BY SIMON BUTLER
Afghan temporary protection visa holder and refugees' rights activist
Riz Wakil is embarking on a whirlwind speaking tour on university campuses
along the east coast.
Wakil, who is an activist in Free the Refugees
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BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY August 6 was the 12th anniversary of the imposition of sanctions
on Iraq by the United States. To mark the day and demand that the sanctions
be lifted unconditionally, a 24-hour picket was staged outside the US
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE Centrelink, the federal government's social payment delivery
agency, is demanding that its staff agree to work seven days a week at
standard pay. Workers would be rostered as required by management, rather
than
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
SYDNEY In NSW in the 2001 federal election the swing against the
ALP was twice the national average. Federal Labor's posture as pro-worker
and a defender of public services such as schools and hospitals could not
hold
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US President George Bush is preparing for a new war on Iraq using the pretext that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is threatening the world with "weapons of mass
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The suffering of ordinary Palestinians inflicted by the Israeli occupation since September 2000 extends beyond the almost 1700 killed and the more than 20,000 injured by the Israeli army and paramilitary "settlers".
A new report
Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and
Masculinity in Twentieth-Century AmericaBy Stephen H. NorwoodUniversity of North Carolina Press/Chapel Hill, 2002328 pp, $50 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
On 26 May, 1937, United Automobile Workers
BY ALLEN MYERS
PHNOM PENH — A showing of John Pilger's documentary film The New Rulers of the World drew a crowd of more than 200 people on the evening of July 24.
The showing, sponsored by the Foreign Journalists Club of Cambodia, was
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — Refugees' rights activists at the University of Western Australia pledged to turn their campus into a refugee safe haven at the launch of the campaign on August 8. The campaign is being organised by the UWA Refugee
BY BOB BURTON
The Australian government has defended its embassy officials in Jakarta who lobbied Indonesian security forces and officials to deal with "illegal miners" at an Australian-owned mine. In three separate incidents after the lobbying
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA The ACT conference of the Australian Labor Party on July 26 voted to end the ALP's support for mandatory detention of asylum seekers. A number of motions initiated by the Labor for Refugees group were passed
BY KERRIE BARRON
CANBERRA A library display highlighting the plight of asylum seekers
was removed on August 9 after it prompted a violent response.
The Refugee Action Collective (RAC) was asked to pack up its display
because library
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