BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — Relatives of Shahraz Kayani, who died as a result of setting himself alight on the Parliament House forecourt on April 2, 2001, have been prevented from coming to Australia on the anniversary of his death. On May 27,
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BY WILL WILLIAMS
WOLLONGONG — "Seventy-nine-year-old great-grandfather, tribal initiate, retired coal-miner, unabashed socialist and enduring activist", was how the May 7 Illawarra Mercury described Fred Moore after the Wollongong Trade Union
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — "If it wasn't for the Tampa, we'd have a Labor government today", former NSW premier Neville Wran told a May 23 Labor for Refugees forum which heard calls for an end to the government's present policy towards asylum seekers.
BY SARAH STEPHEN
DILI May 19 marked the turning point of a historic period of transition
for the East Timorese people. It was the last day of operation for the
UN Transitional Administration of East Timor (UNTAET), bringing to a close
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — "The workers united will never be defeated", 300 unionists chanted, led by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary John Maitland, on May 22. The event was a public meeting, titled "They
'Peace for the world - pretzels for Bush'
A crowd of 50,000-70,000 rallied on May 21 in Berlin against George
Bush's phony war on terror, preparing to give the US president a not
so much warm as heated welcome to the city when he arrived
BY CLAYTON MCDONALD, TONY ILTIS & SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
MELBOURNE — "We have lost hope in the Australian government", said refugee Fahim Fayyazi, a member of Afghanistan's Hazara minority of the attitudes of his fellow asylum seekers. "Our only
BY JACKIE LYNCH
MELBOURNE — A joint meeting to explore the links between unionists and environmentalists was held on May 22. Jack Mundey, former NSW Builders Labourers Federation leader and environmental activist, addressed 70 people who were
BY EVA CHENG
The March massacre of more than 2000 Muslims in Gujarat was not a spontaneous outburst of religious anger, but a cold-blooded, anti-Muslim pogrom masterminded by India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Dipankar Bhattacharya,
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