BY KATHY NEWNAM& PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE — In one of the largest refugee rights meetings to be held in Newcastle, nearly 200 people packed the Town Hall on August 31 to hear immigration minister Philip Ruddock's lies destroyed.
Anne Coombs,
508
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG — For 90 years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra.
August 31 was breakout
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Pakistani peasants shot dead
On August 26, Pakistani police and military fired on a gathering of 2000 peasants from Okara village.
The peasants had just been negotiating with the army landlords over the downgrading of tenancy rights. After
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
On August 31, a band of unidentified assailants ambushed a group of mine workers in Indonesia's eastern-most province of West Papua, leaving three dead and 11 injured.
Indonesian officials immediately blamed the Free Papua
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — Activists from a wide range of organisations attended a meeting on August 30 to organise action against the World Trade Organisation's "informal" meeting of trade ministers, due to be held in Sydney on November 14-15.
This
BY TAMARA PEARSON
SYDNEY — Despite
fancy audio technology, immigration minister Philip Ruddock could not be
heard over angry chants when visiting the University of NSW on September
3 to address the Law Society on Australia's immigration
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Remembering September 11 merely as a gruesome spectacle is an insult to the victims of that epic crime. However, remembering is important in order to make sense of it, and especially of what happened next.
Most of the
BY TIM GOODEN
MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance and the Skilled Six Committee
jointly hosted a rousing public meeting on September 2, discussing solidarity
with the militant unions in Victoria. The Victorian Trades Hall was occupied
by
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE —
The struggle between militant Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers
Union officials and the AMWU national office took a dramatic turn on September
2.
By noon of that day, the elected state secretary of the
Howard, Carr fuel racism
The combined efforts of John Howard, Bob Carr and the media to create a xenophobic atmosphere surrounding Muslims and all things Islamic has begun to bear its bitter and poisonous fruit.
On August 22, a pregnant woman was
BY NORMAN BREWER
SYDNEY — Reconciliation and peaceful dialogue among West Papuans
was the theme of the workshop of the West Papua Project, held at Sydney
University on September 2-3. The WPP is based at the Centre for Peace and
Conflict
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