BY PIP HINMAN& SARAH STEPHEN
On June 23, the same day that 13,000 people took to the streets across Australia to oppose the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, detainees at the Woomera detention centre began a hunger strike. By June 24, 180-190
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Student conference to welcome refugees
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH The collective organising the July 7-13 Students and Sustainability
(S&S) conference, to be held at Murdoch University, has declared that
it will give sanctuary to
SOUTH AFRICA: Sacrificing
AIDS victims for corporate profits
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG During the last few days of June, at the same time
as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Congress of South African Trade
Unions
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Escape to Paradise
Directed by Nino Jacusso
With Duzgun Ayhan, Fidan Firat, Nurettin Yildiz and Walo Luond
Distributed by First Hand Films
Frontieres (Borders)
Directed by Mostefa Djadjam
With Lou
[The following remarks by Booker Prize winning author THOMAS KENEALLY
were read out to the June 23 World Refugee Week rally in Sydney.]
I am disappointed
I cannot be there today to add my voice to yours. Like you, I consider
the compulsory
AFGHANISTAN
Sham assembly installs warlord coalition
BY NORM DIXON
The much-hyped loya jirga or grand assembly was supposed
to be post-Taliban Afghanistan's first step towards the creation of a representative
democratic
The Game
I must tell you of my felony.
It is, that at every moment, I was falling away
from beauty.
In a woman's face I was the eternal coldness,
in her hands the unmaturing child
growing heavier, disturbing her spine
year
WA Socialist Alliance seeks registration
BY JANE ARMANASCO
PERTH After successful state registration campaigns in NSW and
Tasmania, the Western Australia Socialist Alliance has begun the task of
acquiring state electoral
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Howard government's Migration Legislation Amendment (Procedural
Fairness) Bill 2002 passed through the House of Representatives with the
support of the Labor Party on June 26 with very little publicity.
The new act
Big Sister?
Australia's Big Brother television show is unfortunately not
unique. In the last three years, 36 different versions of the show have
been aired around the world but while 50% of the contestants are always
women,
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