Rob Miller

  • Rallies to free the refugees

    MELBOURNE — More than 500 people attended a protest called by the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) outside the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs on January 24. Many city workers attended the lunchtime rally to

  • Yallourn Energy escalates anti-worker crusade

    MELBOURNE — In its latest attempt to crush unions, Yallourn Energy is once again attempting to provoke a dispute that will threaten power supplies in Victoria, this time by walking away from an in-principle agreement reached with

  • ISRAEL: A terrorist success story

    If there was an Academy Awards ceremony for terrorism, Israel would sweep every category — and every acceptance speech would have to thank the government of United States, whose generous support has made Israel the most successful

  • Two new branches for Socialist Alliance

    MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance continues to expand with a new branch set up on June 28 in the federal electorate of Melbourne. Attended by 50 people, the Melbourne meeting brought together activists from a wide variety of

  • 'War criminal' running Israel

    BY JO BROWN & ROB MILLER MELBOURNE — The international community had to recognise that a war criminal was now prime minister of Israel and act accordingly, a March 30 public meeting here in support of Palestinian freedom has been told. Academic

  • What strategy for the student movement?

    With students around the country facing course closures and cut backs, extra fees and charges, and less support services, there is an urgent need for a campaign to end these particular attacks and reverse the

  • Corporatising TAFE

    While the technical and further education system has always tried to meet the skill needs of industry, it has balanced this role with a commitment to the social and educational needs of the wider community. In the past few years,

  • Education should be free: Increase funding now!

    With the ALP federal government planning to cut expenditure, funding for higher education is under further threat. The preparations for further cutbacks began in 1994 with the commissioning of reports on "Resource Allocation in

  • Coode Island time bomb still ticking

    Coode Island time bomb still tickingMELBOURNE — Greenpeace and the Hazardous Materials Action Group (HAZMAG) highlighted the third anniversary of the Coode Island fires on August 22 by releasing a leaked government risk

  • From ivory towers to degree factories

    The media have become fond of comparing university students today with their counterparts in the '60s and early '70s and concluding that students now are much more conservative. This is usually explained by the inane "the '60s were

  • The real threat to peace in the Middle East

    If you believe the "mainstream" media, the Palestine Liberation Organisation has irretrievably blotted its copybook by supporting Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, while a peace-loving Israel exercised admirable restraint by not retaliating