Australia's prison population increased by 3% last year, with an average of 23,816 people behind bars at any one time.
Tasmania recorded a 17% jump in incarcerations last year.
The Northern Territory has the highest incarceration rate: In 2004,
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On April 7, Washington's ambassador in Bogota explained that the US would not extradite US soldiers caught smuggling cocaine in Colombian territory, because they had "diplomatic immunity". The envoy, fending off Colombian parliamentarians' calls for
Land to the poor, schools to the youngDentists for them all so smiles beamat victory stories talked and revolt stories sungword on the street is the gifts are as they've seen
Factories to the workers, bold in their new hourunions taking heart at
Sir! No Sir — The story of how US GIs, in their thousands, created a widespread, unprecedented movement against the war in Vietnam. Through demonstrations, underground newspapers, combat refusals and more, US GIs altered the course of the Vietnam
Call on your union leadership to join the Victorian unions and protest on June 30. United, we can defeat Howard! For a draft motion email <sueb@greenleft.org.au>.From Green Left Weekly, April 27, 2005.
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On April 20, more than 5000 students marched through Santiago de Chile to demand President Ricardo Lagos veto the new Financing of Higher Education law submitted to Congress. The students claim the bill is de-facto privatisation of education, as it
DARWIN — Protesters gathered outside the Robertson Barracks on April 17, where PM John Howard was sending off 450 additional Australian troops to Iraq. Howard was jeered with cries of "war criminal" as he passed the protest. From Green Left
On April 18, the Movement for Socialism (MAS) brought a formal lawsuit against President Carlos Mesa, and former presidents Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and Jorge Quiroga, accusing them of violating the constitution in signing oil contracts without
Ruth Ratcliffe& Daniel Gregory, Newcastle
The Save Our Rail (SOR) committee is planning to join the local May Day march this year in another demonstration of the widespread opposition to the Carr Labor government's plan to cut the Newcastle train
SYDNEY — On April 21, more than 100 people attended a relaunching of the Leichhardt Stop the War Group at Leichhardt Town Hall.
Titled "Iraq: Time to bring the troops home", the meeting heard from former intelligence analyst Andrew Wilkie, civil
Students won't be silenced
Zoe Kenny
This year the federal government is moving ahead with its anti-student union legislation, euphemistically referred to as "voluntary student unionism". VSU is designed to eliminate the funding base for
For over two decades the US has forced neoliberalism — and its accompanying poverty and despair — down Third World throats in order to make the world better for US business. To many, the spreading US economic empire, backed by the point of a gun
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