Jane Keogh is a refugee-rights activist in the Canberra Refugee Action Committee. After visiting Baxter detention center in January, she spoke to Green Left Weekly about the conditions in the centre.
Keogh met 41 people in the
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CANBERRA — Labor Senator Kate Lundy has spoken out against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, saying that the policy "in its current form is not an acceptable way to process asylum seekers" and that "children should never
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NEWCASTLE — The 150 activists who gathered for it will certainly long remember this year's annual Queer Collaborations conference, held here from July 9-13. The formal agenda prepared by the QC organising collective included
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NEWCASTLE — "No person shall, in connection with any election, simultaneously campaign [for a candidate] and engage in political activities". This is just one of the amendments to the rules and regulations governing the conduct of
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Newcastle students to strikeNEWCASTLE — Resistance members at high schools and the university here plan to walk out of class on Friday, April 14 to protest against mandatory sentencing. An overwhelming response from their
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J18 rally attacks corporate tyrannySYDNEY — On June 18, a global carnival against corporate tyranny was held. It began here with an "Anti-Business Lunch", a rally of about 350 people in Martin Place. Speakers came from a range
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On November 21, National Union of Students delegates, office bearers and observers gathered in Campbelltown for the 1998 NSW branch conference. "It was a joke" said Alison Dellit, a Resistance member and delegate
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ANU students go to the polls By Will Williamsand Erin Killion CANBERRA — Elections for the students' association at the Australian National University take place this week. Green Left Weekly spoke to Dave Gosling, Resistance activist and