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Comment & Analysis

Green Left Weekly issue #816, 4 November 2009
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LETTERS Time to revive the refugee rights movement

OUR COMMON CAUSE At first, the flow of people fleeing horrors like the Sri Lankan government’s concentration camps for Tamils and Afghanistan’s killing fields didn’t test the capacity of the Christmas Island detention centre » Emergency rescue worker speaks: refugee solidarity on the high seas

The fatal explosion on board a boat carrying 47 Afghan refugees in April created a storm of controversy in Australian politics and the media. » Gay Bangledeshi couple denied asylum

A gay Bangladeshi couple have been battling to gain citizenship in Australia for 10 years. The Refugee Review Tribunal knocked back their claims three times, and three times a higher court has overturned the rulings. » Australian Tamil: allow refugees in

Justice and Freedom for Ceylon Tamils is a human rights action group based in Melbourne. It was formed in 2007. A spokesperson for the group, Nagamuthu Wickiramasingham, told Green Left Weekly that Tamil refugees had good reason to flee the brutal Sri Lankan regime by boat. » Military budget could pay for renewables

Admit it: you’re just a little disturbed when industrialists, fossil-fuel lobbyists and the Liberal and National parties thunder that big, quick cuts to carbon emissions would bankrupt Australian business. Well, aren’t you? » Racism is not a ‘special measure’

The following abridged statement was released on October 29 by Aboriginal people from Northern Territory communities targeted by the federal government’s NT Emergency Response laws. » Riding inflation, frozen wages

It seems like only yesterday we were being exhorted to spend. Pensioners, parents, homebuyers and workers were plied with “free” money from the Labor government and asked to go and spend it to save the economy. » Working-class hero honoured

On November 2, 1923, 636 members of the Victorian police force went on strike. All were sacked and replaced by volunteer strikebreakers. »


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