BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — The Northern Territory's draconian Public Order and Anti-Social Conduct Act may soon be repealed by the NT Labor government. Pippa Rudd, spokesperson for NT Attorney-General Peter Toyne, told Green Left Weekly on
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BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Two-hundred and fifty people rallied in the Queen Street mall on January 25 to support the rights of refugees protesting inside Woomera detention centre.
The rally, organised by the Brisbane Refugee Action Collective,
BY KATE WILSON
"A boy my age inside tried to hang himself with his bed sheet last night", 16-year-old Resistance member Jess Melvin told protesters holding a vigil outside western Melbourne's Maribyrnong detention centre on January 24. "I can go to
The Coalition government is facing a serious political crisis. The desperate and heroic actions of more than 300 hunger strikers at Woomera and Maribyrnong detention centres have again focused the spotlight on the inhumanity and illegality of the
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
Lost amid the Howard government's refugee bashing re-election hype was the news of its success in trying to crush another one of its targets, the union movement.
In November the long-running Federal Court case brought against
BYTAMARA PEARSON
SYDNEY — Around 250 of the refugees in Woomera belong to the Hazara ethnic group from Afghanistan. Zaher, a long-time activist in Afghanistan before he escaped in 1999, explained to Green Left Weekly why immigration minister
On January 12 Lakes Creek Consolidated Meat Group (CMG), owned by Kerry Packer, broke the news to Rockhampton 1350 meatworkers that it was closing its doors and they no longer had jobs.
Lakes Creek CMG management claims the plant's closure is due
GLW sets fundraising target
BY JON LAND
2002 will mark an important milestone for the Green Left Weekly — the 500th issue comes off the presses mid-year. With the contraction of media ownership in Australia during that decade, GLW is an
New Zealand and refugees
The news that New Zealand has taken a number of refugees from the Tampa and integrated them directly into the community shows up the extreme inhumanity and injustice of the Australian government.
It is also worth
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — While preparations were going ahead for the official jingoistic parade to celebrate Australia Day, around 300 Murris and their supporters gathered on January 26 to mark decades of Aboriginal struggle for land and
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