BY SARAH STEPHEN
The government is responsible for institutional child abuse, according
to a May report by two Melbourne organisations the Catholic Commission
for Justice Development and Peace (CCJDP) and the Western Young People's
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June 23 has been chosen as a national day of action for refugees,
a protest against the Australian government's inhumane policy of mandatory
detention [of asylum seekers]. We demand that the detention camps be closed,
and that refugees be
BY PIP HINMAN
Centacare, a religious welfare group which met with the United Nations teams inspecting South Australia's Woomera detention centre on May 30, said the teams were shocked at what they saw. Dale West from Centacare told the ABC that
REVIEW BY IGGY KIM
Spinning Into ButterWritten by Rebecca GilmanDirected by Adam CookEnsemble Theatre, SydneyMay 17-June 29
US playwright Rebecca Gilman's feted work, Spinning Into Butter, is an unabashed self-examination of racial prejudice in
BY JOE CRAIG
DUBLIN In late March, Sinn Fein launched its campaign for the May
17 Irish general election with a rally in Dublin's Gresham Hotel, at the
same time as the Irish Labour Party was holding its conference.
While Sinn Fein was keen
[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing
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A few months ago a group of friends at Fort Street High School were painting a banner and talking, they decided to convince their fellow students of the injustice of government policy towards refugees and to mobilise them to change it. Year 12
[On May 31, Greens Senator Bob Brown told ABC radio that he would consider
helping the government to sell the remaining third of Telstra if the government
was prepared to end old growth logging. Later that day, a press statement
from Brown's
BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
Maybe there is a god. Five years ago, the Fox network introduced Ally McBeal — a show focused on the wacky antics of the self-absorbed Harvard law graduate and her coworkers at a high-powered Boston law firm.
TV audiences
Sorry Day
BRISBANE Around 2000 people walked across the Goodwill Bridge to a festival
in Musgrave Park to mark National Sorry Day 2002 on May 26, condemning
past governments forcible removal of Indigenous children from their
BY NORM DIXON
The United States is tacitly backing many of Afghanistan's brutal
and reactionary warlords as they divide up the country among themselves.
Many of the same warlords committed unspeakable atrocities during the devastating
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