BY STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA More than 100 students attended the Australian National
University Students' Association May 27 annual general meeting, at which
students voted to make opposition to mandatory detention and support for
asylum
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SYDNEY — On June 1, activists picketed defence department offices. The protest, called by Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific, demanded that Australia end its military ties with Indonesia, and called for freedom for Aceh.From Green Left
Museworthy: Tampa: For the DrowningWho Were Watched
The air's carcass lieson the earth's bright back.
A newborn baby has been introducedto waterand waggles its headlike an ocean bird.
This is the day coming after the oneon which we gave
ALP ranks respond to mass pressure on refugees
The rumblings in the ranks of the ALP about the partys disgusting sell-out
of refugees are increasing. In Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria,
ALP state conferences passed motions
BY FELICITY MEAKINS
Indigenous languages and the stolen generations were another casualty of the 2002-03 federal budget. The $7.2 million previously allocated to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) for preserving and
Israel I
Boaz Magal (Write On, GLW #493) makes several correct criticism of Israel, but then tries to salvage some legitimacy for the Zionist state by saying, "there is no other place the Jews really can call home". If this is true, how do you
[MELBOURNE On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union
seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation.
This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP,
has been an
BY DAVE RILEY
At the heart of the current medical insurance crisis is the private
health-care system. Without specialist doctors on call and guaranteed liability
coverage, private health care much praised by successive Labor and Coalition
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE As the political witch-hunt against the Construction,
Forestry, Mining and Energy Union continues in the form of the royal commission
into the building industry, on May 28 it was revealed that the
[On June 1, the Socialist Alliance sent the following letter to the
Greens national council.]
Dear comrades and friends,
Last night, at its regular monthly meeting, the national executive
of the Socialist Alliance voted to contact the
[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing
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