BY SARAH STEPHEN
Hundreds of refugee-rights campaigners will converge on Baxter detention centre from all over Australia on the Easter weekend to focus the national spotlight on the horrors of mandatory detention.
There is disconetent among local
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BY ERIN KILLION
Jane Keogh is a refugee-rights activist in the Canberra Refugee Action Committee. After visiting Baxter detention center in January, she spoke to Green Left Weekly about the conditions in the centre.
Keogh met 41 people in the
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — On April 8, the County Court was told that all matters relating to the Skilled Engineering and Johnson Tiles cases between the prosecution and all of the 15 unionists except Craig Johnston had been settled.
The
BY
JOHN PILGER
LONDON, April 10 A BBC television producer, moments before he was
wounded by a US fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with friendly fire,
spoke to his mother on a satellite phone. Holding the phone over his head
so
BY ALISON
DELLIT
More than 30,000 people joined Palm Sunday marches for peace on April
13.
The largest marches were the 15,000-strong protest in Sydney and a 10,000-strong
protest in Melbourne. In Adelaide, 3000 marched, 1500 in Brisbane,
BY PAMELA CURR
This could also be titled "What every man woman and child can be subjected to in the detention camps under the migration act". Read it, and then ask yourself how you would feel if, in order to visit a friend in another detention
BY
DOUG LORIMER
CANBERRA The head of the Palestinian Authority delegation to Australia,
Ali Kazak, issued a statement on April 6 criticising Australian and other
Western media for their uncritical reporting and interviewing of Australian,
In Shifting Sands: the Truth About UNSCOM and the Disarming of IraqWritten and directed by Scott RitterNow showing at: the Valhalla, Sydney (phone 9552 2456 for session details); the Nova, Melbourne (9347 2573); and the Schonell Twin, Brisbane (3377
BY ALLEN MYERS
PHNOM PENH — The Not In Our Name movement has been holding weekly gatherings here to express opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq. Two events have provided additional opportunities for opponents of the war to make themselves
BY BARRY SHEPPARD
OAKLAND, California — Police in full riot gear attacked a peaceful anti-war picket line at the docks here on April 7. The cops shot protesters and wharfies, who were nearby, with 2.5-centimetre diameter wooden dowels that left
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