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Sarah Stephen Given the significant number of people wrongfully detained under the migration act, the potential for innocent people to be wrongfully detained under the preventative detention orders in the new terror laws is frightening. So-called
Tony Iltis Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside, who acted for the Tampa refugees in 2001, believes the federal Coalition government's "anti-terror" laws will "seriously undermine basic civil freedoms that have been recognised for at least three
Pip Hinman Maureen has worked hard all her life, beginning at age 15 at the giant vegetable cannery Edgells, and later as a nurse. It's only been in her middle age that Maureen has been able to tackle her tertiary preparation certificate at TAFE,
The broom-bristles-for-eyebrows neolithhammers away at our enmeshed foundations,ignoring centuries of same-sex promiscuities.He's teamed up with God to decide what's natural and right,hiding from the mardi-gras that leaves pride and defiance like
Stuart Munckton "To the anger of many in Washington, Citgo Petroleum Corporation, a company controlled by the Venezuelan Government, will supply more than 45 million litres of oil at 40 per cent below market prices" to poor residents in Boston and
And in the Third Worldpeople drop dead, asheavy, dirty rain in a storm And here, we dancewith effortwe singwithout songthey make us build their modernspace age buildingswithout colourwe createtheir paintings and gardens andlarge billboard
As part of its efforts to whip up an atmosphere of "imminent terrorist attack" in Australia, and thereby ensure public acceptance of its new, anti-democratic "anti-terrorism" laws, the federal government staged a drastic attack on civil rights with
BY DAVE RILEY All the contention that is focused on the world wide web's innate ability to facilitate the sharing of music files has obscured the significance of some more recent web audio developments. If the Mp3 revolution is impacting on sales
The larvae of light will never move in his eye,Despite his mother clapping her hands,And the drum throbbing, and the Udh thrumming,And the drum burrowing down the ears of the Universe; His legs will never unfold and run,Despite his mother taking
Doug Lorimer In a speech given on November 30 at the US Naval Academy on November 30, US President George Bush admitted that "ordinary Iraqis" made up the majority of those fighting the US-led occupation of Iraq. The speech was the first of
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN Following Them Home: the Fate of the Returned Asylum SeekersBy David CorlettBlack Inc Books, 2005220 pages, $24.95 "The Australian government has long declared that it owes no duty of care to those asylum seekers it
Barry Healy UN troops in Haiti are actively terrorising civilians, a coalition of human rights activists said in Washington on November 15, as they filed two legal petitions with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The