BY BRONWYN JENNINGS
GEELONG Successive Australian governments had shameful policies
towards refugees and now the Howard government is going to create more
by throwing its support behind George Bush's war on Iraq, Brigitte Ellery,
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BY JOHN TULLY
John Jocka Burns died on October 11 at the age of 93. Although
he avoided the limelight, Jocka was an indefatigable working-class agitator
all of his adult life. He participated in many of the political struggles
of the
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE Trade unions need to more actively support refugees' rights and expose their members to the truth about the plight of asylum seekers and the evils of Australia's refugee detention centres. This was the theme of a
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE An angry crowd of staff and students confronted Newcastle University vice-chancellor Roger Holmes on October 16 as he attempted to justify plans to close the Huxley Library and replace it with an electronic
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
On September 9, five suspected illegal-immigrant workers at the De Lorenzo ceramics factory in Sydney's west were detained following a raid by immigration department officials. The NSW branch of the construction & general division
BY NORM DIXON
Amiri Baraka — a famous African-American poet and political activist who, as LeRoi Jones, wrote the classic book Blues People in the 1960s — is under attack for a poem he wrote about the 9/11 attacks, titled "Somebody Blew Up
BY MAURICE FARRELL
SYDNEY Reporting on its 2002 readership survey, the October 10
Sydney Star Observer stated that the gay and lesbian market remains
buoyant, despite the difficulties faced this year by peak event-based community
BY DALE T. MCKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG Be afraid. Be very afraid. Lurking beneath the surface of an evidently otherwise contented and patriotic South African society, there lies a "new" enemy of the state and the people.
According to those in the
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY On October 14, a meeting of the Palm Sunday Committee agreed to establish a new coalition of Sydney anti-war groups to organise a "walk against the war" on November 30 around the slogans "No war on Iraq! No Australian
BY BELINDA SELKE
WOLLONGONG The Greens have wrested the federal seat of Cunningham from the ALP, following an historic vote in Saturday's by-election. Greens candidate Michael Organ won roughly 23% of the primary vote, while the ALP's Sharon
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