BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG At a student general meeting on September 17, Wollongong
University students and staff voted overwhelmingly to declare their campus
a refugee safe haven and to donate money to escaped refugees.
Despite
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BY ALISON DELLIT
"We have allies and Australia is an ally. And I think it's good to always recognise the contributions that allies make and we've had no greater contribution [to the War on Terror] from anywhere in the world than the contribution
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE When the Cross-Campus Women's Collective heard that the
male magazine FHM was putting on a Miss University competition
at the Tivoli Theatre in Fortitude Valley on September 17, it called for
a protest of the
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
Three weeks after the fatal shooting of two Americans and an Indonesian from the Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia's eastern-most province of West Papua, the identity of the perpetrators is still unclear.
Indonesian
BY
MAX LANE
MANILA More than 450 delegates representing more than 100,000 workers
gathered in Baguio City on September 14-15 to plan out their campaign of
resistance to the neo-liberal globalisation offensive hitting Filipino
workers.
BY GABRIEL MOLINA
HAVANA A dispatch from the EFE news agency in July confirmed that a new method of producing the UN report on human development has resulted in Cuba being placed "among the world's least democratic countries, comparable with
BY SIMON TAYLER
SYDNEY Every Sunday night, Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) program includes The Palestine Report, a segment on the conflict in Palestine. The report presents viewers with a point of view that the mainstream media
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY At the first such day-long forum in Sydney for years, 50
activists spent September 15 analysing and debating the many facets of
the backlash against feminism that has been gathering momentum in Australia,
and
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART Three hundred people participated in a rally demanding No
war on Iraq on September 21. The rally was organised by Peace Coalition,
which met for the first time on September 15.
Speakers at the rally included
BY IGGY KIM
Of the 10,149,542 Brazilians who participated in a week-long unofficial
referendum on the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), 9,979,964
(98.33%) voted against Brazil joining the US-dominated economic bloc.
The
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