A moving portrayal of refugeesPERTH — Refugee Week, sponsored by Austcare and the Refugee Council of Australia, ended with the multi-media production In Search of Peace at the Artists Club on June
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From Soweto to PerthPERTH — A Cultural Dissent program for youth, "From Soweto to Perth", was held here on June 18 to draw the international links in struggles by young people for freedom and justice. Eighteen
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PERTH — After two long years of battling against victimisation and sexual discrimination in employment, Gail McIntosh and Heather Horne on April 21 were awarded $92,000 in compensation by the Equal Opportunity Commission.
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PERTH — Around 30,000 people attended the Multicultural Festival at Sorrento Quay on Sunday, March 27. A feast of events celebrated the end of a Multicultural Week as well as the Year of the Family.
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PERTH — It's Artrage time again, Perth's annual arts festival. Artrage has become a predominantly mainstream arts festival, with a lack of dissenting art and hence a lack of "rage". Artrage has
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PERTH — Young migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds experience an institutionalised racism second only to Aboriginal youth. A report released here confirms that migrant youth experience higher
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PERTH — Heather Horne and Gail McIntosh, previously employed at Press Clough, a joint venture producing accommodation modules for Woodside's North West Shelf gas rig site, are currently bringing a case of
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MELBOURNE — There have been squatters for as long as there has been the concept of owning land. At certain times it has been condoned, but not today. Last century, Australian land was settled by the "squattocracy", the
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MELBOURNE — About 200 people attended a September 12 protest against the proposed Williamstown Mobil oil refinery expansion into a two-kilometre buffer zone around the plant. Construction in the zone, which