Will and Dave are committed to repaying reasonable cleanup costs for the removal of their artwork on the Sydney Opera House. The current bill stands at $151,000, of which more than $40,000 has already been paid.
All donations will be very
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Will Saunders and Dave Burgess are serving nine months of periodic detention for painting the words "No war" on the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Green Left Weekly's Niko Leka and Kerry Vernon spoke to Burgess after his first two months of weekend
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne Craig Johnston, the former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch secretary, goes on trial on May 10 on charges arising from an industrial dispute in 2001. The dispute was over the sacking of 29 workers
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Sarah Stephen On April 26, Prime Minister John Howard restated to A Current Affair that his greatest fear for 2004 is a terrorist attack in Australia. But in reality, Howard's biggest fear is that Australia doesn't become a terrorist target, that
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Since the beginning of the year, student activists have been struggling to stop university administrations from increasing student fees. Stuart Munckton, national co-ordinator of Resistance and a member of the Socialist Alliance, takes up the debate
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Norrian Rundle& Michael O'Reilly, Melbourne The Australian Education Union (AEU) and the Victorian Labor government announced on April 30 that they had ended their dispute with a new wages deal for the state's 40,000 public school teachers and
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Iraq I In Adam Bonner's letter (Write On, GLW #579), which I otherwise agreed with, there is the surprising statement: "Where they [the Iraqis] lacked the courage to take on Saddam, maybe they can redeem themselves by taking on the new military
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Now that PM John Howard has announced the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, his project of crushing every vestige of "special treatment" for Indigenous people is complete. Mark Latham stole his thunder, by
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When research shows that violence against women is extremely common, and that young women are particularly vulnerable, violence prevention becomes a matter of national importance. So why has the Australian government indefinitely halted an innovative
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Doug Lorimer If the US troops leave Iraq, "violence will fill the vacuum as groups struggle for political power, and we risk all-out civil war", John McCain, a leading Republican member of the US Senate armed services committee, declared in a April
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On April 28, the ballot opened for the post of Queensland branch secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. The candidates contesting the position are Brett Cardinal, a former Queensland AMWU organiser, running for Workers Unity, a militant rank-and-file group in the union, and acting state secretary Andrew Dettmer, who is supported by AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron.
Dettmer became acting state secretary in 2003 when the elected state secretary, Dave Harrison, resigned to contest preselection for a safe Labor Party seat.
News
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1 PSA says 'Put it to a vote!' ADELAIDE — The Public Service Association has called on the South Australian government to put its wage offer for public servants to a vote of employees, after negotiations failed to reach a conclusion. The PSA
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Adam Leeman, Sydney May Day rallies took place around Australia on the May 1-2 weekend. In Sydney, 1000 people marched, including contingents from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous
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HOBART — With 78% of the vote counted by the end of polling night on May 1, Socialist Alliance candidate Kamala Emanuel had received 860 votes or 5.27% in the Tasmanian upper house seat of Elwick. Greens candidate Helen Burnett gained 14.79% of
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Ken Turner, Lismore Around 1000 people rallied at the Lismore railway station on April 26 to protest state government plans to close the Casino-Murwillumbah XPT rail link on May 17. Protesters wore red to the rally to symbolise that the community
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Kiraz Janicke, Perth Student anger erupted on April 26 as the University of Western Australia's senate met to vote on a 25% HECS increase. More than 200 students rallied at the doors of the meeting in opposition to the fee increase. Although the
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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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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
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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
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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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Sarah Stephen The seven judges of the High Court's full bench ruled unanimously on April 29 that the Family Court did not have the authority to release children from immigration detention or make orders about their welfare. Constitutional lawyer
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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
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Iraqis are immaterial "You can't leave a vacuum." - US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, April 10, arguing against the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. Expert advice "The Vietnamese people have some friendly advice for the United
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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
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3 Students discuss Iraqi resistance SYDNEY — On April 29, Green Left Weekly journalist Rohan Pearce addressed a Sydney University Resistance Club forum on the growing resistance to the US occupation of Iraq. "Those who believed that the
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2 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
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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
World
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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
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Lee Sustar, Washington Activists from around the US were joined by representatives of social movements from around the world on April 24 for a spirited march in the US federal capital against the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund
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Alex Miller In a rally called by the Scottish Socialist Party, 2000 people marched against the council tax in Glasgow on April 24. The SSP is campaigning to have the current system of local taxation replaced by a Scottish Service Tax (SST), based
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Jason Tockman, Caracas Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has announced that the cultivation of genetically modified crops will be prohibited on Venezuelan soil, possibly establishing the most sweeping restrictions on transgenic crops in the
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Norm Dixon Even while working people were still coming to terms with the shock of witnessing the unimaginable and traumatic collapse of the World Trade Center, top US officials were describing this mass-murder of 3000 people as "an opportunity",
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Nicole Colson, Chicago "There are just so many people." — Tawana Evans was overwhelmed by the estimated 1 million turnout for the April 25 march for women's lives in Washington, DC. Travelling from Houston with a Planned Parenthood contingent of
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The impact of Indonesia's election has been widely debated, but little attention has been paid to the movements for change in the country. Green Left Weekly's Vanessa Hearman spoke to Gigih Guntoro, the general secretary of the Indonesian National
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Doug Lorimer "Fallujah will be their Stalingrad. The Euphrates will be a river of their blood. Now the resistance is spreading all over Iraq and everyone is coming to Fallujah to help us. It will not be conquered." These comments by Amar Abbas, a
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A growing anti-privatisation movement, allegations of government corruption and revelations of the repression of Muslims are all causing headaches for the government of Thaksin Shinawatra, and creating new opportunities for a re-emerging Thai left.
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In late January, Internationalen's Farooq Sulehria caught up with renowned writer and activist Tariq Ali. The following is an abridged vrsion of the interview. Do you really think that Islamic fundamentalism is a threat created by US imperialism
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Eva Cheng Twenty days after Beijing's April 6 move to "interpret" Hong Kong's Basic Law in areas beyond its legal jurisdiction, it did it again. On April 26, Beijing declared that it will not allow a popular vote on the territory's chief
Culture
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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
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At a nearby table, women in soft headscarves arranged an elaborate hookah among the plates of spiced chicken. Children laughed in and out of the buzzing hall. Brisbane's Palestinian community and their supporters had turned up in
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In Our NameWritten/directed by Nigel Jamieson, in association with the Al Abaddi familyBelvoir Street Theatre, SydneyPlaying until May 30 REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE There are many moments of heart-stopping beauty in this staged narrative of an Iraqi
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(for Etienne Patrice Kevin Mallard, who always cheered for ColonelMathieu and his shades, and, of course, for Liam) Deja vu all over again. Some asshole from Texas is sending 'Merican boysand girls to do what Asian boys and girls should never do.