Sam Wainwright, Perth
In the February 26 Western Australian election, the Greens' representation in the Legislative Council (the upper house) dropped from five to two seats, while Labor increased its seats from 13 to 16. The Coalition also
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On March 14, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released the reports of its 66th session, including the judgement that New Zealand's Foreshore and Seabed Act was discriminatory because it extinguished native title over the
BRISBANE — On March 11, former NSW Builders Labourers Union secretary Jack Mundey addressed a meeting attended by 72 plumbers to discuss the Howard government's planned anti-union legislation.
Mundey told Green Left Weekly, "The important fight
BRISBANE — On March 12, 75 people crowded into the Terminus Hotel in South Brisbane to discuss the impact of the federal Coalition government's industrial relations agenda.
Organised by the newly formed Brisbane Labour History Association, the
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
SuperpatriotismBy Michael ParentiCity Lights Books 2004160 pages
Michael Parenti's latest book is an impassioned and eloquent essay on "superpatriotism", Parenti's term for the ideology of US free-market global capitalism.
Katelyn Mountford
If you followed only the "news" of the mainstream media in recent weeks, you might have been forgiven for assuming that the war on Iraq was over. Only one story was deemed important enough by the news editors of the Fairfax and
US deserters
Green Left Weekly #619, reports that at least "5500 US military personnel have deserted since the war started in Iraq". While it is good that this number of US troops have deserted, dodged call ups or refused orders, instead of
On March 24-28, Sydney will host one of the most significant gatherings of left-wing leaders from Asia and the Pacific in some years. The Third Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference is being attended by activists from the Philippines to Indonesia, from
Thousands of people rallied in cities and towns across Australia on March 18-20 to mark the second anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The protests demanded that PM John Howard reverse his decision to send more Australian troops to Iraq,
Andrew Martin& Lynda Hansen, Brisbane
On March 7, 180 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union delegates, activists and officials met to discuss the AMWU's response to the anti-union industrial "reforms" that the Howard government plans to push
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