Stuart Munckton

  • Protesters told Curtin 'worse than Woomera'

    CANBERRA — "I hope the staff inside have their pen and paper out because they have been seriously misinformed if they think that it is safe for Hazara refugees to return to Afghanistan", Refugee Action Collective (RAC) activist

  • National protest against abuse of refugees

    CANBERRA — With the Coalition government on the back foot over its refugee policies, activists from around Australia are planning to converge on Parliament House on February 12 to call for a more humane refugee policy. February

  • Resistance contests ANU elections

    CANBERRA — The socialist youth group Resistance will be contesting the Australian National University Student Association (SA) elections during the first week of September. Resistance is running for the positions of president,

  • Global revolt hits Canberra

    BY JAMES CAULFIELD & STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — They say that this city is the place where anything can happen and usually doesn't. But, for once, on May 1, it did happen: the global anti-capitalist revolt hit Canberra. Three hundred people

  • 'Refugees are welcome here!'

    CANBERRA — Chanting "Lock up Ruddock, free the refugees!", 30 people protested outside the National Press Club while immigration minister Philip Ruddock addressed journalists on the government-designated "Harmony Day", March

  • M1 Canberra to blockade Mining Industry House

    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

  • Should we fight capitalism or anti-capitalists?

    The Earth is becoming a nastier planet on which to live. The growing hole in the ozone layer, increased global warming and the wholesale destruction of the world's forests are evidence of this. Moreover, according to the World

  • S11 Alliance forms in Adelaide

    S11 Alliance forms in AdelaideADELAIDE — Activists here have formed an S11 Alliance to help organise protests against the World Economic Forum's Melbourne meeting in September. Activists from the Reclaim the Streets

  • Murdoch's racist hype

    By Diana Haywood-Rankine and Stuart Munckton ADELAIDE — South Australia's only daily newspaper, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Advertiser, ran a page-one story on January 15 headed, "Weapons of street war. Vietnamese gangs 'vicious and violent'". The

  • The tragedy and truth of a murder-suicide

    You have probably read about Barbara-Anne Wyrzykowski, the 25 year old who drove her five children, aged 18 months to eight years, to a deserted track just outside of Perth and gassed them and herself to death. The

  • How solidarity saves lives

    On the morning of July 5, Dita Sari, Indonesia's longest serving female political prisoner and a leading member of the People's Democratic Party (PRD), was released from prison. Dita, who was jailed for organising

  • Police reality check

    Police reality checkIf you are sick of the endless police dramas that fill our screens, whose primary function is to convince the working class that the police are good guys, then Irvine Welsh's novel Filth, published last