BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — On December 3, 70 people attended the Refugee Action Network's final event for the year, a public meeting on the politics of temporary protection visas.
The meeting was addressed by lawyer Colin McDonald, Fran
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SYDNEY — Two-hundred people protested outside NSW parliament on December 2 as a closed meeting inside discussed legislation which would overrule the decision of the Land and Environment Court to rule against allowing waste management company Collex
MARK LATHAM: "In recent years there has been a backlash against some of the poorest people in our society. The reason for this backlash is simple ... [Australians] object to helping people who are cheating the system."
It's somewhere betweenthe obscene and uncleanbut John Howard is my inspiration.
You work for the dole.You mortgage your soul,and he calls that liberation.
Get off your fat arse,do a job that's first class.Yes, work is your obligation.
A hand-up
BY CHRISTIANO KERRILA
On the evening of December 2, tens of thousands of working-class supporters of Venezuela's radical left president, Hugo Chavez, poured into the streets of the country's capital, Caracas, to celebrate the defeat of the
In May, the Socialist Alliance national conference adopted a perspective proposed by a non-aligned caucus of 160 SA members to move the alliance towards becoming a united, multi-tendency socialist party. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's KERRYN WILLIAMS spoke to
BY CHRIS ATKINSON
SYDNEY — Despite widespread opposition from council workers and communities, the NSW Labor government is steamrolling ahead with plans to force local councils to amalgamate at the expense of jobs, facilities and community
BY JOHN TOGNOLINI
SYDNEY — At 140 stop-work meetings across NSW on December 2, members of the NSW Teachers Federation voted by a margin of 98% for stepped-up industrial action in support of their salaries campaign, including a 48-hour strike on
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — A year ago, political life in Russia was like a stagnant swamp. President Vladimir Putin's victory in the presidential election had solved none of the country's problems, while providing ample demonstration that
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — "We are facing the murder of Medicare", Doctors Reform Society president Tim Woodruff told 50 people at a public meeting in the town of Dromana, near Melbourne, on December 1.
Woodruff pointed out that Medicare was
BY ALISON DELLIT
On his second day as leader of the ALP, Mark Latham attempted to win some credibility as a pro-refugee compassionate. "Will the prime minister support Labor's call to have the 200 children in detention centres out by Christmas?",
From Nothing to Zero: Letters from Refugees in Australia's Detention CentresEdited by Janet Austin; introduction by Julian BurnsideLonely Planet, 2003193 pages, $22 (pb)
BY MAREE KENNY
"What a big joke with human rights. This regime is killing us
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