US delegates dropped a bombshell at the Asian and Pacific Population Conference in late October. They announced that the US would withdraw its support for the"action plan" devised at the 1994 United Nations Population and Development Conference in
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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 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
BY EVA CHENG
"America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortages since the oil embargoes of the 1970s", proclaimed US vice president Dick Cheney's May 2001 national energy policy report to President George Bush.
The Cheney report
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — "On November 30, a vote for the Socialist Alliance is the clearest possible vote against war and racism", said Arun Pradhan, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Melbourne.
Pradhan, who has been an
NSW Premier Bob Carr's enthusiasm for vilifying protesters, police patrols with sniffer dogs and cooperating with Australia's secret police service is not an aberration for the ALP. Federal Labor is also bending over backwards to increase police
Just Another Little Murder: A Brother's Pursuit of JusticeBy Phil ClearyAllen and Unwin, 2002$29.95
REVIEW BY ERIN CAMERON
The murder of Vicki Cleary in 1987 shook her family to the core, but what was to devastate them even more was the outcome
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN I'm here because I don't like injustice, and I don't like
being ashamed of my country, declared Jack, one of the 250 people who
attended a public meeting in support of the East Timorese asylum seekers
on
SYDNEY — On November 11, a book was launched in the outer Sydney suburb of Blacktown. It coincided with the 17th anniversary of the killing by police of 16-year-old Angelo Tsakos.
The book, A Mother's Story, details the agony of those 17 years
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
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