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BY SARAH STEPHEN In August, Afghan refugees in Australia started receiving letters from the immigration department demanding they leave the country. It seems the Australian government intends to deport all Afghan asylum seekers holding temporary
BY DAVID SCRIMGEOUR Whereas, in years gone past, our prime minister was called "Honest John" Howard by the media, it is now clear to us all what an inveterate liar he is. He lied to us about the GST, he lied to us about the "children overboard"
BY ALEX MILNE Environment groups have welcomed mining company Energy Resources of Australia's commencement of rehabilitation work at the Jabiluka uranium mine, an enclave within the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory. "This is a huge
BY URI AVNERY It was a putsch. It was carried out by Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, his ministers and the army top brass. It is no secret that the military party (the only really functioning party in Israel) objected to the hudna [the
BY EVA CHENG The last legal barrier for the release of GM food crops in Australia was breached on July 28, when the federal government approved the commercial release of GM canola by Bayer CropScience corporation. The first-ever approval of the
BY ROBYN MARSHALL CARACAS — Dr Carolus Wimmer is in no doubt that a revolutionary process is underway in Venezuela. "Really it's a process of social and economic transformation, which I defend as, definitely, a revolutionary process", he told
BY HYOSU KANG SEOUL — On August 27, police served a search and seizure warrant on the headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions to arrest 16 KCTU leaders. A large detachment of police surrounded the office, where 200 unionists had
BY BUSTER SOUTHERLEY Our cinema screens are monopolised by Hollywood spectaculars made with budgets equivalent to the annual GDPs of small Third World countries. Yet there are still films being made that concern themselves with themes other than
BY ALISON DELLIT In sentencing One Nation founders Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge to three years' imprisonment, Queensland judge Patsy Wood told the court that the case had "substantially damaged" Hanson's political career. If only she was
BY CHRISTANO KERRILA When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began his six-year second term in 2000, his party only controlled the executive and the parliamentary arms of government. The Venezuelan oligarchy continues to control some regional and
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN MELBOURNE — Zito da Costa, president of the East Timor Confederation of Trade Unions (Konfederasaun Sindikatu Timor Leste — KSTL), one of several trade union groupings in East Timor, addressed a small gathering at Trades
BY KRIS KOCSIS MELBOURNE — As the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) strike and picket at Smorgon Steel passes the six-month mark, the union faces another challenge as the company attempts to further divide unions on the job. Twenty-five