BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — The Australian Press Council on November 30 denounced the federal government's restrictions on media access to asylum seekers. Council chairperson Professor Ken McKinnon accused the government of "severely restricting the
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BY NORM DIXON
Until 1988, the United States at every turn blocked attempts to secure a negotiated settlement between the left-wing Peoples Democratic Party government in Afghanistan and sections of the right-wing mujaheddin opposition. This delayed
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — On the eve of immigration minister Philip Ruddock's departure for Geneva to attend a landmark ministerial meeting, beginning on December 12, of signatory states to the 1951 refugee convention, refugee rights activists have
BY ROB MILLER
If there was an Academy Awards ceremony for terrorism, Israel would sweep every category — and every acceptance speech would have to thank the government of United States, whose generous support has made Israel the most successful
BY TAMARA PEARSON
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
BY SEAN HEALY
The crisis-wracked Argentine economy looks likely to take another battering after the International Monetary Fund on December 6 announced it blocked a US$1.3 billion loan which the government had hoped would lessen its financial
The chairperson of Rio Tinto, Sir Robert Wilson, told an mining industry conference in 1999 that a "pressing concern for the mining and metals industry is the need to overcome its poor public perceptions of our industry's performance in relation to
@box text intr = Capitalist governments are no friends of civil liberties and democratic rights at the best of times. Since the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York, they have been seizing the opportunity all around the world to
Israel
Sorry, Philip Mendes, but Narendra Mohan Kommalapati is quite clear in denouncing the State of Israeli as a racist state, while you muddily mix up the Israeli state and the population that lives under its misrule.
The state is a weapon of
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