On September 28, more than 50 people, including guest speaker Rodney Croome, attended the launch of the Greens Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex policy. Green Left Weekly's Rachel Evans caught up with Jenny Leong, Greens candidate for
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Sarah Stephen The plight of hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers, many of them living in Australia without the right to work, Medicare or government benefits, was largely invisible until the Victorian Tamil Cultural Association raised the alarm on
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Rohan Pearce It's been a frequent refrain of US officials that Washington is winning its counter-insurgency war in Iraq. "It's very important for the people of the world really to know that we are winning, we are making progress in Iraq. We are
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This open letter was sent from the Melbourne west branch of the Socialist Alliance to the Melbourne inner west branch of the Victorian Greens on September 30. We write to communicate our disappointment and surprise at the decision of the inner west
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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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Nukes The September 29 issue of Green Left Weekly (#600) offers up Lyndon LaRouche's support for nuclear power as further evidence of his reactionary, fascist views, comparable in nature to his homophobia and racism. Elsewhere in the same issue,
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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
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Peter Robson, the Socialist Alliance's candidate for Newcastle, talks to Green Left Weekly's Kerry Vernon about the federal election campaign. Both the major parties have been doling out election promises over the past few weeks, what do you think
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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
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Message Stick: Dot Collard — An international actress and storyteller, Dot Collard's stage career began at age 62. Now in "retirement", Aunty Dot tells of her life before acting, a time when prejudice and struggle were everyday occurrences. ABC,
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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
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Norm Dixon The clock is ticking. If global industry's greenhouse gas emissions do not begin to be significantly and rapidly reduced within decades, humanity faces potentially catastrophic consequences. Yet, confronted with the world's most
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Steve Dargavel It's important for us to understand the lead-up to the court case against [former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Victorian branch secretary] Craig Johnston. The election of the Kennett state government in 1992 and the Howard
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The following petition, with tens of thousands of signatures, will be presented to the Bracks government at a mass rally in early November. To: The Hon. Rob Hulls MLA, Attorney General of Victoria; The Hon. Steve Bracks MLA, Premier of Victoria.
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Kylie Moon I was shocked to hear that the NSW and Victorian prison administrations had decided to block the distribution of election information to prisoners. This decision follows an August federal act that took the vote away from prisoners
News
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MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance laid a trap for foreign minister Alexander Downer as he was to address a conference on human rights in Iraq on October 1. With a rodent trap baited with cheese made of lies, Socialist Alliance activists dressed
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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
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Tony Iltis, Melbourne More than 3000 people joined a march on October 1, organised by the Refugee Action Collective, to call for an end to the persecution of refugees in Australia and an end to the Coalition government. Speakers included Annette
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#1 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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Sarah Stephen The widespread, deep-seated opposition to the ongoing occupation of Iraq and to the Coalition government's lies spilled onto the streets of major cities across Australia on the October 2-3 weekend. "End the lies!", "Troops out of
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BRISBANE — Labor foreign affairs spokesperson Kevin Rudd was spotted reading up on the Socialist Alliance's policies at a September 27 Politics in the Pub. Along with Rudd, the forum was addressed by the Greens, Democrats and Socialist Alliance
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Paul Oboohov, Canberra At a September 29 Socialist Alliance public forum on the theme "Truth overboard: war, lies and refugees", Big Brother's Merlin Luck criticised the warped view of reality presented on so-called reality TV shows. Reality in the
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#4 Migrant forum supports refugee rights BRISBANE — Strong support for refugee rights was the overwhelming sentiment of a forum sponsored by the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland in the Brisbane Town Hall on September 30. Election
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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
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On September 24, refugee supporters placed 80 pairs of children's shoes outside the office of the Liberal member for Dobell, Ken Ticehurst, out of respect for the 80 children still held in detention by the Coalition government. The protest was a
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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
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#2 Candidates address WEL forum BRISBANE — On September 20, candidates from the ALP, the National Party, the Greens, the Democrats and the Socialist Alliance answered questions about their policies for women at a West End forum organised by
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SYDNEY — Socialist Alliance members protested outside Channel 7's new Sunrise studio in Martin Place on 'Truthful Tuesday', September 28. The activists displayed signs with anti-war and other slogans that could be seen in the background of the
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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
World
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HAITI: Disease epidemic looms As the death toll from Hurricane Jeanne's attack on Haiti continues to climb well over 2000, Oxfam health experts in the country have warned of a looming disease epidemic, as hundreds of thousands of people are forced
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Roberto Jorquera On the day after his decisive victory in the August 15 presidential recall referendum, leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told a victory celebration by tens of thousands of his supporters: "The recall referendum was not just
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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
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Rohan Pearce In the lead-up to the November 2 US presidential election, the number of US casualties caused by Washington's attempt to conquer Iraq is a politically sensitive issue for the Bush administration. But, try as they might, the White House
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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
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The following statement was issued on September 29 by the HAK Association, Haburas Foundation, Oxfam Australia, Alola Foundation, La'o Hamutuk (East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis), East Timor Community Radio Association
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Max Lane On October 1, Indonesian president-in-waiting Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he would study and possibly review a controversial military bill that was adopted by the outgoing House of Representatives on the last day of its five-year term on
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Norm Dixon On September 21, Salih Booker, the director of the Africa Studies Program at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations ruling-class think tank, argued in the International Herald Tribune that the US government has failed to
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Kim Bullimore, West Bank On the fourth anniversary of the second Palestinian intifada, the residents of the small village of Budrus once again faced off teargas, sound grenades and rubber bullets to protest the wall that is dividing their land. The
Culture
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REVIEW BY MARGARITA WINDISCH ShadowlandAt the Footscray Community Arts Centre,45 Moreland Street,FootscrayUntil October 10. A close collaboration between Melbourne photographer Viv Mehes and a group of refugees living on temporary protection
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She goes to the shops,this woman who hates shopping.She has dressed smartly, hiding hairy legs.She knows what she needs,and pushes past those savouring,not swallowing, the task.Fumbling with hangers,she flushes at the guard's gaze.Her feet and limbs
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Animal Farm: A Fairy StoryBy George OrwellNew Edition, Penguin Books, 2003120 pages, $17.95 REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER George Orwell's Animal Farm is published here in a new edition that contains a preface written by Orwell for the first edition
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Tony Iltis Posters have appeared around Melbourne's Trades Hall proclaiming "Be alert! Be alarmed! SKA-TV's Activist Awards are returning!" The Activist Awards are the progressive community broadcaster's satirical take on the Logies, giving awards
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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,
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CMIBy the Version 1.0 collectiveOctober 13-17, Performance Space, Cleveland Street, Sydney. October 19-23, The Street Theatre, Canberra.CMI is set to return! The superbly written and slickly acted play about the Senate Inquiry