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Lemonade & Buns/Tog E Go Bog EKilaGreen Linnet records REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS Kila play Irish music the likes of which you've never heard. Forget your notions about tiddly diddly dee and them boring auld laments and dirges. This lot of young
BY SEAN WALSH MELBOURNE — One feature of the new anti-corporate movement has been revived activism amongst queer groups, in particular amongst students, which has sought to link the discrimination and vilification faced by gays and lesbians to
Curtin Immigration Detention Centre Location: RAAF base outside Derby, in the far north of Western Australia. Capacity: 1000 people (1200 people being held). Description: Tents and pre-fabricated huts used as accomodation, surrounded by
BY PATRICK BOND ACCRA — There are signs of genuine hope in Ghana. In May, I was privileged to witness a careful regrouping of the country's former revolutionary student/community movement, which is strengthening its political base by addressing
BY WILL WILLIAMS WOLLONGONG — Unions claimed victory over BHP in last week's dispute over individual contracts and workplace safety. After a three-day strike, BHP was forced to delay its contracting out of protective services workers at its Port
REVIEWED BY PHIL SHANNON The Tombstone Imperative: The Truth About Air SafetyBy Andrew WeirSimon & Schuster, 2000372 pp, $14.95 (pb) "Nothing is more important to us than safety", "Safety is our number one priority": all the variations on this
@box text intr = The June 3 demonstrations to free the refugees will be the first nationally co-ordinated actions in support of refugees in Australia's history. It is a tragedy that they are necessary. Australia offers no welcome haven to those
BY SARAH STEPHEN In a dawn raid on May 26, state and federal police, immigration officials and Australasian Correctional Management staff descended on the Port Hedland immigration detention centre to seize and remove detainees involved in a May 11
BY PATRICIA CORCORAN & ARUN PRADHAN "Listen! Please, just for a moment. Who is crying? Who is moaning? Since long ago we detainees at the Woomera Detention Centre have been suffering. We are human ... We have got blood in our vessels like you."
BY MELANIE SJOBERG Workplace relations minister Tony Abbott has called for an inquiry into the construction industry, alleging widespread corruption, fraud and intimidation of workers. What this really represents is a blatant political

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