BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — ALP member Ted Alexander won the 2001 Tasmania University Union presidential election by a landslide, capturing 59% of the vote. Promising to provide more free beer and improved services Alexander defeated Greens
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The Brick Kiln
the little boy squatted to pissin front of the huge mouth of the ovenhe was tired/of repaying the debthe was born/carrying the last obligationof his father/no more self-lostthan his son who in seven yearsdidn't wonder how many
BY KAREN FLETCHER
In the wake of the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington there has been pressure to cancel planned protests against the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane next month.
The CHOGM Action Network (CAN) has
BY BILL BRIGGS
While we are able to look at the past with the gift of hindsight and can acknowledge the mistakes made in the name of the struggle for socialism in this country and the world, it would be wrong to simply write off the generations of
REVIEW BY MAX WATTS
It is a simple, well-filmed story by Liz Thompson. During a war a man kills his near neighbour. After the war is over, the man is haunted by his deed. He feels deep regret and shame for what he has done. He seeks out the widow,
BY SEAN HEALY
Cuban President Fidel Castro has condemned the terrorist attacks on Washington, DC, and New York, but has warned that "there are possibly dangerous days ahead for the world" unless the government of George W Bush realises that "None
Refugees solidarity tour
ADELAIDE — Local supporters of the campaign for justice for asylum seekers will join the Free the Refugees Solidarity Tour to the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre on September 21. So far more than 100 have
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People's movements across the
BY LUKE FORMIATTI & SIMON BUTLER
BRISBANE — The Labor-controlled University of Queensland Student Union has taken drastic action to prevent students from organising against the US war drive.
After the University of Queensland Socialist Worker
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — The Northern Territory Labor Party said very little about mandatory sentencing during its successful August election campaign, and what it did say was highly confused. The only people who seemed to be saying that Labor
BY ALISON DELLIT
The thing about capitalist competition is that it tends to negate itself. Back in the 1980s, when the Hawke Labor government began de-regulating commercial aviation, we were promised great benefits from increased competition. When
ANU union elections
@box text intr = CANBERRA — The September 3-6 Students Association elections at the Australian National University were won by the ticket associated with the incumbent officials. The left-Labor controlled Education Action
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