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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 Edward Rutkinn

MELBOURNE — After 27 years of working for their country's freedom, the East Timorese community in Melbourne and their Australian supporters celebrated their newly-won independence on May 20.

Collingwood Town Hall was packed with some 2000 people, who watched a replay of the independence celebrations in Dili on a giant video screen and listened to musical performances, speeches and an official ceremony.

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