GLW issue 496, published 2002-06-19.

Images of struggle and survival

Behind the Tears ... Triumphant Voices: East Timor, a Photographic JourneyPhotographs by Ross Bird, David Dare Parker and Stephen DupontCurated by Emmanuel SantosPost Master Gallery, Australia Post House, corner Exhibition and La Trobe streets,

Build the refugees' rights movement

World Refugee Day on June 20 is an opportunity to reflect on how much progress the refugees' rights movement in Australia has made in a relatively short period. The last six months of organising, which includes the consolidation of a huge movement

Howard government rejects Kyoto Protocol

BY JIM GREEN Prime Minister John Howard announced in parliament on June 5 — World Environment Day — that the Australian government will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. The announcement followed ratification of the

Crean under pressure from refugee movement

BY ALISON DELLIT Departing from the usual carefully stage-managed "shows of unity", designed to sing the praises of federal and state Labor leaders, the ALP's three largest state conferences — NSW, Queensland and Victoria — have embarrassed

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Australian News

More attacks on Victorian unionists

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — The federal Coalition government is rolling out its big guns to attack Victoria's militant trade unionists. In the latest outburst, immigration minister Philip Ruddock slammed the Victorian branch of the Construction,

Unions attempt to stop deportation

BY CHRIS LATHAM PERTH — On June 1, Iranian asylum seeker Nader Sayadi Estahbanati was deported from Esperance in WA on the Iranian freighter Mazardaran. In 2000, Estahbanati and two friends stowed away on the Mazardaran to flee persecution in

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International News

INDIA: 10,000 families face inundation

GUJARAT - The Indian government's Narmada Control Authority (NCA) on May 17 arbitrarily decided to raise the height of the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from 90 to 95 metres. This will

PACIFIC: Decolonisation far from over

BY MICHELLE BREAR SUVA, Fiji — Since the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement's formation in 1975, the campaign for self-determination for Pacific island nations under colonial rule has been central to its work, and that of its

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Editorial

Build the refugees' rights movement

Cultural Dissent

Stephen Jay Gould fought to liberate science

BY LOUIS PROYECT NEW YORK — Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould died on May 20 of cancer at the age of 60. Not only was he the best known scientist in the United States, he was a committed progressive who served on the advisory board of the Brecht

Poem: Photos of Jenin

These are the photos of Jenin:There are housesin ruinsready-made mausoleumsfor the bodies within.There are facesof familiesfamilies in ruinsa son half in a pita body in a pool, human reda daughter unrecognisedthe open-mouthed faces of newly widowed

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