On February 27 we had a meeting with a senior DIMIA [Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs] officer, and we [were] told that DIMIA will find [a solution to] our problem within two months.
Now, the two months have
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Will Saunders and Dave Burgess are serving nine months of periodic detention for painting the words "No war" on the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Green Left Weekly's Niko Leka and Kerry Vernon spoke to Burgess after his first two months of weekend
Alex Miller
In a rally called by the Scottish Socialist Party, 2000 people marched against the council tax in Glasgow on April 24. The SSP is campaigning to have the current system of local taxation replaced by a Scottish Service Tax (SST), based
(for Etienne Patrice Kevin Mallard, who always cheered for ColonelMathieu and his shades, and, of course, for Liam)
Deja vu all over again. Some asshole from Texas is sending 'Merican boysand girls to do what Asian boys and girls should never do.
Lee Sustar, Washington
Activists from around the US were joined by representatives of social movements from around the world on April 24 for a spirited march in the US federal capital against the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund
Sarah Stephen
On April 26, a team of Australian lawyers, including prominent Melbourne QC Julian Burnside and solicitor Eric Vadarlis, planned to challenge in a Nauruan court the legality of visas issued to 252 asylum seekers to keep them in
The impact of Indonesia's election has been widely debated, but little attention has been paid to the movements for change in the country. Green Left Weekly's Vanessa Hearman spoke to Gigih Guntoro, the general secretary of the Indonesian National
Eva Cheng
Twenty days after Beijing's April 6 move to "interpret" Hong Kong's Basic Law in areas beyond its legal jurisdiction, it did it again.
On April 26, Beijing declared that it will not allow a popular vote on the territory's chief
Sarah Stephen
On April 26, Prime Minister John Howard restated to A Current Affair that his greatest fear for 2004 is a terrorist attack in Australia. But in reality, Howard's biggest fear is that Australia doesn't become a terrorist target, that
The severe oppression of women in Afghanistan suddenly became a issue when Washington decided to invade the country in 2001. But how much has improved? According to human rights activist Dr Nazir Gul, a former UN officer in Kabul, Afghan women are
BY ALLAN GARDINER
At a nearby table, women in soft headscarves arranged an elaborate hookah among the plates of spiced chicken. Children laughed in and out of the buzzing hall. Brisbane's Palestinian community and their supporters had turned up in
In Our NameWritten/directed by Nigel Jamieson, in association with the Al Abaddi familyBelvoir Street Theatre, SydneyPlaying until May 30
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
There are many moments of heart-stopping beauty in this staged narrative of an Iraqi
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