Pentagon failed to get export permit
"Forced nudity, hooding and the use of dogs all were interrogation techniques approved for use in Guantanamo Bay prison — but, top Bush administration lawyers insisted this week, never meant to be applied in
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Tony Iltis, Melbourne Peace activist and socialist David Glanz has received messages of solidarity from the National Tertiary Education Union, the RMIT Student Union and various left activists following a slanderous attack on him in the August 4
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Graham Matthews, Sydney Up to 80 people rallied and marched against racism in Auburn on June 3, in a community action against the federal and state governments' attacks on the Arab and Muslim communities. With chants of "Migrants are welcome,
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Free enterprise "Oil refineries, power plants and other large industrial operations in California typically pay fines of a few thousand dollars for exceeding air pollution standards, not enough to deter them from repeated violations." — Los
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SYDNEY — Three-thousand people rallied for World Refugee Day in Hyde Park on June 20. They called for the abolition of temporary protection visas and an to end mandatory detention, including the closure of off-shore refugee camps. Among the many
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SYDNEY — On August 18, construction union (CFMEU) officials visited the site of the multi-million dollar home being constructed by federal Coalition MP Jackie Kelly and her husband on the Nepean River, following a report in the August 12 Daily
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A recently published Attorney-General's department report shows that Australians are 24 times more likely to have their phones tapped than people living in the United States. The report on the use of the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979
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2 Free Craig Johnston campaign gains support SYDNEY — The campaign to free jailed Victorian union militant Craig Johnston has achieved its first union support in NSW, with the adoption of motions of support by three local branches of the NSW
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John Tognolini, Sydney Tens of thousands of teachers rallied outside the NSW parliament on May 27 to protest Labor Premier Bob Carr's interference in the public school teachers' pay case before the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC). The
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Andrew Martin, Brisbane On August 16, Australian Provincial Newspapers (APN), Australia's largest regional newspaper publisher, announced that it will close the Queensland Times print facility in Ipswich and move the printing of the daily to Yandina
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MELBOURNE — In the early hours of May 11, police attacked 150 Indigenous activists and their supporters as they removed embers from the "sacred flame" that had been burning in the Kings Domain park in central Melbourne since the Camp Sovereignty
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2 'Make refugee rights a political issue' BRISBANE — "The best thing we can do to help the refugees is to make refugee rights a key political issue", Aladdin Sisalem, the last asylum seeker to be held on Manus Island, told a public meeting of