BY SARAH STEPHEN
One of immigration minister Philip Ruddock's central arguments against accepting "queue jumpers" (read, onshore arrivals) from Afghanistan is because they know that they have a better chance of being granted asylum in Australia
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BY HAMISH ALCORN
We don't have to look very far to discover that the Commonwealth Heads of State Meetings are all about spreading human rights and democracy and struggling against poverty, disease and environmental degradation.
In the words of
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — In February, just before it was elected to government in Western Australia, the state ALP promised it would repeal legislation enforcing voluntary student unionism (VSU) within 100 days of being elected.
Two months
SYDNEY - "Open the borders", "Refugees are welcome" and "Close the camps" were just some of the slogans that resounded through the city on September 9. More than 1500 people marched from Town Hall to Prime Minister John Howard's office to protest
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — "We need a formation like Socialist Alliance to take the battle of refugee rights to the streets", Friends of the Earth Melbourne coordinator Cam Walker told a dinner and launch of the Gellibrand Socialist Alliance
BY MATT GRAINGER
One of the poorest countries in Africa is about to undergo a process of debt reduction with a difference. It will be paying more in debt servicing after creditors provide debt relief than it is at present, with devastating
BY EVA CHENG
The July 1 speech of Communist Party (CP) chief Jiang Zemin that the party should throw its door open to capitalists has provoked outrage among its ranks — prompting Jiang to close down at least four journals which printed critical
BY SARAH STEPHEN
While the repression and violence in Afghanistan would be enough to make anyone flee, the conditions facing women are even worse than those facing men:
Women are totally deprived of the right to education and work;
No woman can
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Coalition government claims Australia is a very generous country which takes in large numbers of refugees, and that asylum seekers arriving on our shores are simply taking advantage of that reputation.
Of the 10 countries who
BY JONINA M ABRON
DURBAN — The United States government's withdrawal from the third World Conference Against Racism is consistent with its role in the two previous international conferences on racism. It boycotted those, too.
A review of
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Five hundred people protested on September 2 against a visit by the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia, Janaka Perera. Because of the protest, Perera's meeting was shifted to another venue.
Perera, a former
BY VONANI WA KA BILA
DURBAN — More than 3000 landless South Africans — women, farm workers, chiefs and young people — gathered on August 30 at the Roger Rovers Club for the International Landless People's Assembly, called by the newly formed
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