BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — After looking at the Socialist Alliance's priority pledges for the July 20 Tasmanian elections, several of my workmates made comments such as "that would be nice if it were possible, but you could never fund promises
500
BY SUE BOLTON& ALISON DELLIT
While the majority of Green Left Weekly's readers live in Australia's capital cities, during the last 10 years, the paper's distribution has expanded into a number of regional centres.
GLW is now distributed in Alice
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG & MARCEL CAMERON
BRISBANE — Despite the state ALP government's attempts to undermine the Queensland Nurses Union's (QNU) stop-work rally at Parliament House on July 12, more than 3000 angry public and private sector nurses
Except on Mondays
"It is not a policy of this coalition to target innocents, nor would it ever be to target innocents" — Lieutenant General Dan McNeill, US commander of allied forces in Afghanistan, July 6, after acknowledging that US warplanes
BY EVA CHENG
Even before news of the latest corporate scams exploded in late June, the London-based Economist on May 18 published a 20-page defence of capitalism. The article began with the claim that "the capitalist system has proved surprisingly
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY The proceedings have been more like a prosecution of the
union than a genuine investigation of the building industry This was
how Andrew Ferguson, secretary of the NSW Construction, Forestry, Mining
and
This message of condolence and solidarity was sent to the Worker Communist Parties of Iran and Iraq following the death of Mansoor Hekmat.
Dear comrades, the members of the Democratic Socialist Party of Australia extend our sincere condolences to
BY EMMA CLANCY
PERTH — Murdoch University hosted the 2002 Students and Sustainability Conference, held July 7-13. The conference was attended by around 500 students, there to learn about and discuss environmental and human rights campaigns.
Hell Stirs in HeavenBy Anita Caratelliself-published, Melbourne, 2001$25, order at <acspecials@yahoo.com>
REVIEWED BY CHRIS SLEE
Most Australians are only vaguely aware of the Torres Straits islands. Most have heard of Eddie Mabo, the
BY NORM DIXON
Residents in Mandela Park, Khayelitsha (near Cape Town), rebelled on July 8 in response to a raid by police and municipal officials. Community anger boiled over when a council sheriff attempted to repossess an elderly pensioner's
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — The federal government's "Pacific solution" is likely to be become the "Christmas Island solution" when a 1200-bed detention centre is finished there in March 2003, Anne Coombs, from Rural Australians for Refugees (RAR),
BY STACEY BRENNAN & EWAN SAUNDERS
BRISBANE — The National Union of Students (NUS) National Education Conference, held July 5-7, was attended by 400 students. An endorsement of the campus refugee sanctuary campaign as "an idea worthy of further
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