BY NICK MARTIN
CANBERRA — Labor for Refugees ACT was formed immediately after the 2001 federal election to give form and an organising avenue to those seeking a change in policy.
Meeting at the ACT Trades and Labour Council, the group has
487
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY More than 8000 people rallied in Sydney's Town Hall Square
on April 6 to demand an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Protesters carrying placards, banners and Palestinian flags poured out
of the square
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — On April 4, immigration minister Philip Ruddock named the Meeandah Army Stores site at Pinkenba as the preferred site for a new 200-bed refugee prison.
Although he initially claimed the new site would only house
BY MANOJ ABEY
SYDNEY — In the wake of the September 11 World Trade Center bombings, the federal Coalition government announced that it would introduce a spate of new "security measures" to deal with the threat of terrorism in Australia and
Sexism and anorexia
I want to be thin. I want my cheeks to sink and my bones to stick out.
I want my skin to sit over my bones like cling-wrap on clay, mimicking
every shape. I want to be thinnest... And I want it now.
I wrote
BY SEAN VICKERY, GABRIELLE YATES & EMA CORRO
The events at Woomera during the Easter weekend have inspired refugees' rights protests across Australia. In Brisbane 40 protesters gathered on the morning of March 30 outside the immigration department
BY DICK NICHOLS
BOLOGNA What did it take to get up to 3 million people
of all ages, from widely different social backgrounds and from every
corner of the country to the March 23 demonstration in Rome against billionaire
media
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In a March 30 media conference condemning protesters at Woomera detention centre, immigration minister Philip Ruddock asserted: "The bulk of the detention population in Australia today are not refugees", instead calling them
BY MAX LANE
The following speech was the opening presentation to the final plenary session of the Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference held in Sydney, March 29-April 1. Max Lane is a member of the national executive of the Democratic
BY VITTORIO LONGHI
ROME — Italy is getting ready for a massive general strike, the first for 20 years, against Silvio Berlusconi government's labour law "reform". On April 16, at least 11 million workers will strike.
This general strike call
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