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10 July 2008
Labor
government introduces draconian police powers for Pope's visit
7 July 2008
Australia:
Rudd government tries to suppress Haneef frame-up documents
5 July 2008
Australia:
Release of secret reports highlights Labor's role in boosting
spy agencies
10 June 2008
Bill
Henson case dropped but Australia’s "moral guardians"
demand harsher censorship laws
3 June 2008
Growing
condemnation of censorship of Australian artist Bill Henson
30 May 2008
Australian
photographer Bill Henson--scapegoat for a wider assault on democratic
rights
26 May 2008
Australia:
Labor government backs witch-hunting of photographer Bill Henson
20 May 2008
Australia:
Haneef documents point to Howard cabinet's role in witch-hunt
6 May 2008
Former
prosecutor testifies that Guantánamo military commissions
are show trials
Lawyer speaks to WSWS: "David Hicks was a pawn
in a political process"
1 May 2008
Australia:
Haneef "terrorism" inquiry to be conducted behind closed
doors
24 April 2008
Australia:
Latest "terror plot" claims unravel in court
15 April 2008
Australian
Federal Police still pursuing Mohamed Haneef
7 April 2008
Australian
court quashes convictions of protesters for entering US spy base
2 April 2008
Judge
temporarily halts Australian terrorist trial over mistreatment
of prisoners
26 March 2008
Australia:
Haneef inquiry seeks to "restore confidence" in terror
laws
10 March 2008
Lengthy
terrorist trials underway in Australia
3 March 2008
Australian
Federal Police commissioner reveals scale of Haneef frame-up
14 January 2008
Australian
Labor government threatens to censor Internet
3 January 2008
Australia:
Political vendetta resumes as David Hicks leaves prison
Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner,
speaks with WSWS
24 December 2007
Australian
Labor government endorses further punitive measures against David
Hicks
10 December 2007
Australia:
Howard government knew of Guantánamo detainee's torture
complaints
1 November 2007
Howard
government caught out lying over Hicks release from Guantánamo
Terry Hicks, father of Australian Guantánamo
prisoner, speaks with the WSWS
9 October 2007
Australia's
High Court rules that voting rights can be abolished
28 September 2007
"Policing the neighbourhood"--Australia's
new para-military police
Part 2
27 September 2007
"Policing the neighbourhood"--Australia's
new para-military police
Part 1
8 September 2007
Haneef
police transcript exposes Australian government's "terrorist
conspiracy" claims
5 September 2007
Australian
legal academics accept arrest of antiwar colleague
4 September 2007
Australia:
Extraordinary security operation shuts down central Sydney for
APEC summit
24 August 2007
"Terrorism" case unravels further Australian judge overturns government cancellation
of Dr Haneef's visa
13 August 2007
Australian High Court radically expands scope of military
power
Judges sanction "control order" on Jack Thomas
28 July 2007
Haneef
"terrorism" charges dropped: a debacle for the Howard
government
25 July 2007
Australian
government launches unprecedented attacks on lawyers as Haneef
case falls apart
20 July 2007
Australian
government's "terrorist" case against Dr Haneef unravels
17 July 2007
Australian
government unilaterally detains doctor after court agrees to
bail
14 July 2007
Australia:
British terrorist attacks used to detain doctor without trial
2 July 2007
Antiwar
protesters fined for entering US-Australian spy base
26 June 2007
Police
spy agencies target Australian universities
23 June 2007
Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner,
speaks with WSWS
"People are now waking up..."
5 June 2007
Guantánamo
prisoner David Hicks incarcerated in high-security Australian
jail
4 June 2007
Another threat to democratic rights
Australia: protesters face jail for opposing spy base's role
in Iraq war
21 May 2007
Australia:
Police-state measures for APEC summit in Sydney
7 May 2007
Tamils
arrested in Australia under Howard's draconian "anti-terrorism"
laws
24 April 2007
Jack Thomas "control order" case
Australian government argues for mass detention power in "war
on terror"
14 April 2007
Guantánamo Bay detainee railroaded into guilty
plea
The issues of principle in the case of David Hicks
28 March 2007
David
Hicks bullied into guilty plea at Guantánamo kangaroo
court
20 March 2007
Australia: The true face of the "war on terror"
Anti-terror police raid homes of Sydney University students
SEP demands immediate release of Australian citizen
David Hicks from Guantánamo
7 March 2007
Australian
government declares it owes no legal duty to Guantánamo
detainee David Hicks
27 February 2007
Senior
lawyers accuse Australian government of war crimes over Guantánamo
23 February 2007
Australian
government prepares to introduce de facto universal ID card
19 February 2007
Demands
grow for release of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, David
Hicks
26 January 2007
In
the face of mounting opposition, Australian government backs
new Guantánamo courts
8 January 2007
David
Hicks enters his sixth year of detention at Guantánamo
Bay
30 December 2006
Australian
court orders re-trial on terrorist charges
15 December 2006
Australian
lawyers launch court bid to secure David Hicks's release from
Guantánamo
12 December 2006
Australian
rallies demand release of David Hicks from Guantánamo
Bay
27 October 2006
Australia's
new sedition laws and the case of Brian Cooper
26 October 2006
Australian
government revives book banning
9 October 2006
Australian
attorney-general insists sleep deprivation is not torture
30 September 2006
Australian
government rejects limits on sedition powers
5 September 2006
Australia:
Thousands hear US military lawyer for David Hicks
30 August 2006
Australia's
first "control order" imposed on Jack Thomas
28 August 2006
Australia:
The torture of Jack Thomas
22 August 2006
Australian
court overturns "terrorist" conviction based on torture
21 August 2006
Australia: Electoral bill blocks registration of new
parties
A new assault on democratic rights
7 July 2006
Following US Supreme Court ruling
Australian government demands new "kangaroo court"
for David Hicks
1 July 2006
Another sign of popular disgust
Australian film festival audience invites Mamdouh Habib to speak
about Guantánamo documentary
22 June 2006
Australian
government retains detention powers
21 June 2006
A
dangerous precedent: Australian man convicted of "preparing
terrorism"
4 May 2006
Australian
police harass former Guantánamo prisoner
12 April 2006
Use
of police infiltrators raises fresh questions about "terrorist"
raids in Australia
7 April 2006
Australian
man jailed on evidence derived from torture
5 April 2006
New
phone-tapping powers in Australia
23 March 2006
On
orders from prime minister's department and police: Australian
web site shut down
16 March 2006
"No
threat"--but massive security at Melbourne Games
8 March 2006
Graffiti computer game banned in Australia
Bi-partisan censorship campaign targets youth
1 March 2006
Australian
jury dismisses main charges in Melbourne "terrorism"
case
15 February 2006
New attack on freedom of expression Australian police seize artwork from gallery
4 February 2006
Another
exposure of Australian government involvement in citizen's torture
12 January 2006
Australian
terrorist trials face lengthy delays
28 December 2005
British
court rules Guantánamo detainee David Hicks entitled to
UK citizenship
3 December 2005
An act of barbarism
Nguyen Tuong Van executed in Singapore
2 December 2005
Australian
government insists on sedition clauses in new terrorism legislation
28 November 2005
Military
trial of David Hicks and other Guantánamo prisoners deferred
25 November 2005
Australian
"terror" raids target Tamil groups
17 November 2005
Police
claims raise new questions about "terrorist" raids
in Australia
10 November 2005
Anger
mounts over Australia's anti-terror laws
9 November 2005
Howard's terrorist "alert" leads to
Politically manipulated police raids in Australia
8 November 2005
Within days of Howard's terror "alert"
Australian government seeks expanded powers to call out troops
7 November 2005
Unanimous backing for Howard's emergency anti-terror
laws
A revealing line-up in the Australian Senate
5 November 2005
Unanswered
questions about Australia's "terrorist" alert
4 November 2005
Australian
legal experts condemn Anti-Terrorism Bill
3 November 2005
Australia's
"Anti-Terrorism" Bill: the framework for a police state
2 November 2005
To silence opposition to police-state measures
Australian government declares "urgent" terrorist threat
31 October 2005
"Bali
Nine" alleged drug traffickers set up for execution by Australian
police
26 October 2005
Howard
government abandons Australian citizen sentenced to death in
Singapore
10 October 2005
Australian
government instigates move to jail journalists
5 October 2005
Australia:
Labor premiers join hands with Howard at "anti-terror"
summit
30 September 2005
With Canberra's loyal support
US to resume Guantánamo trial of David Hicks
21 September 2005
Mamdouh
Habib, former Guantánamo Bay prisoner, speaks with the
WSWS
14 September 2005
Australian
government to deport American antiwar activist
12 September 2005
Australian
government unveils legal framework for police state
25 August 2005
Australian
government continues to back discredited US military tribunals
Father of Australian Guantánamo prisoner speaks
to the WSWS
18 August 2005
Australia:
terrorism trial of Jack Thomas to rely on coerced evidence
30 June 2005
New
wave of police "anti-terror" raids in Australia
28 June 2005
Two
Australian "terrorist" trials set dangerous precedents
19 May 2005
The politics of the "war on terror"
Two Australian academics openly advocate torture
25 April 2005
Jury
throws out charges in first Australian "terrorist"
trial
19 April 2005
Australian
media debates legalisation of torture
14 April 2005
Disturbing
new facts emerge on incarceration of Australian woman
6 April 2005
Muted
response by Canberra as Australian woman faces death penalty
in Indonesia
4 April 2005
A
cynical twist in Australia's mandatory refugee detention regime
28 March 2005
New
details of Australian involvement in the torture of Mamdouh Habib
18 February 2005
Released Guantánamo inmate speaks out Mamdouh Habib indicts Australian government
9 February 2005
Australian
woman imprisoned for 10 months as an illegal immigrant
7 February 2005
Australian
government persecutes released Guantánamo prisoner
24 January 2005
US
and Australian governments delay release of Guantánamo
detainee
14 January 2005
US
releases Mamdouh Habib and four British prisoners from Guantánamo
Bay
13 January 2005
"Support for our struggle is growing"
Father of Guantánamo Bay prisoner speaks with WSWS
20 December 2004
Secret
evidence used in Australian "terrorist" trial
18 December 2004
David
Hicks details abuse in Guantánamo Bay
25 November 2004
Australia:
Refugee detained for two years on false intelligence
9 November 2004
Guantánamo
Bay trial of David Hicks adjourned
2 November 2004
Australia:
new bipartisan assault on basic legal rights
14 September 2004
Terry
Hicks speaks with WSWS
Father of Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner denounces Howard
government
1 September 2004
Hicks
pleads not guilty at Guantanamo Bay "kangaroo court"
12 August 2004
New
Guantanamo Bay torture allegations incriminate Australian government
26 July 2004
Australia:
latest "terrorist" case relies on police entrapment
18 June 2004
Release Hicks, Habib and all Guantanamo Bay detainees
Howard government aids and abets US torture
15 June 2004
Meeting
opposes Australia's draconian "anti-terror" laws
21 May 2004
New US torture revelations
Former prisoners demand release of Guantanamo Bay videotapes
Father of Guantanamo Bay prisoner says son has been
abused
10 May 2004
This is a war 'of terror', not 'on terror'
An interview on Australia's "terrorist"
arrests
4 May 2004
Australia's
first "terrorist" charges: timed for Howard's election
campaign
26 April 2004
Nauru
deal cements Australia's Pacific incarceration policy
7 April 2004
Australian
government uses Madrid bombings to justify further police-state
powers
10 March 2004
Australian
government gets "carte blanche" to outlaw organisations
26 February 2004
Australian
Labor leader proposes retrospective laws to prosecute Guantanamo
Bay detainees
4 February 2004
A blatant attack on democratic rights: Protestors jailed over antiwar sign on Sydney Opera
House
30 January 2004
US
military lawyer denounces Guantanamo Bay trials
30 December 2003
Australian
detainee at Guantanamo Bay pressured to plead guilty
17 December 2003
Arrest of Zak Mallah: test case for Australia's anti-terror laws
4 November 2003
Australia:
More sensational "terror cell" claims: but where is
the evidence?
20 October 2003
Australia:
Protesters face jail over Opera House antiwar slogan
16 October 2003
Australian
officials detain French student of African descent
9 October 2003
Law
students' forum reviews Australia's "shrinking democracy"
8 October 2003
Guantanamo Bay detainee's family speaks with WSWS
"Why isn't the US military up on trial for terrorism?"
19 September 2003
Families
of Guantanamo Bay prisoners launch US Supreme Court appeal
12 August 2003
Father of Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner speaks
to WSWS
"Howard is clutching at straws, but they're getting shorter"
26 July 2003
Australian
and British governments claim military trials will be "fair"
15 July 2003
Release
David Hicks and all Guantanamo Bay detainees
1 July 2003
ASIO Terrorism Act
Unprecedented police-state measures passed by Australian parliament
17 June 2003
Australian
government resumes push for detention without trial
16 June 2003
Australian
government bans Sydney Film Festival movie
10 May 2003
Pakistan
to release Australian Jack Thomas after five months jail without
charge
26 February 2003
Australian
government backs imprisonment of Melbourne man in Pakistan
13 December 2002
Australian
High Court libel ruling threatens Internet free speech
19 November 2002
Police
assault anti-WTO protesters in Australia
3 October 2002
Australia:
Families face collective punishment after gang rape sentences
23 August 2002
Australian
families of Guantanamo Bay prisoners denounce US court ruling
29 July 2002
Prisoners
held in Australian police cells denied basic rights
26 July 2002
Australia:
"Anti-terror" laws passed with bipartisan support
18 July 2002
Australia:
Anti-democratic election laws behind trial of right-wing politicians
1 July 2002
Australian
secret police withhold young worker's passport
27 June 2002
Australian
MP appeals against conviction for migration fraud
31 May 2002
Australian
prisoners in Guantanamo Bay send letters exposing their illegal
detention
25 May 2002
Australian
government forced to delay "anti-terrorism" laws
18 May 2002
Australia: Howard government bans French movie Baise-moi
13 May 2002
Howard
government backs US incarceration of second Australian in Camp
X-Ray
7 May 2002
Victimised
Australian professor reinstated but placed on "leave"
6 May 2002
Police
attack May Day protests in Australia
27 April 2002
Australian
Senate hearings reveal public opposition to "terrorism"
laws
26 April 2002
Howard
government complicit in detention of Australian citizen by US
military
17 April 2002
Father
of Australian POW denounces illegal detention at Guantanamo Bay
11 March 2002
Australian,
British and US lawyers challenge detention of Guantanamo Bay
prisoners
26 February 2002
Australia:
Labor trials "rent-a-cop" plan
15 February 2002
Australian
government launches new attacks on free speech
8 February 2002
Australian
detainee at Guantanamo Bay abandoned by Howard government
Interview on the Hicks case: "A blatant disregard
for human rights"
29 October 2001
Media
witchhunt Australian boxer for opposing US war
25 October 2001
Unprecedented
police raid on nightclubs in Australia's largest city
23 October 2001
Australia:
Police deeply entrenched in Sydney's drug traffic
4 October 2001
Australia:
US terror attacks used to introduce sweeping police powers
21 August 2001
Questions
raised after five mentally-ill prisoners die in Australia
2 August 2001
Australia:
"Anti-social conduct" outlawed in the Northern Territory
23 June 2001
Australian
newspaper chain launches unprecedented smear against Aboriginal
official
19 June 2001
Australian
university refuses to reinstate sacked academic
13 June 2001
Australian
state premier declares he will "cement" long-term prisoners
in their cells
20 April 2001
Union
undermines the defence of sacked Australian academic
7 April 2001
New
Australian police powers overturn presumption of innocence
28 February 2001
A test case for free speech
Australian academic dismissed for opposing falling university
standards
20 February 2001
Commando-style
police raid in Sydney designed to intimidate youth
19 January 2001
South Australian police raid bookshop and seize Mapplethorpe's
Pictures
24 November 2000
Further
moves to undermine Australian public broadcaster
1 November 2000
A
precipitous increase in Australia's prison population
13 October 2000
Australia:
Private prisons to remain in Victoria despite government takeover
of women's jail
28 September 2000
Australia:
Investigation to be conducted into police violence against anti-WEF
protesters
31 August 2000
Security
preparations in Australia for upcoming World Economic Forum
29 August 2000
Australian
government seeks to push through revamped military call-out Bill
5 August 2000
Australian
government uses Sydney Olympics to strengthen military powers
20 April 2000
Bid for increased police power in Australia
Wee Waa: a test case for mass DNA sampling
28 March 2000
Australia:
Alarming death rate among recently released female prisoners
14 March 2000
Huge
security buildup for Sydney Olympics
19 February 2000
Public
outcry in Australia over jailed Aboriginal boy's suicide
11 February 2000
The banning and unbanning in Australia of the new
French film Romance
7 February 2000
Australia:
Police raids on ultra-right party set dangerous precedent
17 January 2000
Konrad Kalejs given refuge again
Australia a "safe haven" for Nazi war criminals
11 January 2000
Child
psychiatrist discusses Supreme Court manslaughter trial of young
boy in Australia
29 December 1999
National
Gallery of Australia cancels Sensation exhibition
24 December 1999
An interview with victimised Australian teacher
"Freedom of speech must be defended"
15 December 1999
Supreme Court declares government's gag clause invalid
Sacked Australian teacher wins significant victory
New Labor government defends Kennett's gagging laws
in the Supreme Court
9 December 1999
Australian jury unmoved by government campaign
Young boy acquitted of manslaughter
30 November 1999
Manslaughter
trial of 11-year-old continues in Australian Supreme Court
29 November 1999
Australian
Greens join Labor to block registration of new parties
18 November 1999
American
abortion doctor detained by Australian immigration
"I have traveled all over the world... but nobody
has ever treated me like this"
WSWS interviews Dr Warren Hern
4 November 1999
Australia's
"Republic" referendum reveals mass disaffection
21 September 1999
Spotlight on Australian justice
Aboriginal teenagers jailed, prison suicides treble
7 September 1999
Australian
laws violate children's rights
31 July 1999
Widening media scandal in Australia
Big business pays millions to radio talkshow host
24 July 1999
Australia:
Media hysteria fails to prevent release of John Lewthwaite
23 July 1999
Drug companies exploited medical volunteers in Australia
Human guinea pigs and profiteering in World War II
7 July 1999
Australian
community television in crisis
25 June 1999
Prisons
galore: the real face of the New South Wales budget
11 June 1999
Australian
government introduces Internet censorship laws
22 May 1999
Australia:
Media magnates call for scrapping of ownership restrictions
17 May 1999
Magistrate's verdict overturned
11-year-old child to stand trial for manslaughter in Australia
17 April 1999
Committal hearing concludes in Sydney
"Criminally wrong" or "naughty"?--little
boy could face trial for manslaughter
27 March 1999
Political police will hack into computers
Wide new powers for Australian spy agency
18 March 1999
10-year-old charged with manslaughter in Australia
Media sensationalises Sydney boy's trial
Australia's richest man cleared of breaching media
laws
29 February 1999
Kurdish
protesters express outrage in Australia
15 January 1999
"Law and order" campaign in Australian state
election
Labor to abolish right to silence before criminal trials
7 January 1999
Protest
Australian government exclusion of Tamil socialist
6 January 1999
Tamil
socialist barred from visiting Australia
10 December 1998
New
attacks on the democratic rights of refugees
11 November 1998
Labor government boosts police powers
Sydney shooting sparks witchhunt against youth
10 November 1998
Labor
governments push debate about naming juveniles facing criminal
charges
22 October 1998
Video
reveals prison bashing in Australia
3 October 1998
Ten-year-old
charged with manslaughter in Australia
18 August 1998
Outrage
- and silence - over concentration camps for immigrants
26 June 1998
Political
police strengthened in Australian state
29 May 1998
Yet
another police killing in Australia
11 April 1998
Prison deaths soar in Australia
13 May 1998
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