BY MAREE KENNY
"We get this guy out of bed early in the morning...he clings on to the bedstead. My job is to unwind his fingers. Struggling, Shouting. He won't go."
These words, spoken by an officer employed at Sydney's Villawood detention centre
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BY KERRIE BARRON & JAMES CAULFIELD
CANBERRA — A group of activists gathered outside the Royal Thailand Embassy in Yarralumla on June 12 in response to the Thai government's "war on drugs".
The "war" began around three months ago, and has
BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — On June 11, 100 people attended a public meeting convened by Gavin O'Connor, ALP MP member for the federal seat of Corio, to hear speakers talk about defending Medicare.
The meeting was addressed by Australian Nursing
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
MELBOURNE — More than 600 manufacturing companies were hit by a 24-hour stop work on June 12. The action was initiated a week earlier by a shop-stewards meeting of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers
BY DOUG LORIMER
When Australian Federal Police raided the homes of 10 Iranian Australians on June 3, the AFP agents carried warrants authorising them to seize information relating to refugees' rights organisations and the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK),
BY DALE MILLS
There have been more sensational revelations about British state-sponsored terrorism in Northern Ireland following the publication on April 17 of an official report — by Metropolitan Police chief Sir John Stevens — that found that
The Morris McMahon picket has entered its 14th week. Community pickets are being held at the factory gate every Thursday morning at 6.30am, 34 Arncliffe St, Arncliffe.
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BY JON LAND
NEWCASTLE â A bunch of local and national musicians are banding together to put on a huge fundraising event at the Civic Theatre on June 29 for War Child, an organisation that raises awareness of the struggle for survival facing
BY CHRISTINE HOWES
Chances are, if you happen into a library or government building around Brisbane, there will be a painting, mural or sculpture depicting some aspect of Aboriginal life or portrait of an Aboriginal person.
Chances are also high
BY LEIGH HUGHES
ADELAIDE — Student anti-war activists won a campaign for corporate accountability at Flinders University on June 11. The academic senate has agreed to establish a working group to investigate ties between corporate sponsors and
BY EVA CHENG
When the world's six top business clubs unite to call on the eight most powerful governments to help breathe new life into global trade talks, you can be sure those negotiations have hit a rock.
The European Round of Industrialists,
BY ELENA JEFFRIES
PERTH — Following the campaign against the WA Prostitution Control Bill 2003, the fight for sex workers' rights faces a new challenge, with the forced closure of both SWOPWA (the street sex worker outreach project) and the
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