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Tampa 2 years on: Fight for refugees is fight for ourselves

BY PAMELA CURR The Tampa woke Australia and the world to the savage brutality and unprincipled cunning of the Howard Government. Before the Tampa, concern for asylum seekers was found mainly amongst the usual miners canaries — those people in the

Workers oppose funding cuts to Anti-Discrimination Board

BY JENNY LONG SYDNEY — NSW Anti-Discrimination Board (ADB) workers have responded furiously to vicious cuts to be imposed on the ADB by the Premier Bob Carr's Labor government. The government's plans for massive funding cuts to the ADB became

Money for education - not war!

BY PETER ROBSON The Wodonga campus of La Trobe University only offers one humanities subject. There are almost twice as many students enrolled in the course as there are places. The lecture theatre's doors are closed as soon as all the seats are

BRITAIN: Hutton inquiry further exposes Blair's Iraq lies

BY ROHAN PEARCE An opinion poll, conducted August 7-8 by YouGov on behalf of the Mail on Sunday, confirmed that support for the ruling British Labour Party is continuing to plummet as the lies spun by Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to

Tariq Ali: 'The war is not going well for Bush'

TARIQ ALI is a long-time political activist, author and socialist. In the 1960s and '70s, he was a leading figure in the British movement against the US war against the people of Vietnam. He is currently an editor of the New Left Review. Ali spoke

Feminism without limits

BY SUZETTE MITCHELL How do you see global feminism? The Girls Go Global Project is an international initiative that seeks to bring together contemporary and pop culture images of global feminism, created by women and girls across the globe. The

Tampa 2 years on: RAR - building networks

BY ANNE SIMPSON The Bellingen Rural Australians for Refugees (BRAR) group formed in October 2001 following an exhibition of refugee art and a subsequent forum at the Bellingen 2001 Global Carnival. A week later, 20 concerned locals met to express

Why the UN's Baghdad office was bombed

BY DOUG LORIMER The gushing tributes made by the warmakers in Washington, London and Canberra for the United Nations "special representative" in Iraq, Sergio Viera de Mello, provided an answer as to why Iraqi patriots would target the UN mission

Tampa 2 years on: The Tampa's mixed legacy

BY SARAH STEPHEN Australia's treatment of refugees took its ugliest turn with the hijacking of the MV Tampa by heavily armed SAS squads on August 29, 2001, and the subsequent remote incarceration of thousands of asylum seekers, without any access

Beach destruction to be resisted

BY DYLAN FERGUSON& LESLIE RICHMOND ADELAIDE — After months of diluted information, stalls and community consultations few and far between, the Coastal Protection Board (CPB) is set to go ahead with a planned experimental breakwater at Semaphore.

Terminator 3 or how I learned to stop worrying and love Arnie

REVIEW BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesWith Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes, David Andrews and Mark FamigliettiDirected by Jonathan MostowAt major cinemas To great fanfare, the third

SWAZILAND: Commonwealth ignores violent attacks against peaceful Swazis

BY JABULANE MATSEBULA The Commonwealth went ahead with the Global 2003 Smart Partnership International Dialogue (SPID) conference in Swaziland on August 12-16. In deciding to hold the conference, the Commonwealth showed total disregard for the