BY CHRIS LATHAM
PERTH — On August 11, the Australian Education Union's Western Australian branch executive announced that a half-day strike is to be held on September 17. The strike will intensify the AEU's industrial campaign to win a new
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BY KAREN FLETCHER
MELBOURNE — The 2003 Melbourne Writers Festival will open on August 21 with a keynote address by Tariq Ali, the radical London-based author of the anti-imperialist bestseller The Clash of Fundamentalisms.
Ali's address, "War,
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Forest activist Neil Smith, known as "Hector the Protector" for his role in the 1998 campaign to save forest around Mother Cummings Peak in northern Tasmania, faces jail for refusing to pay a $5000 fine.
Smith told
MELBOURNE — Three months after Socialist Alliance's second national conference, which decided that the alliance should move toward becoming a multitendency socialist party, Green Left Weekly's GRAHAM MATTHEWS, a Victorian co-convenor of the
WASHINGTON — Galvanised to action by US President George Bush's inane and reckless "Bring 'em on" challenge to the Iraqis who are resisting the US occupation of their country, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans for Peace and other organisations
The Australian-funded detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island first opened on October 21, 2001. The first group of Iraqi asylum seekers to arrive there were dismayed to find they had been tricked into thinking they were being taken to Australia.
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — Progressive activists won a victory on August 12, when the Sunshine Magistrates Court dismissed charges against Socialist Alliance activist Tony Iltis.
Iltis was charged with distributing leaflets for an anti-war
BY PETER DWYER
DURBAN — On August 8, in a move described as a "backflip" by the mainstream press, South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) government announced that it had instructed the department of health to develop a plan to provide
BY LEX WINDSOR
AUCKLAND — The international solidarity movement for West Papua met in Otara, Tamaki Makaurau, on August 8-10. The gathering called on the government leaders who constitute the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to remember the unresolved
Become a Friend of Green Left Weekly today! In March, as US President George Bush and his gang prepared to invade Iraq, <http://www.greenleft.org.au> was the third most visited web site by Australians looking for information about the
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE — The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been called in to investigate procedure at Newcastle University, after 15 off-shore Malaysian students were accused of plagiarism whilst enrolled at the
BY MARCUS PABIAN
MELBOURNE — On August 12, 3000 people rallied outside the Treasury building to support the community services sector in the face of funding cuts proposed by Premier Steve Bracks' state Labor government.
Disabled people were out
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