RMIT occupiers speak
Ray Fulcher, Green Left Weekly's correspondent in the occupation, asked some of the students why they were taking this action. Anya: Fees are fucked. The government's only function should be to structure the needs and the
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By Nick Soudakoff
CANBERRA — More than 200 people attended the Strategies Against Racism forum at the Workers Club in Canberra on August 23. The forum, coordinated by the Council for Civil Liberties of the ACT, the Ethnic Communities Council
Taxi drivers jailed for carrying foreigners
GERMANY â It sounds like a bitter joke on the racist German juridical system, but it actually happened. Two taxi-drivers have been sentenced to 16 month's and 22 months' jail for transporting
Comment by Peter Robson
Student unionism is vital to the protection of students' rights and education standards. For a union to be truly effective, it must be active and capable of voicing student opinions, and it has to be democratic. It's
By Amanda Lawrence
CANBERRA — More than 1000 students attended a vocal rally on August 27 to protest against staff cuts at the Australian National University. The rally was addressed by speakers from the National Tertiary Education and
Is there a God?
Some thinkers — all locals, all of them conservative, some unruly — have confessed to discerning a striking resemblance between John Howard and the pope.
True, resemblances, there are. Both have other names. The
Rio Tinto's brutal pedigree
By Mick Watson
It is no coincidence that the onslaught on Australian coal miners' rights and conditions is being led by the multinational Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto is demanding that its unionised work force surrender
By Dave Wright
Just how does someone join Pauline Hanson's One Nation party? Is it a trial by ordeal perhaps? Or do you have to publicly swear that you have never been a Communist, a homosexual, Asian, Aboriginal, a Muslim or a Jew while singing
Not so dandy
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Bill Hutson ... has been a dandy sheriff for almost a quarter of a century. He is an old mountain boy and he loves bluegrass music. He would make a dandy governor." — Herman Allen Some readers
By Penny Glass
BRISBANE — Teatro de los Elementos (Theatre of the Elements), founded in 1991, is a community theatre company that works in central Cuba at Cumanayagua in Cienfuegos province. Through its work, communities isolated from urban