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    UN award for Tampa seafarers Wilhelmsen Line and the crew of the MV Tampa have jointly won a $100,000 award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for rescue on the high seas. The Tampa's crew and owner were given the award for

  • Christmas Island to become Australia's gulag

    SYDNEY — The federal government's "Pacific solution" is likely to be become the "Christmas Island solution" when a 1200-bed detention centre is finished there in March 2003, Anne Coombs, from Rural Australians for Refugees (RAR),

  • Defiant nurses stand ground

    BY REBECCA MECKELBURG & MARCEL CAMERON BRISBANE — Despite the state ALP government's attempts to undermine the Queensland Nurses Union's (QNU) stop-work rally at Parliament House on July 12, more than 3000 angry public and private sector nurses

  • Teachers, students stop school closures

    SYDNEY — The tenacity and determination of teachers, students and other members of the local community has forced the overturning of former NSW education minister John Aquilina's decision to close Dulwich and Marrickville high

  • RMIT bids for detention centre education

    MELBOURNE — On July 10, news broke that RMIT University has joined private prison operator Group 4 Falck to tender for the delivery of "educational and recreational sporting activities" to asylum seekers in Australian detention

  • Pickets pressure Dayson bosses

    SYDNEY — Workers at Dayson's compressor re-manufacturing plant in Rydalmere have expressed gratitude to supporters who have been joining them on picket lines at the company's gates. The dispute, over the sacking of seven

  • Loose cannons

    Could have been the wedding cake "We are aware of reports of civilian casualties, but don't know if casualties were caused as a result of the bomb." &#151 Pentagon spokesperson Lieutenant Comm- ander Jeff Davis, commenting on the US military's July

  • 'It is not a labour government'

    BRISBANE — Green Left Weekly's ROBYN MARSHALL spoke to several nurses at the Royal Brisbane Hospital on July 5 about the dispute. “I know that nurses from RBH, from the Royal Women's Hospital and other workplaces have lots of determination to

  • DOCS strike for more staff

    SYDNEY &#151 Fed up with being asked to perform miracles on the smell of an oily rag, staff at the Department of Community Services (DOCS) have taken industrial action to secure the extra staff and resources needed to protect

  • Great Lakes Rural Australians for Refugees formed

    BY PERRY BROWN & KATHY NEWNAM FORSTER &#151 "This meeting is very encouraging", began Pat Thompson, in her address to the inaugural meeting of the Great Lakes Rural Australians for Refugees group, held in Forster on June 29. Thompson, one of the

  • Commission puts conditions on Southwood

    HOBART &#151 The controversial Southwood woodchip mill proposal was approved by Tasmania's Resource Planning and Development Commission on July 3. Despite onerous conditions imposed by the commission, Labor Premier Jim Bacon's

  • Socialist Alliance launches election campaign

    HOBART — More than 50 people participated in the state-wide launch of the Socialist Alliance election campaign on the Salamanca Lawns on July 6. The alliance's first ever television advertisement premiered at the event. It will be shown on