Bruce Marlowe, Sydney
Seeing Red, the new magazine of social, political and cultural dissent recently initiated by the Socialist Alliance, is going through its launch phase. Last week the magazine "blasted off" in four east coast cities — Sydney,
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Kids make more sense than Vanstone
MELBOURNE — David Glanz, Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Wills, has spoken out in defence of children at Brunswick East Primary School who wrote to the government to criticise its
Sarah Stephen
On April 26, a team of Australian lawyers, including prominent Melbourne QC Julian Burnside and solicitor Eric Vadarlis, planned to challenge in a Nauruan court the legality of visas issued to 252 asylum seekers to keep them in
An April Morgan Poll shows that on a two-party preferred basis, voter support for the federal ALP is at 54.5%, while support for the federal Coalition parties is trailing behind at 45.5%.
On these figures, it seems likely that Prime Minister John
Nick Everett, Canberra
More than 60 people rallied outside the Israeli embassy on May 1, including supporters of Australians for Justice and Peace in Palestine and a delegation of Palestine solidarity activists from Sydney.
Anglican bishop of
The severe oppression of women in Afghanistan suddenly became a issue when Washington decided to invade the country in 2001. But how much has improved? According to human rights activist Dr Nazir Gul, a former UN officer in Kabul, Afghan women are
Unequal Treatment: what you don't know about how women are mistreated by the medical communityBy Eileen Nechas and Denise FoleySimon and Schuster, 1994232 pages, US$19.80
REVIEW BY RACHEL EVANS
Unequal Treatment exposes a medical system that
On February 27 we had a meeting with a senior DIMIA [Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs] officer, and we [were] told that DIMIA will find [a solution to] our problem within two months.
Now, the two months have
SYDNEY — On May 1, 100 people attended a Skilled Six campaign fundraiser at the Gaelic Club. The Faigans, Denis Kevans and the Solidarity Choir perfomed. Melbourne Skilled Six campaign activist Simon Miller addressed the gathering along with other
Shua Garfield, Hobart
Sixty people heard Cecilio Freitas, chair of East Timor People's Action, and Greens senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle speak at an April 26 forum on "oil and self-determination: Iraq and East Timor". The meeting was organised
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