BY PAMELA CURR
The Tampa woke Australia and the world to the savage brutality and unprincipled cunning of the Howard Government. Before the Tampa, concern for asylum seekers was found mainly amongst the usual miners canaries — those people in the
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BY ANNE SIMPSON
The Bellingen Rural Australians for Refugees (BRAR) group formed in October 2001 following an exhibition of refugee art and a subsequent forum at the Bellingen 2001 Global Carnival.
A week later, 20 concerned locals met to express
BY ROHAN PEARCE
An opinion poll, conducted August 7-8 by YouGov on behalf of the Mail on Sunday, confirmed that support for the ruling British Labour Party is continuing to plummet as the lies spun by Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to
BY DOUG LORIMER
The gushing tributes made by the warmakers in Washington, London and Canberra for the United Nations "special representative" in Iraq, Sergio Viera de Mello, provided an answer as to why Iraqi patriots would target the UN mission
BY DYLAN FERGUSON& LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE — After months of diluted information, stalls and community consultations few and far between, the Coastal Protection Board (CPB) is set to go ahead with a planned experimental breakwater at Semaphore.
BY SUZETTE MITCHELL
How do you see global feminism? The Girls Go Global Project is an international initiative that seeks to bring together contemporary and pop culture images of global feminism, created by women and girls across the globe.
The
REVIEW BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesWith Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes, David Andrews and Mark FamigliettiDirected by Jonathan MostowAt major cinemas
To great fanfare, the third
BY GEOFF PAYNE
NEWCASTLE — For those who don't know, Newcastle is a beautiful city. The sight of a massive bulk carrier being pulled and pushed into place by its attendant tugs is common. Even more special is when the ship appears, then
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Australia's treatment of refugees took its ugliest turn with the hijacking of the MV Tampa by heavily armed SAS squads on August 29, 2001, and the subsequent remote incarceration of thousands of asylum seekers, without any access
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — On August 17, nearly 100 people attended a meeting at Trades Hall to launch of the Fair Go campaign. The meeting was sponsored by a coalition of groups including the Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC), the Ethnic
BY JABULANE MATSEBULA
The Commonwealth went ahead with the Global 2003 Smart Partnership International Dialogue (SPID) conference in Swaziland on August 12-16. In deciding to hold the conference, the Commonwealth showed total disregard for the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
According to refugee supporters who are in regular contact with asylum seekers in the Baxter detention centre, on August 22 there were a number of suicide attempts following news that more than a dozen Iranian asylum seekers faced
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