On April 29, Iranian refugee Ardeshir Gholipour was released from the Baxter detention centre after more than five years in detention. His release came after the release of some 30 Iranian and Afghan refugees during April, most of whom had spent
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Kim Bullimore
More than 1200 Palestinians, Israelis and international activists peacefully demonstrated on April 28 in the West Bank village of Bili'in against the Israeli state's continued construction of the illegal Apartheid Wall.
The wall
Sam Wainwright, Fremantle
On May 1, 300 maritime workers, their families and other unionists crammed into the North Fremantle office of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) for a "sausage-sizzle debate" on how to fight the federal government's
Rodney Croome
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
In contemporary Australia, the answer to Groucho Marx's famous quip is an ever increasing number of same-sex couples. Dozens of Australian same-sex
SYDNEY — The final Gaywaves program went to air on April 14 but its team of volunteers has vowed to fight 2SER's decision to axe it. Presenter Tim Govers criticised the station's decision to cancel the long-running gay and lesbian show, which
Norman Solomon
Years from now, when historians look back at agenda-building for a missile attack on Iran, they should closely examine a story that took up the USA's most coveted space for media spin — the upper right corner of the New York Times'
Pip Hinman
Anti-war groups across Australia responded quickly to the news that US-based Australian contractor Douglas Wood had been taken hostage in Iraq. Snap protests were held in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in the first week of May to urge his
Vannessa Hearman
On April 29, Greens Senator Kerry Nettle met with local East Timorese in Darwin and condemned the "resource-sharing" deal offered to the Timorese by the federal Coalition government as "manifestly unfair". She said that the deal
The Turkish government has handed over 140,000 pages of documentation from the Ottoman era to the Palestinian Authority. The documents from the period between 1500 and 1914 include archives documenting Palestinian land ownership in the West Bank,
The number of inmates in US jails jumped from 320,000 in 1980 to 2 million in 2000.
One out of every 142 people in the US is behind bars.
There were 13.6 million arrests in 2003.
An average of US$7 billion a year for the past 10 years was spent
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