BY NADEEM ANSARI & KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — At a January 31 public meeting, Lionel Bopage from Friends for Peace in Sri Lanka appealed to the new Sri Lankan government to begin peace negotiations with the Tamil population. Bopage recently
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Firmly inhuman "The approach I have taken in relation to these matters requires a degree of firmness, which sometimes people think demonstrates a lack of humanity. But I think your humanity has a greater potential to be evil than if you remain
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BY LUKE FOMIATTI & MELANIE SJOBERG SYDNEY This meeting to discuss war and globalisation occurs against the backdrop of US President George Bush's 'state of the nation' speech, anti-war activist Tara Povey told 60 people at Trades
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ROCKHAMPTON — The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) has spent the last week in unsuccessful negotiations with Consolidated Meat Group management in an attempt to reopen the Lakes Creek meatworks. CMG
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BRISBANE — The fight for refugees' rights was given a boost on January 31 when 50 people picketed a meeting attended by immigration minister Philip Ruddock at Brisbane's main immigration department offices. Organised in 24
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BY RICK MOLON & CHRIS ATKINSON DARWIN — "Refugees YES! Racism NO! Detention centres have got to GO!" echoed around the foyer of the luxury Novotel Atrium hotel on February 1. More than 80 refugee solidarity activists protested federal immigration
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DARWIN — Socialist Alliance's campaign for Lord Mayor of Darwin was launched on February 1 at a protest in support of refugees. The alliance will be running Ruth Ratcliffe in the March 16 poll. "The campaign is an excellent
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HOBART — Abortion access in southern Tasmania will resume after the January 18 announcement that a privately run clinic is to be established in Hobart city centre. Public hospital doctors withdrew abortion provision late last
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The Australia Indonesia Institute (AII) is advertised as a body promoting people-to-people relations between Australia and Indonesia. Its real role in defending the political status quo in Indonesia and Australia has been revealed by a
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BRISBANE — While preparations were going ahead for the official jingoistic parade to celebrate Australia Day, around 300 Murris and their supporters gathered on January 26 to mark decades of Aboriginal struggle for land and
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Got everything he wished for "But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." — George the Crusader, speaking on new year's eve. Bushonomics "The first condition to make sure that people can find work is to make sure our nation
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BRISBANE — Two-hundred and fifty people rallied in the Queen Street mall on January 25 to support the rights of refugees protesting inside Woomera detention centre. The rally, organised by the Brisbane Refugee Action Collective,