BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY Police will be able to stop and search people without warrants
after the NSW ALP cabinet approved new anti-terror laws in November.
The laws are now being rushed through state parliament.
Among other things, NSW
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BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY The NSW state government and corporate media's blitz in
the weeks leading up to the World Trade Organisation mini-ministerial meeting,
which claimed violent protesters and society's dregs were intent on
arson
BY JOHN PILGER
"What passing bells for these who die as cattle?", asked the great WWI poet Wilfred Owen. His famous line might have been written for those who perish in today's secret wars and terrorist outrages.
Owen's generation never used the
Free enterprise
"Collectible cards depicting portraits of victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center are due to go on sale next month, leading to accusations their manufacturer is trading on tragedy." — Daily Telegraph,
BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
The Prime Minister John Howard initially refused to rule out support for a call to ban Muslim women from wearing certain religious dress in public. The call was made by Fred Nile, a Christian fundamentalist MP in the NSW
BY STEPHEN BENNETTS
FLORENCE Non ho mai visto Firenze cosi bella. Che bello vederla
cosi piena di gente; di solito ci sono solo le bancarelle d'oro e le cartoline.
E che palle! (I've never seen Florence looking so beautiful. How
Over the past two months,
life in the Socialist Alliance has been stormy. The International Socialist
Organisation (ISO) threatened to disaffiliate if the Democratic Socialist
Party went ahead with a proposal to its December congress to convert
MELBOURNE Speak-outs against
a possible war on Iraq were held in three Melbourne suburbs on November
23. The Footscray protest heard from Socialist Alliance candidate for Footscray
Justine Kamprad, Shirley Winton from the Western Suburbs
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — "We are a mass movement, we need to look like one" is the idea behind a broadly supported initiative to hold a National People's Refugee Summit in early 2003.
The proposed summit, tentatively scheduled for February 1-2
Episodes directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Sean
Penn, Denis Tanovic, Mira Nair, Shohei Imamura, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine,
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Idrissa Ouedrago
Now showing at the Nova and Cinema Europa,
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — "Building rank-and-file unionism" was the topic of discussion at the first public meeting of the Trade Union Solidarity Committee, which was held on November 19 at Trades Hall. The committee was set up by the Socialist
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The ALP shut down its working party on refugee policy on November
12, after only two meetings. This is a substantial blow to Labor for Refugees,
which agreed to its members involvement in the working party in return
for a
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