Due to a sub-editing error, the sentence in the article Refugee kept
eight months in solitary by Ben Collins (GLW #443) read: While the agreement
between the government and Australasian Correctional Management, which
runs the centre,
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BY NORM DIXON
An Indian Fijian rights group in Suva is seeking compensation from the Indian, Australian and British governments, reported the Times of India on April 3. The Peoples' Organisation for Indo-Fijian Rights and Land Resolution said these
BY SEAN HEALY
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." — Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995.
"M1 can be as big as it likes", someone recently said to me, "but isn't opposing
BY LINDA WALDRON
LAHORE — More than 200 activists of the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) activists, members of other opposition parties, community activists and unionists packed the Lahore Press Club here on April 2 to welcome LPP general secretary
His Majesty's ship Leopard forced the [USS] Chesapeake
to surrender off the Virginia Capes in 1807, and sullied American national
honor by impressing American men ... two of the four impressed sailors
were men of color. White dominated
SYDNEY — About 120 Palestinians and their supporters rallied at the Sydney Town Hall on April 7 as part of the International Day of Action for the Refugees' Right of Return. The rally heard from Susan Nasser about the trauma faced by the people in
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Forestry Tasmania's planned Southwood Resources woodchip mill in the Huon valley is under intense pressure from increased public opposition. This was reflected most strongly in a rally here of thousands of people on
BY EVA CHENG
News of what appear to be spontaneous rebellions by workers against attacks on their social rights and living standards resulting from the Chinese Communist Party bureaucracy's drive to restore capitalism continue to seep out of
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — As political relations between the leaderships of South Korea and North Korea thaw, the generals and bureaucrats around North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il are not yet united on a clear, single objective. They are sure of
BY SEAN HEALY
Thousands of Turkish workers filled the streets of the country's major cities on March 31 to protest against the terms of a "bailout" package agreed between the country's government and the International Monetary Fund.
Demonstrators
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful CorporationBy Edwin Black Little, Brown and Company, 2001519pp., $30 (pb)
IBM, as it delights in telling us, is the "Solutions
BY FLAVIA CARABALLO
WOLLONGONG Residents in the Illawarra region are fighting Wollongong
City Council and the multinational Stockland company over a 428-lot housing
development planned for Sandon Point, Bulli. This piece of land is one
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