BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY — The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act, which was passed on June 26, has been used for the first time to arrest and question a person.
The man's name has not been
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
Having spearheaded the campaign of fear and hysteria against "boat-people" for the last five years, former immigration minister Philip Ruddock is again leading a charge of racism and fear — this time as attorney-general.
As one
BY SETH SANDRONSKY
SACRAMENTO — In President George Bush's USA, 122,000 people became temporary workers in the last nine months. Temporary workers are less likely to have a steady pay-check and health-care benefits than permanent workers.
Nine
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Three-hundred people gathered in Sydney, 150 in Canberra, and fifty in both Melbourne and Brisbane on November 9, and 30 in Perth on November 8, as part of an international day of against the apartheid wall being built by Israel. Pictured is the
BY JANE BECKMANN
NEWCASTLE — Newcastle's Save Our Rail campaign has called a protest for November 19 outside NSW Parliament House in Sydney. The group is protesting the proposal to close rail services between Broadmeadow station and Newcastle
300 rally for Medicare
MELBOURNE — On November 7, a lunchtime rally protested the cuts to Medicare and called for the public health care system to be extended.
The speakers included Dr Tim Woodruff; Sharan Burrow, the president of the
On November 4, just days after a Ecuador court began hearing a lawsuit against ChevronTexaco for damages caused in the Amazon rainforest since the 1970s, Angel Shingre, a well-known peasant leader and human rights campaigner, was assassinated in the
David Spratt, an organiser for the Victorian Peace Network, wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald's Webdiary, run by Margo Kingston, on October 21. Describing opposition leader Simon Crean as "dead in the water", he explained that he had resigned from
The federal Coalition government is clearly using the hysteria around the deportation of Willie Brigitte for alleged "terrorist" activities and the arrival of a small boatload of asylum seekers at Melville Island to prepare the most favourable terms
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