NTEU campaign against homophobia
BALLARAT — After the University of Ballarat endorsed a student contingent at the 2002 Pride March, two public emails were sent by staff members condemning "sexual perversion".
Although the NTEU responded with a
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Resistance activists summonsed
MELBOURNE — Two members of the socialist youth group Resistance have been summonsed to appear in court in late May for "trespassing" while attempting to visit hunger-striking refugees at the Maribyrnong detention
BY TAMARA PEARSON
A new representation of Africa is emerging — Africa, the innocent, hopeless, starving child with big eyes pleading for our help.
One of the main propagators of this image is World Vision, a Christian relief organisation. After
BY EVA CHENG
More than 10 million workers across India took part in a general
strike on April 16. The action was taken to resist the anti-worker, neo-liberal
offensive being waged by the Indian government and to oppose the diktats
of the
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — More than 2000 people marched for Palestine on April 20, in a protest mobilising much of the Palestinian community in Melbourne.
"I am angry", Rarda Abdel Fatah, speaking on behalf of Young Palestinian Women, told the
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Unions Tasmania organised the inaugural cross-union delegates' conference, attended by 215 people on April 19. A large majority of the participants were workplace delegates rather than union officials or organisers.
GLW #488 incorrectly reported that at a Brisbane public forum on April 5, Fernando Duque, Oceania representative of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, had stimated that the illegal US 42-year trade embargo had cost Cuba "US$60
Immovable
"The Palestinian leader is seen to be just as immovable as his Israeli opposite." — ABC correspondent Jill Colgan, 7.30 Report, April 15, after earlier noting that "Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been held under siege by Israeli
BY SOPHIA ZIELINSKA
PERTH — Why do we have to destroy a marine paradise just to build a giant man-made paddle pool for the elite? This is the question many ask about a proposal to build a tourist resort a short swim away from Ningaloo Reef.
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — Four drug law reform advocates handed themselves into the Darwin Local Police Office on April 12 to raise awareness of the Northern Territory Labor government's proposed "drug house" legislation.
The four activists,
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