Melbourne: 1pm, Saturday February 2. City Square. Organised by Refugee Action Collective West. Ph Jody 03 9639 8622.
Perth: Noon, Saturday February 2. Wesley Church cnr, city. Ph Nikki 08 9218 9608.
Canberra/national convergence: 12.30pm, Tuesday
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GEELONG — On January 18, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's (construction division) opened its new Victorian branch office in the presence of 400 members and guests.
The new premises will also be home to the Australian
Black Hawk Down: Hollywood joins Bush's war
Black Hawk DownDirected by Ridley ScottWritten by Ken Nolan, based on the book by Mark BowdenStarring Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor and Tom Sizemore
REVIEW BY STUART EASTERLING
Black Hawk Down is a war
BY ALLEN JENNINGS
Colombia reached the brink of all-out war as the government threatened to end three-year-old peace negotiations with the left-wing guerilla organisation, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Buoyed by increased US
Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn — Reporter, Lover, Traveller and RebelBy Carl RollysonDuffy and Snellgrove, 2001284 pages, $19.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Even without being the lover of HG Wells and the wife of Ernest
Make the night your bodyDark child of the chest,how not to clutchthe face to your neck?Symbol of the war,the wonder, the ruin,can this gloryof a thousand black thingsbe born nowin your one last raidon the night?Whisper, day,to the basket droppedat
US relatives of victims of the September 11 terrorist strikes delivered compensation claims to US officials in Kabul on January 22 on behalf of Afghan civilians who have lost family members or homes in Washington's bombing of Afghanistan.
Agence
BY STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA — With the Coalition government on the back foot over its refugee policies, activists from around Australia are planning to converge on Parliament House on February 12 to call for a more humane refugee policy. February
Saudi Time Bomb?WGBH FrontlineSBSTuesday, February 5, 8.30pm
REVIEW BY NORM DIXON
This program opens with US President George Bush's famous September 20 warning that justified Washington's war on Afghanistan: "Either you are with us or you are
BY ROB MILLER
MELBOURNE — More than 500 people attended a protest called by the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) outside the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs on January 24. Many city workers attended the lunchtime rally to
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Guards daily tell detained asylum seekers to return to their countries and try to screen phone calls to prevent detainees speaking to the media. Asylum seekers who had stitches forcibly removed from their lips reinserted them. An
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — The Northern Territory's draconian Public Order and Anti-Social Conduct Act may soon be repealed by the NT Labor government. Pippa Rudd, spokesperson for NT Attorney-General Peter Toyne, told Â鶹ӳ» Weekly on
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