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Green Left Weekly issue #775, 19 November 2008
Seeds of Dissent 2009 calendar launch

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE — Community radio station 3CR has released its fundraising Seeds of Dissent 2009 calendar. The theme for the 2009 calendar is “political poster art”. » Habib’s shocking tale

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA NEWCASTLE — On November 9, 40 people attended the launch of My Story by Mamdouh Habib and co-author Julia Collingwood. » Kmart locks out workers

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA SYDNEY — Workers at Kmart’s Huntingwood distribution centre in Sydney’s west were locked out by the company for two days from November 10. The workers — members of the National Union of Workers (NUW) — had just completed a four-day strike in pursuit of a new enterprise barga... » Preference deal a joke

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE — The ALP have done a preference deal with the “joke” candidate for the Maribyrnong council elections. Former mayor and ALP incumbent Michael Clarke has preferenced Garth Bray, an independent. » Sandgate feels the power of community

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA BRISBANE — More than 30 people attended a November 8 Green Left Weekly screening of The Power of Community — How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, at Sandgate Community Centre. » Mulrunji, Wotton struggle continues

AUSTRALIA The family of Palm Island Aboriginal man Lex Wotton say they are relieved he did not get a life sentence and they will not be mounting an appeal against his six-year jail sentence. However, there has been widespread questioning of the discrepancy in the “justice” received by Wotton and white sen... » ‘We love free speech’ campaign defies ban

AUSTRALIA SYDNEY — On November 10, a Sydney City Council ban on bill postering came into effect — and was immediately defied. » Activist faces jail threat

AUSTRALIA Sean Pickard, an Indigenous rights activist, has been threatened with jail for non-payment of fines imposed as a result of convictions on five counts of “failing to produce a ticket” on Melbourne’s privatised public transport system. » Church faces axe for progressive stand

AUSTRALIA St Mary’s church in South Brisbane has been threatened with excommunication if it maintains progressive practices that have the overwhelming support of the parish and community. » Eco-activists: Wollongong Public Transport Coalition

AUSTRALIA Green Left Weekly’s Chris Williams interviewed Tim Dobson from the Wollongong Public Transport Coalition (WPTC). » Flying the socialist flag

AUSTRALIA The challenges, opportunities and responsibilities that socialists face today are huge. » How we can stop Rees’s privatisation plans

AUSTRALIA The NSW mini-budget on November 11 is a full-on assault on public services and the public ownership of major assets in NSW. » NSW police: hunting gay men at beats

AUSTRALIA Beats are a toilet or park where men gather to have consensual, casual sex. » Residents organise against job cuts at Victoria University

AUSTRALIA More than 200 people, including local residents, packed a community hall in Footscray on November 6 to protest vice-chancellor (VC) Liz Harman’s announcement that 270 Victoria University (VU) staff will face the chop, most before Christmas. » Social and community workers call for fair pay

AUSTRALIA Hundreds of community workers and members of the social and community services (SACS) division of the Queensland Services Union (QSU) rallied on November 10 outside the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC). » Trial of the Goulburn Nine

AUSTRALIA The Goulburn Nine were arrested in November 2005 in Sydney, as were the Barwon 13 in Melbourne. A big deal was made about them being the first local terrorist groups in Australia to face trial under the draconian new “anti-terror” laws. » Villawood hunger strike

AUSTRALIA From November 8-10 at least 135 detainees in Villawood Immigration Detention Centre refused to take any food or water. The hunger strike was suspended when the Immigration Department gave in to the strikers’ demand for consultation. » War and peace

AUSTRALIA On Armistice Day, November 11, anti-war protesters marked the end of the war that was supposed to end all wars with “troops out” banners and placards outside the US consulate. Sydney Stop the War Coalition (STWC) is campaigning for all Australian troops to leave Iraq and Afghanistan. » Thousands ‘walk against warming’

On November 15, thousands of people took to the streets across Australia to demand that governments take much more urgent and serious action to stop the global warming that is threatening life on Earth. »


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