Emma Murphy

  • Venezuelan student tour inspires activists

    Hundreds of people around Australia have attended meetings featuring Alvaro Guzman, the national director of the Venezuelan Bolivarian Student Front. Guzman began a national speaking tour with a meeting in Hobart on September 8,

  • 'Dry zone' laws are racist

    ADELAIDE — The August 13 City Messenger ran a front-page article that supported abandoning "dry zone" by-laws in the South Australian capital's city centre. In the article, the Catholic Church's vicar-general Monsignor David

  • Who is failing Indigenous Australians?

    For many non-Indigenous Australians, the mainstream press' coverage of Indigenous affairs is where we learn most about Aboriginal Australians. It's no surprise, therefore, that our society suffers from a high level of racism &#151

  • Solidarity and defiance in the desert

    BAXTER — After months of planning, on April 18-20 up to 800 people from across Australia converged on the Baxter detention centre outside Port Augusta, to protest against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and show

  • Adelaide says 'No' to the bloodshed

    ADELAIDE — On hearing US President George Bush's declaration of imminent war on March 18, 500 people flocked to Parliament House at 5pm. The spontaneous crowd was passionate, loud, and articulate in its outright rejection of the

  • Indigenous leaders oppose war

    The February 5 edition of the National Indigenous Times featured a cover article profiling Indigenous leaders who have spoken out against Prime Minister John Howard's support for war on Iraq. The anti-war leaders the Times had

  • Adelaide's largest ever anti-war demo

    ADELAIDE — The massive turn-out here for the February 16 anti-war march astounded everybody. The organisers of the rally, the NO WAR coalition, estimate that 100,000 people took part. Even the police reckon 70,000 were there.

  • A war 'for the rich' opposed

    BY LESLIE RICHMOND & EMMA MURPHY ADELAIDE — Around 2000 people attended a November 30 anti-war protest, representing a broad cross-section of Australians. Contingents had been organised by Quakers, the Greens, the Construction, Forestry, Mining

  • 'Don't go to war for Packer'

    ADELAIDE &#151 On October 29, around 100 people attended a public meeting in Adelaide organised by the Network Opposing War and Racism. The meeting was chaired by ABC radio personality Julia Lester. David Palmer, senior lecturer in

  • Coroner investigates petrol sniffing crisis

    On September 6, a report was released from a coronial inquest held in May and June into three petrol-sniffing related deaths between 1999-2001 in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands. The coroner found that, in all three cases, "the

  • NOWSA: setting the agenda

    By Emma Murphyand Virginia Brown MELBOURNE — On February 22, the Network Of Women Students Australia collective (NOWSA) decided that the plenary sessions for the July conference would be: Women and capitalism; Exploring different feminisms;

  • Historic houses threatened

    Historic houses threatenedMELBOURNE — The planners for Melbourne University Private — an annexe of Melbourne University reserved the rich — have announced the demolition of 18 National Trust-listed terrace houses in Carlton.