BY SARAH STEPHEN
The August 8 High Court decision that the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) had denied two applicants "natural justice" when its members lied about having studied all the material the applicants had submitted with their initial
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No Toxic Dump
By Paul Strangio
Pluto Press Australia, 2001
$24.95 (pb)
REVIEWED BY BEN COURTICE
Paul Strangio introduces No Toxic Dump by comparing the two
buzzwords “globalisation” and “community”. While “the revival of community
BY ALFREDO CASTRO
BOGOTA — US under-secretary of state for political affairs Marc Grossman
led a delegation of senior US political and military leaders to Colombia
to hold talks with the government of newly elected President Ivaro Uribe
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE — "Today, I want to tell you what it is like to be a refugee in Australia. I want to tell you what it is like to flee war and repression and only find more oppression. I am no longer in a detention centre, but now it
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — A "No War on Iraq" coalition was founded at a meeting on August 22 attended by representatives of the Greens, the Socialist Alliance, the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, as well as the National Union of Students, Labor
BY JOSEPHINE HUNT
CANBERRA — On the evening of August 21, the ACT Legislative Assembly voted nine to eight to take abortion out of the Crimes Act and repeal other anti-choice legislation, giving the ACT the most progressive abortion (non-) law
BY SUE BOLTON
SYDNEY — Delegates from the NSW printing division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union met on August 22 to discuss the sacking of national industrial officer for the printing division, Denis Matson, by AMWU national
BY NORM DIXON
On August 18, the New York Times carried a front-page story headlined, "Officers say U.S. aided Iraq despite the use of gas". Quoting anonymous US "senior military officers", the NYT "revealed" that in the 1980s, the administration of
BY NATALIE ZIRNGAST
While ACT women can now access abortion without fear of criminal prosecution, elsewhere in Australia women accessing abortion face a web of legal and medical barriers. This is the situation around the country.
New South Wales
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — On August 20, the Victorian state Liberal Party dumped its parliamentary leader of the last two years, Denis Napthine, and replaced him with former health spokesperson Robert Doyle.
The elevation of Doyle
BY DALE T. MCKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — Until recently, not many people were aware of the community of Thembalihle (literal translation — "place of hope"). Situated south of Soweto, Thembalihle had its beginnings when workers moved there to be
Report on labour repression in China
US-based Human Rights Watch has released a new report detailing the growing repression of worker protests in China.
The report details struggles that occurred between March and May in three cities in
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