BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH — Four hundred people marched through Perth city centre on March 2 demanding the closure of all refugee detention centres. Organised by a broad organising committee initiated by the Refugee Rights Action Network, the
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BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Construction workers have been poring over the sordid details emerging from the royal commission into the construction industry. No worker in the industry could have missed the sensational allegations by a supposed former
BY NICK FREDMAN
COOLUM — "Wouldn't it be fantastic if the police went over to the Hyatt and arrested the people who are the real criminals — who are responsible for injustice around the world?", human rights activist Ross Daniels asked the
BY JIM GREEN
Feigned concern for the environment has long been one of the arguments used by the far right to argue against immigration. But calls for zero population growth or reduced population levels, and for reduced or zero immigration, have
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Pilger film screened
DARWIN — Thirty people attended a screening of John Pilger's documentary film New Rulers of the World, which deals with the impact of the international financial institutions on the Third World.
The screening was organised
BY NORM DIXON
The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has intensified its violent campaign against the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in a desperate attempt to save President Robert Mugabe's hold on
BY PETER BOYLE
The decision of the Sydney Palm Sunday 2002 peace rally organising committee to exclude participation by members of the Democratic Socialist Party has provoked widespread protest, including from the NSW Greens.
Dave Bell, secretary
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN The NT Labor government's zero tolerance policies towards
illicit drug users look set to be harsher than those of the former Country
Liberal Party (CLP) government.
On February 21, the government announced its
The solution to airline crisis
The February 27 collapse of the Tesna bid from millionaires Lindsay Fox
and Solomon Lew for Ansett will almost certainly mark the final end of
that airline. As a result, Australians can look forward to
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — Feminist organisations and individuals in the ACT have gathered under the banner "Options for Women" to campaign for women's right to choose abortion. This challenges the renewed offensive by the anti-choice Right to
BY ALISON DELLIT
On October 7, a fishing boat overloaded with desperate asylum seekers encountered the HMAS Adelaide north of Christmas Island. The warship fired warning shots to stop the boat from moving into Australian waters. Frightened by the
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