Lisa Macdonald

  • Conferences herald socialist renewal in Australia

    More than 700 people around the country turned out for the Marxist Educational Conferences, Campaigning for Democratic Socialism, held in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth over the Easter weekend. Not since the early

  • Perth activists to discuss strategies

    Activists from the environment, women's, solidarity and workers' rights movements will be gathering at a Marxist Education Conference in Perth over the Easter weekend, April 15-17. This conference, the first of its kind in

  • Major parties vote themselves another $15 million

    Two weeks ago, the ALP, Coalition and Australian Democrats voted themselves a windfall totalling over $15 million. The Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1994, passed by the Senate on March 30, was a deal

  • NSW elections a blow to the major parties

    SYDNEY — The people of NSW gave a decisive thumbs down to "politics as usual" in the state election on March 25. The 1.5% swing away from the Liberal-National Coalition, the fact that the ALP just managed to limp over the

  • Having a say isn't easy

    Having a say isn't easyThe lengths to which politicians will go to make it as difficult as possible for people to express their will at the polling booth was revealed in all its absurdity during the NSW state elections.

  • Rally to save the forests!

    In direct response to the battle over the federal government's woodchip export licences decision, the environment movement will be back on the streets of most of the nation's capitals over the next two weeks. The plans for

  • Jobs and forests: how to save both

    The blockade of Parliament House in Canberra by 4000 timber workers has narrowed the terms of the export woodchipping licence debate to a question of "jobs versus environment". Yet all of the available information on employment

  • Anti-woodchipping campaign gathers momentum

    Anger and disgust are growing over the Keating government's expansion of woodchipping in Australia's vanishing old growth forests. After recommendations by federal environment minister John Faulkner that the 1995 renewal

  • Democratic Socialists to contest NSW elections

    SYDNEY — The Democratic Socialist Electoral League (DSEL) has announced that it will be standing at least two candidates in the NSW state elections in March 1995. Karen Fletcher, a well-known feminist and previous

  • Reclaiming feminism for all women

    We were looking forward to going to a Reclaim the Night march in Sydney. After all, last year's march was a great success. While there had been relatively little advertising, up to 6000 women of all

  • Memorial lecture well attended

    Memorial lecture well attendedSYDNEY — Eighty people braved unusually cold and rainy weather to attend the 1994 Jim Percy Memorial Lecture here on October 18. The lecture, given by Dick Nichols from the

  • Environment lobbyists meet in Sydney

    SYDNEY — More than 200 people gathered at Sydney University on August 27 to participate in an "Environment in Crisis Conference" convened by the Nature Conservation Council (NCC) of NSW. The conference brought together