with a sense of urgency,
when they gathered for the alliance's state conference on August 3.
The
BY SUSAN AUSTIN
CAIRNS — A meeting of health union delegates and members on August 7 launched a campaign committee to organise the intensifying health workers' industrial dispute. This followed a similar meeting the week before which voted to
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