Keep our coasts public!
Alan Davison (Write On, Green Left Weekly #572) claims factual errors in previous reports on opposition to Australand's proposed "Port Coogee" development. As "proof", he points out that the section of beach where the
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MELBOURNE — On February 20, Socialist Alliance activists picketed the Maribyrnong Detention Centre to highlight the plight of female detainees.
Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Gellibrand, Linda Waldron told Green Left Weekly, "Many
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Rohan Pearce
On March 18, 2003, Prime Minister John Howard announced in federal parliament: "The government has now authorised our defence forces, which were predeployed to the [Persian] Gulf to acclimatise and contribute to the campaign to
Simon Tayler, Sydney
Community TV Sydney's broadcasting licence is currently up for renewal with the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA). Community TV Sydney manages the programming and broadcasting for Sydney's community television station,
Separate is not equal. That's the message of the gay civil rights movement that has burst forth across the US, inspired by the fight for the right of gays and lesbians to marry. Elizabeth Schulte, Steve Trussell and Sherry Wolf report.
Thousands of
"Our players are innocent" screamed the front page of Rupert Murdoch's Sydney Daily Telegraph on February 26. The accompanying article was about the alleged gang rape of a Coffs Harbour woman by up to six players from the Canterbury Bulldogs rugby
Doug Lorimer
Candidates considered loyal to Iran's conservative clerical rulers regained control of the Majlis, the country's parliament, in an undemocratic election held on February 20. They have won at least 156 places in the 290-seat
Eva Cheng
Some 2000 workers and their retired counterparts from the Tieshu textile factory in Suizhou, Hubei province, staged an angry protest on February 8 denouncing the now-defunct plant's management for cheating workers of savings and benefits.
Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
Prominent consumers' rights advocate Ralph Nader's decision to stand in the November US presidential election as an independent is freaking out Democratic Party and its liberal and leftist hangers-on. While claiming to
GEELONG — On February 24, 30 members of four trade unions attended an emergency meeting called to discuss a defence campaign for Craig Johnston, former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
Johnston goes to trial in
Michael Bull, Melbourne
Since its first meeting on February 10, the Defend Craig Johnston Committee has planned a range of activities to defend the former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).
Johnston is
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