By Anthony Brown
BRISBANE — Lost in all the rhetoric of the federal election, an important event occurred at Griffith University here in mid-February. On February 18, 50 people, representing some 220 of south-east Queensland's local
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By Norm Dixon
Women attempting to celebrate International Women's Day in Labasa, on the smaller of Fiji's two main islands, Vanua Levu, had their permission to march revoked by the district officer. The Labasa Women's Forum (LWF), had earlier
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) based in Chiapas, Mexico, has issued a call for an international conference from July 27 to August 3, the "First Intercontinental Gathering For Humanity and Against Neo-liberalism".
It has also
By Michel Fiant
[This editorial, from the weekly newspaper of Alternative Rouge et Verte, follows a spate of round-ups and expulsions of North Africans in France. Translation for Green Left Weekly by Brendan Doyle.) The government informs us
Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm.
Movie: The Rat Saviour (1976) — Set in a central
By Fiona Passmore
WOLLONGONG — On March 20, students at Wollongong University attended a Resistance forum on the theme "East Timor: Freedom Now!". A key issue raised in the discussion was the Australian government's tacit support for the
By Ita Breduauer
BRISBANE — The March 28 national day of action against voluntary student unionism here will begin at noon in King George Square, with a march to Parliament House. There will also be live entertainment on the Kidney Lawn at
"Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount." — George Bernard Shaw
Ms Stewart was very near despairing as she looked out of the window because she had no food and because she had only 25 cents left. She was
By Iggy Kim
Racial categories are purely social — founded not on biological realities, but on objectively meaningless and arbitrarily selected physical traits, such as skin colour. Racial categorisation fetishises these features and
Hysterical Women: A collection of 100 Australian feminist cartoonsEdited by Annie Goldflam, Denise Morgan and Ruth GrebleWomen's Electoral Lobby (WA), 1993Reviewed by Jenny Long This collection, put together by WEL (WA) with the support of other
New Zealand unions
Eva Cheng's review of Jane Kelsey's Economic Fundamentalism (GLW #223) thankfully draws attention to the lie that many here claim to be the New Zealand miracle. However, the accompanying photo might give the impression to
It didn't take long for new treasurer Peter Costello to sound the lament, as every incoming government now does, about the cupboard being bare. We've been told by the treasurer that there is an underlying deficit of $7.6 billion. Not that this
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