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BY LISA MacDONALD SYDNEY — NSW Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon called on January 22 for the state electoral commissioner to "clean out any potential spoiler parties" that aim to contest the next election. There is little doubt that there are bogus
Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn — Reporter, Lover, Traveller and RebelBy Carl RollysonDuffy and Snellgrove, 2001284 pages, $19.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Even without being the lover of HG Wells and the wife of Ernest
BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH — The Western Australian Labor government has finally unveiled its draft industrial relations legislation — and what a reaction. The bosses are screaming, the Liberal/National Coalition opposition is foaming at the mouth
BY SUE BOLTON A heated dispute which broke out in November within the New Zealand Alliance over its MPs support for the sending of SAS troops to participate in the US-led war in Afghanistan appears to have ended in a compromise. After a vigorous
BY ROB MILLER MELBOURNE — More than 500 people attended a protest called by the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) outside the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs on January 24. Many city workers attended the lunchtime rally to
BY LISA LINES ADELAIDE — Abbas is one of the many hundreds of refugees who fled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and made their way to Australia. He is one of the few lucky enough to have had his application for a temporary protection visa
BY TIM E.STEWART BRISBANE — A car, bus and bicycle cavalcade to the March 2 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is being planned. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Resort at Coolum Beach on the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane.
BY MONICA MOOREHEAD A legal appeal on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther activist who was framed for murder, was filed for the third time with the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court on January 9. The appeal asks that the Supreme
ADELAIDE — One of the key policies for the Socialist Alliance in campaign for the February 9 South Australian election is refugee rights. Green Left Weekly's JO ELLIS spoke to TOM BERTULEIT, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Adelaide.
After organising Australia-wide emergency 24-hour hunger strikes in solidarity with protesting refugees between January 24-27, Resistance is calling on more young people to do the same. "Philip Ruddock claims that hunger striking indicates

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