BY IGGY KIM
On September 11, the Indonesian army in Aceh announced that it had
taken into custody two foreigners — Lesley McCulloch, an Australian academic
of British citizenship, and Joy-Lee Sadler, a US nurse — and their Acehnese
509
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — Three hundred people attended a September 14 forum organised
by Australians for a Just Peace around the slogan “our grief is not a cry
for war”.
The forum was chaired by ABC radio presenter Sandy McCutcheon,
Respectful, like a subordinate should be
"The United States helped found the United Nations. We want the United Nations to be effective, and respectful, and successful." — George "The Crusader" Bush, addressing the UN General Assembly,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
For two years, Kevin John Enniss was a paid informant of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). He was also at the heart of the people-smuggling business in Indonesia.
Enniss went far beyond the normal role of an informant. At the
BY IGGY KIM & NICK EVERETT
An "informal" meeting of 25 trade ministers will be hosted by the World Trade Organisation in Sydney on November 14-15.
The meeting will be a caucus, involving the advanced capitalist countries plus a handful of the
BY PHIL CHILTON
PERTH — On September 9, about 60 people staged a vigil outside the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs in Perth. The vigil was for Steven Khan.
Khan is one of the asylum seekers locked in
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Oh yes! I'm the Great Pretender!Pretending I'm for human rights.My badge, you see, is from Amnesty,But my heart says, "Australia is for the whites!"
Oh yes! I'm the Great Pretender!I claim to protect girls and boys,But look that's not my style: I
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Bands and performers from a range of music styles have joined forces with refugee-rights activists to organise a Rock for Refugees benefit concert next month.
The all-ages, seven-hour concert on October 27 will
Labor sells out on war
The “me-too” approach that Prime Minister John Howard and his cabinet
have taken to the US war drive against Iraq has given the ALP some leeway
to appear to be an opposition on this issue. It isn't.
Both the
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — Indonesian police used tear gas and water cannons to attempt
to subdue a large demonstration outside the parliament of the Jakarta special
province on September 11.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered to
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