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DIMIA: 'an abusive system'

Dr Michael Dudley I think that the Four Corners program showed (among other things) how immigration department (DIMIA) and detention centre staff were very slow in responding to Cornelia Rau's distress, despite the signals given from visitors,

Write on: Letters to the editor

Socialist Alliance Hear hear, Dave Riley (GLW #620), a broad-based Socialist Alliance is essential, and it is this very quality that gives it its strength and attraction for so many. If the Socialist Alliance did not speak out for refugees, for

Correction

The article in GLW issue #621 entitled "UNSW Guild staff strike over redundancy pay" stated that the previous year's guild executive officer had agreed verbally to the NTEU's demands. It was the staff management committee negotiating team that agreed

Aboriginal elder convicted for reclaiming cultural symbols

Lara Pullin, Canberra Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott appeared in the ACT Supreme Court on March 29-April 6 on charges of stealing a coat of arms. On January 27, 2002, Buzzacott removed the metal Australian coat of arms from Old Parliament House,

On the box

Message Stick: Koori Court — "Broken Bones" is a gritty tale of social realism, portraying both the negative and positive aspects of Indigenous family culture. ABC, Friday, April 15, 6pm. Get Up Stand Up: We Shall Overcome — Identifies the

UNITED STATES: Racists with guns patrol border

From March 31-April 30, the US-Mexico border in Arizona will be flooded with dangerous, armed idiots, as an estimated 2000 volunteers join the "Minutemen Project", which describes itself as "Americans doing the job Congress won't". The volunteers

This week in history

April 13 1949: 10,000 people attend the Australian Peace Congress in Melbourne. April 14 1930: More than 100 Mexican and Filipino farm workers are arrested in California, USA, for union activity. April 15 1944: Fred Paterson becomes

SCOTLAND: Soldier's mother to contest seat

Rose Gentle, the mother of Gordon Gentle who was killed in Iraq last year, announced on April 5 that she would stand against minister for armed forces Adam Ingram in the May 5 British general election. The Scottish Socialist Party immediately

Socialist activist among "top ten" protesters

Alex Bainbridge Socialist Alliance member Kamala Emanuel was labelled one of Tasmania's "top ten protesters" by the March 29 Mercury, alongside the likes of Greens Senator Bob Brown, gay rights activist Rodney Croome and Gardening Australia

Inside the US military machine

America's Military Today: The Challenge of MilitarismBy Tod EnsignNew Press, 2004430 pages, $37 Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters from the War ZoneBy Michael MooreSimon and Schuster, 2004218 pages, $25 REVIEW BY ERIC RUDER Since September

Baxter at Easter*

I saw the pricks pricking balloonsI saw them seizing kitesthey were protecting ignorance for the sake of all uptights.They all wore coppers' uniformsthey all had coppers' minds,barely a brain cell between them,these are John Howard's times.When

100 Bolivians granted Cuban scholarships

The Cuban embassy in Bolivia announced on April 4 that Cuba would award 100 university scholarships to poor Bolivian young people. The bulletin explained that the program was part of Cuba's policy of international solidarity and collaboration. There