LONDON — Human rights activists on July 9 began 24-hour vigil outside Australia House in protest at human rights abuses at the Woomera refugee detention centre. Four hunger strikers positioned themselves in front of the building. The protest was
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Museworthy: Afton Blommor (Evening Flower) for Par Lagerkvist
You asked our questionsWhen we could not have asked themBecause we did not know what would fulfil usBecause we did not know what to askThat you were forgotten is rightThat what you
UN award for Tampa seafarers
Wilhelmsen Line and the crew of the MV Tampa have jointly won a $100,000 award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for rescue on the high seas.
The Tampa's crew and owner were given the award for
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — After looking at the Socialist Alliance's priority pledges for the July 20 Tasmanian elections, several of my workmates made comments such as "that would be nice if it were possible, but you could never fund promises
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WMC's hypocrisy on greenhouse emissions
BY JIM GREEN
On June 10, Hugh Matheson Morgan AO, chief executive of WMC Limited, was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia for services to business,
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG & MARCEL CAMERON
BRISBANE — Despite the state ALP government's attempts to undermine the Queensland Nurses Union's (QNU) stop-work rally at Parliament House on July 12, more than 3000 angry public and private sector nurses
BY TODD CHRETIEN
The killing of two demonstrators by police on June 26 has sent political shock waves through Argentina. The murders took place in an industrial suburb of Buenos Aires, where activists of the militant unemployed movement — known
BY DAVID BACON
IMMOKALEE — If a small union of Florida farmworkers has its way, the nasal voice of the famous Chihuahua will be saying, "No quiero Taco Bell" (I don't want Taco Bell) on college campuses across the United States.
For almost a
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY The proceedings have been more like a prosecution of the
union than a genuine investigation of the building industry This was
how Andrew Ferguson, secretary of the NSW Construction, Forestry, Mining
and
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — The tenacity and determination of teachers, students and other members of the local community has forced the overturning of former NSW education minister John Aquilina's decision to close Dulwich and Marrickville high
BY EMMA CLANCY
PERTH — Murdoch University hosted the 2002 Students and Sustainability Conference, held July 7-13. The conference was attended by around 500 students, there to learn about and discuss environmental and human rights campaigns.
PARIS — An estimated 500,000 people took part in the June 29 Pride March here. Calling for "Egalite!" (equality), lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender contingents paraded from Montparnasse to Bastille Square. Photo by Jonathan Strauss.From Green
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