SYDNEY Around
3500 people stood for a minute's silence on October 26 to remember the
353 refugees who drowned needlessly one year ago to the day. The victims
of the October 13 Bali bombings were also remembered.
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SYDNEY Despite fancy audio technology, immigration minister Philip Ruddock could not be heard over angry chants when visiting the University of NSW on September 3 to address the Law Society on Australia's immigration
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BY TAMARA PEARSON & SIMON TAYLER SYDNEY — In a passionate show of defiance against police and media condemnation of militant protests, pro-refugee, anti-corporate and pro-Palestine activists converged on the Sydney offices of Australasian
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SYDNEY — On April 14, without any notice, 29 refugees being held in the Villawood detention centre were forcibly moved from the centre's stage 3 compound (where detainees without family members are kept) to the stage 1 compound,
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A new representation of Africa is emerging — Africa, the innocent, hopeless, starving child with big eyes pleading for our help. One of the main propagators of this image is World Vision, a Christian relief organisation. After
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SYDNEY — Sister Susan Connolly has counted 22 lies about refugees that have been spread by the federal government, she told the "People vs Philip Ruddock" public meeting held in Granville Town Hall on February 20. Organised by
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SYDNEY — Around 2000 people mobilised in Town Hall Square on February 2 to demand the closure of the Australian government's appalling immigration detention centres, an end to mandatory detention of asylum seekers and their
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No racism!Across Australia, thousands rallied on December 9 to commemorate International Human Rights Day. While the theme of the event varied across the country, the dominant demands were: "Stop the war in Afghanistan!" and
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SYDNEY — "The Australian government, supported by the Labor Party, turns away, terrorises and attacks defenceless people who are themselves fleeing terror, war and persecution", declared Max Lane, coordinator of Action in
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Anger is building in Sydney, after Premier Bob Carr blamed Middle Eastern gangs for a succession of sexual assaults in the city's south-west. On one side, led by Carr and the Daily Telegraph, is the beginnings of a lynch mob; on
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BY TAMARA PEARSON & SARAH STEPHEN Zaher and Riz are "illegal" Afghani refugees who were held in an immigration detention centre and eventually granted refugee status. They are now living in Sydney on three-year temporary protection visas. Green
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Los Angeles, 1950: A pre-war light-rail system, one of the most extensive in the world, was dismembered by car, tyre and bus manufacturers and an oil company. Tracks were ripped from their routes, stations were torn down and row