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By Russell Carr TOWNSVILLE — I am the northern district organiser of the AMIEU (meatworkers union) and have written this article to explain the story of the struggle against live cattle exports in north Queensland. While our union has always
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By Lisa Macdonald The world today is dominated by the fact that, despite human beings' capacity for rational thought, our society is thoroughly irrational. The issue of nuclear weapons provides a good example. Society has developed and harnessed a
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Anti-nuke demo at Chinese consulate MELBOURNE — The Chinese consulate refused to accept an anti-nuclear protest letter from 30 activists here on August 23. The rally, organised by Greenpeace and the Australian Conservation Foundation, blocked
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By Lisa Macdonald With this issue, Green Left Weekly turns 200. This is a tremendous achievement, one we hardly dared to forecast with confidence four and a half years ago. Like all projects that dare to be different, there have been times
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Congratulations on your 200th issue! A special vote of appreciation for the ongoing and excellent coverage of events in East Timor and in Indonesia. The struggle for self-determination and human rights in East Timor, and for democracy and
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By Gerry Harant The story goes that some years ago, when Graham Richardson was still the ALP's chief numbers man and head-kicker, he was asked, on one of the numerous occasions when the ALP leaders had again ignored the wishes of the party's
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By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — Premier Jeff Kennett's dream of a privatised Victoria moved one step closer to reality on August 7, with the announcement of the sale of the first of Victoria's energy suppliers. United Energy, one of the five
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How serious is the greenhouse effect? By Dr Bob Hunter At a meeting in Berlin earlier this year to review progress on the response of the developed nations to the greenhouse problem, Australia came in for some heavy criticism. That
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By Jennifer Thompson The federal Liberal Party's election campaign has begun with John Howard delivering two of six "headland" speeches and launching an attack on Labor's economic management. But despite Howard's attempt at image
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By Bernard Wunsch BRISBANE — Independence in the Pacific was the theme of a forum organised by the socialist youth organisation Resistance on the University of Queensland on August 17. The guest speaker was Junior Hakaoro, a Cook Island
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By Lisa Macdonald "There has been mounting evidence in the international arena of Australia siding with corporate interests against initiatives to promote ecological sustainability, social justice and world peace", according to WA Greens
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More than Jane Roe Abortion rights and wrongs US citizen Norma McCorvey has "found God". In the ordinary course of events, individuals change their minds about their religious and political outlooks every day. This can work both ways. For
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Thinking of you, Amelia "The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal ... [then] belch, and it wouldn't remind you of anything." — Redd Foxx Sensory deprivation can cause unusual, even strange, responses. Prisoners are among the
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By Ben Reid MELBOURNE — Members of the East Timorese community and their supporters from around Australia gathered here on August 12 and 13 for a solidarity conference organised by the East Timor Relief Association. Reverend Bishop Hilton
News
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Democracy in Indonesia conference MELBOURNE — Several hundred people attended a Democracy in Indonesia Conference organised by Community Aid Abroad on August 18-19. The keynote speaker was Indonesian academic George Aditjondro, who called on
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Some concern "I have some concerns, particularly as some of the changes they [banks] have made are actually contrary to the recommendations in our report." — Dr David Cousins, head of the Prices Surveillance Authority, when banks raised fees
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By Michael Tardif Students took to the streets on August 24 to protest against the federal government's attacks on education. The actions were initially proposed at a noªfees demonstration in Canberra in May. In Adelaide, Emma Webb from the
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By Sally Mitchell DARWIN After two months of negotiations which ended in a deadlock, on August 25 Power and Water Authority unions took their wages dispute with the government to the Industrial Relations Commission. Work bans have been
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By Margaret Allan NEWCASTLE The Greens have announced their candidates for the September 9 elections for the City Council. Apart from the ALP, the Greens are the only political party to stand candidates in all of the wards. Three quarters
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By Tim E. Stewart DARWIN — The cancellation of the parliamentarians' flotilla to Moruroa has not stopped people's campaigns to support yachts wishing to join the Rainbow Warrior in the Pacific. Activists in ENUFF (Everyone for a Nuclear Free
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By Andrew Watson BRISBANE — A stop-work meeting and rally of armoured car workers here on August 23 resolved to strike indefinitely from August 28, unless the state government responds to their demands for an inquiry into the armoured car and
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University ultimatum to academics By Alex Bainbridge NEWCASTLE — The University of Newcastle administration delivered an ultimatum to its academics' union on August 23, demanding that work bans be lifted. The bans have been partially
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Memorial meeting for Ernest Mandel By John Percy SYDNEY — More than 90 people filled the Resistance Centre here on August 20 to honour the memory of Ernest Mandel, world-renowned Marxist scholar and revolutionary who died in Belgium on July
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By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — Schools across the state were thrown into confusion by an acceleration of work bans on August 23, as part of a campaign to defend around 500 services officers' positions under attack from the Liberal government.
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WA workers oppose anti-union bill By Anthony Benbow PERTH — An estimated 10,000 workers took to the streets on August 22 to protest against the Liberal government's union-busting legislation. The rally and march, organised by the WA Trades and
Analysis
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Battling for credibility John Howard squeezed as much mileage as he could from an invitation to a Collingwood football club dinner recently. Asked whether he wouldn't feel more comfortable at a Carlton club dinner, Howard retorted that if
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East Timor: new wave of repression By Max Lane The East Timorese resistance organisations have called for the release of all East Timorese political prisoners and have appealed for help from non-government human rights organisations in the
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Appeal for Mordechai Vanunu Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli technician who revealed the truth about that country's nuclear weapons arsenal, remains in solitary confinement after nine years of imprisonment. Fredrik S. Heffermehl, chairperson of the
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By Sean Magill Sinn Fein activist Jim Neeson is touring Australia as the guest of Australian Aid for Ireland. His first stop was Western Australia, where he spoke to leading trade unionists, Aboriginal activist Yaluritja (Clarrie Isaacs), and
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By Norm Dixon PNG's newest gold mine — the Tolukuma Gold Mine in the Goilala mountains in Central Province — is the latest site of conflict between traditional land-holders and an Australian mining company. On August 5, rioting broke out
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By Jennifer Thompson An August 20 statement by the Solidarity Bureau in Brussels declared the end of a hunger strike by 10,000 Kurdish prisoners in Turkish jails and hundreds of supporters in other countries. It said that the strike, begun on
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By Norm Dixon South Africa's foreign policy under the ANC-led government of national unity is coming under increasing criticism from sections of the liberation movement, human rights groups and the environmental movement. Critics accuse the new
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Turkish public sector workers strike By Jennifer Thompson About 850,000 public sector workers — members of the Turkish trade union confederation Turk-Is — stopped work on August 8, disrupting communications, transport and power generation.
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By Estoy Evangelista More than 4 million Filipino overseas contract workers are scattered all over the world. Add the Filipinos who have permanently migrated to other countries, and this number would easily reach 10 million (out of a total
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Mass pressure forces deferral of PNG land planBy Norm Dixon Several weeks of large demonstrations in PNG against World Bank/International Monetary Fund-backed proposals to undermine the country's traditional system of collective land ownership
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WASHINGTON — Just one month after South Africa announced to the world that it would not import foreign waste under any circumstances, a 500 ton shipment of hazardous zinc smelter residues from the US is wending its way to South Africa. The wastes
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By Helen Jarvis PHNOM PENH — Legal options for prosecuting the Khmer Rouge leadership for crimes committed during their 1975-79 rule in Cambodia were discussed here in an August 22-23 conference, "Striving for Justice: International Criminal
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JUAN ANTONIO BLANCO is a former adviser to the Cuban Foreign Ministry and the United Nations, and a well-known political analyst. He was interviewed in Cuba for Green Left Weekly by JILL HICKSON and SHANE HOPKINSON Question: The current US strategy
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By James Balowski On August 17, the Indonesian minister of justice, Oetojo Oesman, announced that seven prisoners, including two long-serving political prisoners, are soon to be executed. These will be the first political executions since
Culture
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Russia: the revolution continues? Provocation! A Postscript from 1994By Alexander TarasovMoscow, Centre for New Sociology and the Study of Political PracticePhoenix, 1994 Russia/USSR/Russia: The Drive and Drift of a SuperstateBy Moshe LewinThe
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Land of the Long Weekend
The Big Picture, ABC TV
Wednesday, September 6, 9.30pm
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On the Outskirts IndijjinusLarrikin EntertainmentReviewed by Bob Wills In recent years, music by Aboriginal and Islander performers has become increasingly popular. The music that has gained most attention from the music industry arbiters has
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Nepalese FingersProduced by Boris Goudonof DreamProduced by U. Srinivas and Michael BrookBoth available from Larrikin RecordsReviewed by Sujatha Fernandes From the Hindu festival of Holi, in which people crowd the streets throwing coloured water
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FBI on Air? — FBI (Free Broadcast Inc) is a new non-profit organisation which hopes to be granted a radio licence in Sydney. It will focus on being an outlet for local talent in music, performance and comedy as well as public affairs programs
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The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors — A look at the women who pioneered in the US film industry in the 1920s. SBS, Saturday, September 2, 1.45pm. Songolo: Voices of Change — A celebration of black resistance culture
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The UnderneathDirected by Steven Soderbergh Academy Twin and Valhalla Cinemas, SydneyReviewed by Peter Boyle Steven Soderbergh (of Sex, Lies and Videotape fame) has his audience on the edge of their seats through this movie about the shifting
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By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Flag-led
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A brief selective review of some significant and often neglected works from the culture of dissent. Point of Departure (1986) When Jean Devanny (1894-1962) wrote this memoir, she was no longer a member of the Communist Party of Australia. As a