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BY ALISON DELLIT Since September 11, the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee has documented more than 300 incidents of abuse or harassment of Muslims in Australia, including: A pregnant Muslim women having her head smashed against a metal
BY JO WILLIAMS MELBOURNE — Supporting a three-day hunger strike in defence of refugee rights on September 22, I was dismayed to be the target of some of the increasing physical and verbal violence against refugees and their supporters. Jorge
BY EVA CHENG During 1999-2000, four of the Asian countries most seriously hit by the 1997-98 economic crisis — Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand — appeared to be recovering sharply. But things swiftly turned sour at the end of last
BY LESLIE RICHMOND With South Australia's "non"-election campaign well underway, both Labor and the governing Liberals are scraping into each other's past records to convince voters to put them back into government next year. The Liberals have
Racists hiding behind feminism Since the September 11 mass murders in the United States, attacks on Muslims in Australia have dramatically increased. Nearly 90% of those reported have been upon women wearing the hijab (clothing worn by Muslims, for
[The following is an abridged version of a statement issued September 27 by the national office of the US Vietnam Veterans Against the War. For the full version visit the VVAW web site at <http://www.vvaw.org>.] The terrorist attacks on
BY NORM DIXON Since the appalling acts of mass murder in New York and Washington on September 11, US President George Bush has at times sounded like a fire-and-brimstone preacher. With home-spun, Bible-inspired homilies, Bush has warned that the
BY SARAH STEPHEN Despite being pushed off the front pages by the September 11 attacks in the US, the Australian government's scandalous treatment of asylum seekers has continued unabated. The government's "war on refugees" reached a new level of
WOLLONGONG — Six-hundred residents, unionists and environmentalists voted at a September 29 protest to keep the pressure on to preserve the Sandon Point wetlands. The rally was called by the Northern Illawarra Residents Action Group in response the
SAN FRANCISCO — We've all heard about the incidents: "Middle Eastern-looking" passengers being walked off aircraft because of "fear" by other passengers or flight attendants or pilots. At San Francisco's airport up to 10 people daily have suffered
BY ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — Despite the long weekend, 250 people turned up to Garema Place on September 30 to oppose the military build-up around Afghanistan. This follows a 500-strong rally on September 20 calling for peace. A meeting called at
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY& KATHY NEWNAM ADELAIDE — Following the brutal attack on detained refugees during a September 22 solidarity protest outside Woomera detention centre, a refugee action collective has been set up in Adelaide. The police launched