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  • Green Left email list touches 500

    Dave Riley The Green Left Weekly email discussion list was set up two years ago as an adjunct to this paper's publishing venture. It has now reached the 500 subscriber mark, making it one of the largest open discussion lists on the left. Over

  • Academic banned from entering Indonesia

    On the evening of March 2 at Jakarta airport, Dr Ed Aspinall, a lecturer in South East Asian history at the University of Sydney, was prevented from entering Indonesia.

  • Loose cannons

    No quick fix "The insurgency in Iraq is not likely to be put down in a year or even two since history shows such uprisings can last a decade or more, the United States' top military commander says. Air Force General Richard Myers says that in the

  • Gunns 20 website launched

    HOBART — The Friends of the Gunns 20 have launched an official website at <http://www.gunns20.org&#062;. According to the home page, the website provides "information on one of the biggest lawsuits ever launched in Australia by a rich

  • Palestine forum

    CANBERRA — The daily struggles of life in the Occupied Palestinian Territories were the focus of International Women's Peace Service volunteer Kim Bullimore's address to a Socialist Alliance forum held on March 3. Also addressing the forum was

  • CPSU members debate union's direction

    Paul Oboohov, Canberra Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are currently debating the future direction of the union in response to yet another round of proposed restructuring. Under the proposal, decision-making power will be

  • Cuts to homeless services likely

    MELBOURNE — On February 21, the Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) stated that the federal government is likely to cut funding by 10% to Supported Accommodation Assistance Programs (SAAP). Both federal and state governments are currently

  • WA alumina plant workers defy fine threats to win strike

    Ian Jamieson, Fremantle After four weeks on strike, 430 workers involved in the expansion of the BHP-owned Worsley Alumina plant near Bunbury in south-west Western Australia appear close to victory in a dispute in which individual strikers were

  • Pro-choice campaigning planned

    HOBART — In response to the high-profile abortion-bashing by federal health minister Tony Abbott and friends, the Hobart International Women's Day collective has decided to prioritise pro-choice campaigning this year. Meeting on February 28, the

  • Murri leaders slam new Qld minister

    Jim McIlroy, Brisbane He was the "minister for black-outs, now he's the minister for out-Blacks", Aboriginal leader Sam Watson told Green Left Weekly on March 4, describing the new Queensland minister for Aboriginal policy, John Mickel. Mickel

  • Students Against War win victory against ANZ

    Kiraz Janicke, Sydney During the University of Sydney's orientation week, Students Against War, which has been running a campaign against Australian companies profiting from the occupation of Iraq, planned to picket the ANZ bank's stall. ANZ is

  • 15-year-old deported to Thailand

    Nicole Hilder, Melbourne A popular 15-year-old year student at Thornbury Darebin Secondary College, Nak Assavatheptavee, was forcibly deported by immigration officials to Thailand on February 25. Assavatheptavee has lived in Australia for the