GLW issue 646, published 2005-10-26.

Peace group forum

SYDNEY - A Western Sydney Peace and Community Group public forum at Rooty Hill on October 17 explained how ordinary people will be affected by the federal government's proposed new "anti-terror" laws. Cameron Murphy from the NSW Council of Civil

Labor bans brothels

Alex Bainbridge, Hobart After years of advocating for a bill to legalise brothels, the state government announced on October 5 that it would amend draft legislation to instead ban brothels outright. The new legislation was passed by Tasmania's

Write On: Letters to the Editor

Anti-terrorism law In the Howard government's proposed anti-terrorism law, clauses in schedule 4 of the draft bill defines which family members could be contacted by someone in preventative detention and includes same-sex partners in the definition

Union rights are civil rights

Chris Slee, Melbourne "Union rights are civil rights was the theme of an October 12 public meeting organised by the Socialist Alliance at the Victorian Trades Hall bar. Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union legal officer Jesse

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Australian News

Protesters return to 'save the Weld'

Alex Bainbridge, Hobart Six months after they forced Forestry Tasmania to promise a six-month moratorium on logging and road construction in the Weld Valley, protesters have returned to make sure the forests are saved. The Weld Valley, a

Protest against abuses in Western Sahara

SYDNEY — On October 20, the Australia Western Sahara Association held a protest outside NSW Parliament House, addressed by, among others, the Polisario representative in Australia and AWSA president Nick O'Neill. Unions NSW secretary John Robertson

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International News

NIGERIA: US$12.4 billion to world's richest countries

On October 20, Nigeria reached an agreement with the rich, creditor countries of the Paris Club for the cancellation of US$18 billion of Nigeria's US$35.9 billion debt. However, in return, Nigeria had to commit to paying the Paris Club $12.4 billion,

INDONESIA: TNI uses Bali bombing to reassert political role

James Balowski, Jakarta Attending a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Indonesian military (TNI) on October 5, just days after the deadly bombing in Bali, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono instructed the TNI to "take part in effectively

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Cultural Dissent

Jane Fonda and the role of the accident in history

BY MAX WATTS Georgi Plekhanov, a Russian who translated Karl Marx's writings and introduced them to Lenin, wrote a lot about the role of the individual, or the accident, in history. He thought that at certain times when the "masses" moved,

Freedom's Champion - for you who live in hope

Innocents skip hand in hand in pleasure's garden,seeking out love's bloom and pulling the weedsof jealousy from the field of hope.But wait, my thigh is bleeding, I am wounded,struck down by the vicious rumour of pain.My life force drains away. There

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