SYDNEY — On August 22, a gay couple was removed by police from the Sydney offices of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) after insisting that their legal same-sex marriage entered into overseas be counted in this year's census. ABS census
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MELBOURNE — Residents of the western suburb of Broadmeadows are celebrating a small victory after the Howard government announced in its 2006 budget that it had decided to scrap the construction of a $120 million, 500-bed immigration detention
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The fully sovereign Iraqi government "Earlier Wednesday, Iraqi justice ministry officials said they would release scientist Rihab Rashid Taha on bail because she was no longer a threat to national security. 'I was told by my minister that she would
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Bougainville Tent Embassy CANBERRA — Medicines donated by organisations, doctors and hospitals were delivered to the Bougainville Tent Embassy in front of Parliament House here on November 4. Alan Coe, representing the Victorian Aboriginal
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Guantanamo Bay lawyer praises Green Left Weekly SYDNEY — At the first event of its kind in the Bankstown area, 150 people packed out the Bankstown Senior Citizens Centre on June 19 for a Socialist Alliance and Green Left Weekly fundraising
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Michaela Stubbs, Melbourne On August 30, anti-nuclear campaigners staged protest actions at the offices of engineering company Parsons Brinckerhoff as part of a national day of protest against the federal government's plan to set up a nuclear waste
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Marcus Pabian, Melbourne On September 22, the Socialist Alliance held an election launch at the Trades Hall for its nine Victorian federal election candidates. "Is Australia a free democracy? Not while Craig Johnston remains a political
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Iggy Kim, Sydney On June 10, more than 100 delegates to the NSW Trades and Labor Council unanimously passed a motion of support for the June 30 "Bring the troops home now" protest in Sydney, organised by the Stop the War Coalition. The motion was
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MELBOURNE — Lionel Bopage, the former general secretary of Sri Lanka's People's Liberation Front (JVP) party, told a September 5 meeting hosted by Australia-Asia Worker Links that hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankan workers had taken industrial
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SYDNEY — Three-hundred people, mostly of Sudanese background, marched on September 5, singing and chanting Peace, peace in Sudan" and "Down, down Janjaweed!" Hugh Rimington from Channel 9's Nightline called for governments to act through the
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World leader "Mental illnesses including anxiety disorders and depression are common and undertreated in many countries, both developed and developing, with the highest rate found in the United States." — June 2 Associated Press report on the
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MELBOURNE — On September 14, 200 people attended a forum at Melbourne University to hear Mamdouh Habib speak about his time in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. The forum was organised by Students Against War and Racism. Habib condemned the