BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PORT HEDLAND,
WA Despite intense police attention, on July 18 more than 100 protesters
marched on the Port Hedland immigration detention centre and remained for
an all-night protest vigil. For more than 12 hours,
502
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA On July 22, several political parties organised a seminar
to discuss the contemporary implications of the July 27, 1996, attack by
pro-Suharto thugs on the headquarters of the Indonesian Democratic Party
(PDI). During
BY DALE T. McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — "SACP in clash with ANC" and "ANC warned not to follow path of ZANU-PF" were some of the headlines that have graced the pages of South African newspapers following the latest political spat between the ruling
BY KATE CLUGSTON
BATHURST — On July 30, Charles Sturt University (CSU) students protesting the proposed cutbacks to the Communications school will have taken action for 50 continuous days. The "Out of Order" campaign has now held the second
BY PETER BOYLE
As the once seemingly ever-exuberant US stock market plunges (Wall Street stocks have lost US$7 trillion in value since March 2000) and more reports of big business scandals dominate the headlines, establishment economic commentators
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — A forum convened on July 25 by the RMIT branch of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) expressed vehement opposition to the university's proposal to tender for the delivery of "educational and
GLW celebrates
BRISBANE — More than 100 people attended the Green Left Weekly 500th issue celebration dinner at the Ukranian Hall on July 20, which raised $1500 to help GLW keep producing.
Congratulations to GLW were given by: Sam Watson,
Regan (USA); Peter Stone (Africa); Penny Tweedie (Australia, East Timor, Bangladesh); Anastasia Vrachnos (Indonesia); and Paul Weinberg (Africa), 21 Publishing Ltd ">
Reporting the World: John Pilger's great eyewitness photographers
Capturing
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — One-hundred-and-twenty refugees' rights activists and supporters gathered on July 23 for a public forum organised by Amnesty International, which indicated the breadth of the refugees' rights movement.
The meeting
BY SUE BOLTON
SYDNEY — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national conference, held July 21-25 at Sydney's plush Parkroyal Hotel, adopted a series of rule changes which strip decision-making power from state branches and shift it to the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) should reverse its newly announced policy of promoting the voluntary repatriation of refugees to Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on July 23.
The
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — On July 25, police launched an extremely brutal attack on a peaceful student protest. Thirty-five students were assaulted with batons and squirted with pepper spray.
The students had gathered at Curtin University to
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