Nick Everett
On May 10, a Kuala Lumpur magistrate found Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) central committee member V. Selvam not guilty of rioting after being arrested on August 17, 1995. The victory ends a nine-year political battle.
When he was
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Julie Sprigg, Perth
The Port Hedland Immigration Reception and Processing Centre is set to be mothballed by the end of June. All 52 detainees will be moved to South Australia's Baxter detention centre.
Thirty-three detainees were moved in two
The US Socialist Worker's Gina Sartori, Conor Morey-Barrett and Elizabeth Schulte report on the victory for gay marriage in Massachusetts.
Thousands of people gathered at city halls across Massachusetts on May 17 as the state took its place in the
The Women of LockerbieBy Deborah BrevoortNIDAParade Studio, Kensington, Sydneyuntil June 6
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
On December 21, 1988, a bomb exploded on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all passengers and crew, and 13
Pip Hinman
One of the most important aspects of the leaking of pictures of tortured Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison is that they are shifting mass attitudes in the West to the war in a particularly potent way.
The graphic pictures showing
SYDNEY — On May 20, "Public Education Day", around 60 teachers and supporters of public education rallied outside federal education minister Brendan Nelson's office in Lindfield. The rally, organised by the Middle Harbour Teachers Association of
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
May 21 marked a victory for militant unionism. While many unionists were expecting former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch secretary Craig Johnston to be imprisoned after he had pleaded guilty to
Jack Smit
Medical care in detention centres is still substandard, and is not at all confined to the past, contrary to former immigration minister Philip Ruddock's allegations on ABC's AM program on May 6.
Project SafeCom has been able to confirm
Anthony Defraine & Tom Flanagan, Lismore
Students and staff held a spirited protest outside the Southern Cross University council meeting on May 21.
The council was initially expected to consider increasing HECS charges for 2005. Although a
Robyn Marshall, Caracas
On the morning of May 9, the government television channel announced that 55 Colombian paramilitaries had been captured by Venezuelan national investigative police, DISIP, at a farm in Baruta, a municipality in southeastern
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