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Students boycott 'holding pens'
DARWIN — Postgraduate students at Charles Darwin University have launched protest action after more than 30 students were informed about their forced relocation to what the CDU Postgraduate Students'
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The Australian Greens are on the verge of a major breakthrough at the October 9 election. Green Left Weekly's Alex Bainbridge spoke with Greens leader Bob Brown about why this is the case and what it means for Australian politics.
Brown told GLW
As the federal election approaches (it may already be over by the time you read this), PM John Howard and federal Labor leader Mark Latham are engaged in a tricky fandango worthy of the ABC's Strictly Dancing. While dramatising each and every petty
The fully sovereign Iraqi government
"Earlier Wednesday, Iraqi justice ministry officials said they would release scientist Rihab Rashid Taha on bail because she was no longer a threat to national security. 'I was told by my minister that she would
Tim Gooden is the Socialist Alliance candidate for the Geelong seat of Corio. Green Left Weekly's Karen Fletcher spent a day with him on the campaign trail.
"You. Are. Fuckin. Kiddin. Aren't ya?" says Glen, covered in mud, leaning against his
The formidable figures of US President George Bush and his puppet-in-tow, PM John Howard, have appeared regularly after school on the busy Hume Highway near Yagoona Public School, imploring passers-by not to vote for the Howard government.From
A colleague of lawyer Julian Burnside decided to spend his own money printing and distributing 35,000 posters with the below design during the federal election campaign. A week after the posters (and payment) was accepted by Red Cap Distributors,
Graham Matthews, Socialist Alliance candidate for Batman, and Tony Iltis campaigning outside Preston Centrelink. Socialist Alliance calls for a halving of the $7 billion annual defence budget and for the savings to be spent on guaranteeing free
Nicole Hilder, Wollongong
On September 29, the Illawarra Socialist Alliance launched its health policy outside Wollongong Hospital, the same day as the Illawarra Mercury carried the front-page headline "Health shut-out: region's hospitals have
Federico Fuentes
Juan Choque, a 37-year-old cocalero (coca farmer) from the Chapare region in Bolivia was shot dead on September 28, while 19 others were injured in clashes with the military. The death came only three days after talks between
Eva Cheng
According to an article in the China-based Social Science Forum (issue #5, 2003), exorbitant fees charged by schools have compelled a number of students to take their own lives.
Zhang Yulin, deputy professor at the Nanjing Agriculture
In April 2004, students at Glenunga International High School in Adelaide set up the Student Activist Alliance. The SAA has since grown to include members from other high schools in Adelaide. Green Left Weekly's Melanie Coutman recently spoke to SAA
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