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GLAM comes out at Mardi Gras

BY ZANNY BEGG SYDNEY — Fred Nile's prayers for rain may have been answered but his prayers to halt this year's Mardi Gras were not. Between 400,000 and 500,000 people lined Oxford Street to watch the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.

INDIA: Campaign against globalisation

Various left forces and progressive activists in India are planning to launch a National Campaign Against Globalisation in New Delhi on March 21-23. An appeal for attendance at a conference, to be held over the three days to coincide the launch,

A double indictment

The Bogus WomanBy Kay AdsheadPerformer: Noma DumezweniBush Theatre, London REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS Detention of refugees, and their resistance to the inhumane situation in which this places them, is not confined to Australia. England also has

'Opportunity cost'

$1.2 billion: One day's trading on the Australian Stock Exchange. $1 billion: The amount needed to restore public funding of higher education in Australia to pre-1990 levels. US$35.5 billion: One day's trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Protest targets McHypocrisy

ADELAIDE — McDonald's decision to sponsor this year's Clean Up Australia Day came under attack here on March 4, when 30 people protested outside the multinational's Rundle Mall store in protest at its hypocrisy. Representatives of the S11

Write On

Socialist Alliance and the PLP — 1 Your reporting on the Socialist Alliance and position of leading members of the PLP in Sydney and Canberra was ambiguous and created a false impression. In Canberra there is, so far, no Socialist Alliance and

Sydney M1 activists plan conference

BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — In what will be the broadest left conference held in this city for many years, activists from the growing anti-corporate movement and a wide range of local campaigns will gather at the University of Technology's Markets

Global revolt on campus

BY KEARA COURTNEY CANBERRA — The capitalist system wasn't unable to meet the needs of the majority of people, it was unwilling to, the Democratic Socialist Party's Max Lane told a forum held at the Australian National University here on March 7.

BHP Coal faces protest as campaign continues

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — BHP Coal's head office here faces a protest by anti-corporate activists on March 16, who will act in solidarity with the struggle by BHP coalminers in central Queensland. As part of a campaign to expose "corporate

New refugee detention centre planned

BY DOD ROSHANBIN BRISBANE — Ross Daniels of Amnesty International told a public meeting here on March 1 that a 200-inmate immigration detention centre is planned for a yet to be revealed Brisbane site. Daniels also said that the federal ALP's

M1 Canberra to blockade Mining Industry House

BY STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — After much debate over some months, the M1 Alliance here has decided to organise a peaceful blockade outside Mining Industry House, rather than join the blockade at the Sydney stock exchange. The decision was taken

Meeting backs Yallourn power workers

BY TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — Two hundred and fifty people packed Trades Hall on March 8 to discuss the struggle of the Latrobe Valley power workers against attempts by Yallourn Energy and other privatised electricity corporations to slash jobs,