BY SARAH STEPHEN
The European Union faces an ironic contradiction in coming decades. As birth rates continue to decline, many countries face negative population growth. The EU needs more immigration. Yet the European Council's June 21-22 meeting in
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BY JESS MELVIN & BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE Culminating a week of pro-refugee protest action, 100
high school students gathered outside Flinders Street Station on June 28,
despite bucketing rain.
People our age are the victims
SCOTLAND
Socialists ready to shock the establishment
BY FRANCIS CURRAN
With less than one year until the Scottish Parliament elections,
due in May 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) faces its biggest challenge
yet.
BY PIP HINMAN& SARAH STEPHEN
On June 23, the same day that 13,000 people took to the streets across Australia to oppose the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, detainees at the Woomera detention centre began a hunger strike. By June 24, 180-190
Student conference to welcome refugees
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH The collective organising the July 7-13 Students and Sustainability
(S&S) conference, to be held at Murdoch University, has declared that
it will give sanctuary to
SOUTH AFRICA: Sacrificing
AIDS victims for corporate profits
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG During the last few days of June, at the same time
as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Congress of South African Trade
Unions
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
Escape to Paradise
Directed by Nino Jacusso
With Duzgun Ayhan, Fidan Firat, Nurettin Yildiz and Walo Luond
Distributed by First Hand Films
Frontieres (Borders)
Directed by Mostefa Djadjam
With Lou
[The following remarks by Booker Prize winning author THOMAS KENEALLY
were read out to the June 23 World Refugee Week rally in Sydney.]
I am disappointed
I cannot be there today to add my voice to yours. Like you, I consider
the compulsory
AFGHANISTAN
Sham assembly installs warlord coalition
BY NORM DIXON
The much-hyped loya jirga or grand assembly was supposed
to be post-Taliban Afghanistan's first step towards the creation of a representative
democratic
The Game
I must tell you of my felony.
It is, that at every moment, I was falling away
from beauty.
In a woman's face I was the eternal coldness,
in her hands the unmaturing child
growing heavier, disturbing her spine
year
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