BY EVA CHENG
Despite being the biggest in the US energy business and seventh biggest among all US firms before its December 2 collapse, Enron had not paid income tax in four of the five years before 2000, according to Citizens for Tax Justice.
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BY MARK ABBERTON
CANBERRA — On January 26-27, hundreds of people from Aboriginal and other communities across Australia came together outside Old Parliament House to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The gathering
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — Refugee rights campaigners across the world have protested
against the Australian governmentÂ’s refugee policy. In Auckland, New Zealand
on January 26, activists picketed the Australian consulate. A similar picket
is
BY SARAH STEPHEN
There is a huge range of refugee solidarity web sites popping up
every day, reflecting the broadening of support and sympathy for the plight
of people trying to find a safe haven in Australia.
Children out of Detention
BY EVA CHENG
The United States National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) officially declared on November 26 that the US had lapsed into recession, and had been in that situation since March 2001. Soon after, the capitalist media and mainstream
REVIEW BY TRISH CORCORAN
The Boys From BallymoreBy Anthony BrownPenguin Books Australia, 2001355 pages, $23
Liam O'Brien returns to Ballymore after living in Australia, he remembers. Ballymore is a small town in Tipperary, Ireland. Liam finds the
BY EVA CHENG
"If I rob a bank, they throw me in jail. But if they rob me, then they say that's OK", screamed a protester who had joined thousands of others outside the office of Argentina's President Eduardo Duhalde on January 11 to demand
and ain't I a woman: Abortion access for all women
Many believe the myth that abortion is easily accessible to all women in Australia. It is not. For women living in rural areas, abortion is extremely expensive and disruptive. In Queensland,
Act Now to End War and Racism — ANSWER held a rally on February 2 to demand "Declare war on unemployment, poverty and mass layoffs not on the people of Afghanistan" and "Money for jobs, education and health care not war in Afghanistan". Visit
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — More than 350 people packed into the Labor Club on January 29 to express their concern about the treatment of refugees in Australia's detention centres.
The meeting was convened be the Refugee Action Committee
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — "The way we treat our most vulnerable and powerless will mark our society for years to come", Carmen Lawrence, ALP MP for Fremantle and the shadow minister for indigenous affairs, told 600 refugee-rights protesters on
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
The British Labour government's policy towards asylum seekers can be summed up in three words: detention, deportation and dispersal. There has been a major increase in the number of men, women and children incarcerated in
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