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Taliban: Made by the USA and Detention Without TrialBy EyeBlatant PropagandaSend $5 for each CD to PO Box 1327, Woden 2606 ACT, Australia, or visit <http://on.to/propaganda>
REVIEW BY MARK ABBERTON
"Taliban, Taliban: Made by the USA.
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — On February 8, several young people crowded into a temporary detention center were watched by police as they chanted and waved placards. This was not the refugee detention centre at Maribyrnong, however, but outside the
By Andrea Miles
With the commencement of bombing in Afghanistan, US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair started proclaiming that the fall of the Taliban regime would be a victory for women's rights. If this were the case perhaps
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — Julia Gillard, Labor's shadow minister for immigration and ethnic affairs, told a February 6 public meeting attended by more than 200 people that she was "not ashamed of the decisions Labor took in the run up to the
By Kate Wilson
Shayan Bedraie made the perilous journey from Iran to Australia by boat with his Kurdish family, fleeing from government repression. He was only four years old, but the Australian immigration system placed him in mandatory detention,
Anti-refugee policy can be abolished
Prime Minister John Howard and immigration minister Philip Ruddock stood
firm throughout the two-week hunger strike by asylum seekers in the Woomera
detention centre. Some said this was proof that
BY EVA CHENG
Under severe pressure from the Bush administration and the International Monetary Fund, the five-week-old government of Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde has chosen the "lesser evil" of floating his country's currency, the peso,
By Nicole Hoye
Women in Australia and in most other countries still do not have control over their reproductive lives. Abortion is still a crime in all states of Australia.
Women's access to abortion services still depends on judicial
and ain't i a woman?: Gender and the 'sanctity of marriage'
"Kevin" and "Jennifer" (names assigned to them by the Family Court) are a perfectly ordinary couple in their mid-30s, except that Kevin was born a female. In 1965, Kevin started life
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — After attending an evening lecture at one of this city's universities last August, a young woman was dragged into the bushes and raped in a badly lit area of the campus. She could not identify her attacker. The woman
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