While the spotlight may have moved off refugee detention centres, the misery of asylum seekers there has worsened.
On November 18, six Iranian asylum seekers escaped from Woomera, the "hell-hole" of Australia's detention centres,
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Declaring its federal election campaign a solid success, the Socialist Alliance has decided to work in the coming months to strengthen union resistance to the Coalition government and to seek to improve red-green collaboration.
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Deaf man walking "I have not heard a word of criticism from anyone about the way Kim Beazley campaigned over the last five weeks." — ALP national secretary Gary Walsh. To inspire hope among the Liberals "Inspiring hope is often difficult, but
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SYDNEY — Following the success of its ground-breaking campaign in the federal election, the Socialist Alliance in NSW is setting its sights on the March 2003 state election and has launched a campaign to get electoral
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SYDNEY — If unions hope to really represent working people, they have to break into, regulate and organise the labour hire sector, militant union leader Craig Johnston told a gathering on November 13. Fresh from marching in an
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SYDNEY — A truly international flavour permeated the November 13 union-organised protest against corporate globalisation. Initiated by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) to coincide with the World Trade
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GRAFTON — In the first action against the US war in Afghanistan held in the Clarence Valley region of northern NSW, 100 people joined a high school walkout and rallied in Grafton on November 9. The organisers included local
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MELBOURNE - Young Arab women have hit out at the stereotypes of Islam and the racism they're subjected to. "As an Arab I feel that my race is feared, not trusted and not liked and this is growing. But if the myths being promoted
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MELBOURNE — "I got involved before the Tampa crisis", says singer Ross McLennan of Melbourne band Snout. "Turning refugees away was terrible — but locking them up, telling lies about them and inciting racism was enough for me to
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SYDNEY — Citing racist attacks on women perpetrated since September 11, feminists have called a rally and march to oppose war and racism on International Women's Day 2002. "With no real evidence the United States declared many
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'Die-in' highlights war casualties BRISBANE — Around 50 people gathered in the Queens Street Mall on November 16 for a "die-in" to show solidarity with the Afghan people killed by US bombs. Chalk lines were drawn around their bodies to
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CANBERRA — Left-wing public service unionists in the national capital have been stymied in their attempts to prevent a union restructure which would dissolve the ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union. The ACT