Students protest against Nelson
PERTH Around 100 students rallied outside a meeting to discuss federal minister for education Brendan Nelson's proposed changes to higher education. The meeting on August 20 was billed as a "public
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BY ALISON DELLIT
SYDNEY In another example of rampant racism in Sydney's west, female students at Noor Al Houda Islamic College have had a booking cancelled by the Auburn Swim Centre, after a racist campaign by local talk-back radio hosts to
BY LEE SUSTAR
US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill caused a stir and a financial panic when he declared that any money loaned to Brazil by the International Monetary Fund would end up in "Swiss bank accounts". He should have looked a
JOHANNESBURG On August 17, about 100 members of the Soldiers Forum
(SF), an affiliate of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), were arrested
and thrown into jail, where they still remain, for no other reason than
the fact that they wanted to
BY KATIE NEVILLE
& ADAM BOTTOMLEY
MELBOURNE Sydney Afghan temporary protection visa holder Riz Wakil
spoke to an audience of 120 people at an August 14 campus meeting organised
by the La Trobe University Refugee Action Collective.
BY SUE BOLTON
"We're not going to have a situation where someone can be attacked because of internal [union] political differences. The printing division [of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Victorian branch] will not stand for it",
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
The August 8 High Court decision that the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) had denied two applicants "natural justice" when its members lied about having studied all the material the applicants had submitted with their initial
No Toxic Dump
By Paul Strangio
Pluto Press Australia, 2001
$24.95 (pb)
REVIEWED BY BEN COURTICE
Paul Strangio introduces No Toxic Dump by comparing the two
buzzwords globalisation and community. While the revival of community
BY ALFREDO CASTRO
BOGOTA US under-secretary of state for political affairs Marc Grossman
led a delegation of senior US political and military leaders to Colombia
to hold talks with the government of newly elected President Ivaro Uribe
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE "Today, I want to tell you what it is like to be a refugee in Australia. I want to tell you what it is like to flee war and repression and only find more oppression. I am no longer in a detention centre, but now it
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY A "No War on Iraq" coalition was founded at a meeting on August 22 attended by representatives of the Greens, the Socialist Alliance, the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, as well as the National Union of Students, Labor
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