The new #UnitedIreland campaign has released the video below, narrated by actor Irish actor John Connors. The video says it is time to build a new, democratic, inclusive and United Ireland.
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'It's time for a new, democratic, inclusive, equal and united Ireland,' campaigners say in new video
Colin O'Brien
Colin O'Brien died in early September. Colin had been an apprentice chef and a member of Resistance and the Socialist Workers Party in Sydney in the early 1980s.
He worked in Europe for a number of years before
Circus protest
By Stephen Bull
ADELAIDE — About 100 animal rights supporters braved the rain and wind at Bonython Park on October 1 to protest against the use of animals in circuses. Animal Liberation used the occasion of the
By Max Lane
Already last month in Jakarta, the Suharto dictatorship had increased surveillance and repression in the lead-up to the coming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) heads of state meeting. When visiting human rights,
Remember them?
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Miners threaten strike over Moura claims
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By Norm Dixon
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Poem: Fist
By Connie Frazer
Because Grandma
grew old twiddling
thumbs, hands clasped, eight
fingers locked together neat
as a carpentry join;
thumbs barrelling round
and round, over and
over
By Paul Burns
BRISBANE — Queensland hospitals are in a state of turmoil, with the state government refusing to release funds to alleviate chronic under-staffing.
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How Are We To Live?
By Peter Singer
Text Publishing. $24.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
It's been one helluva century! No sooner are we free of the placenta than we are sentenced to our role in history. But what does it all
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