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'Environment before profits'
Glenn Shields is the Socialist Alliance candidate for Franklin. As a long time campaigner for a healthier environment and for the preservation of Tasmania's forests, he has played a leading role in challenging the introduction of wood-fired power

Glenn Shields is the Socialist Alliance candidate for Franklin. As a long time campaigner for a healthier environment and for the preservation of Tasmania's forests, he has played a leading role in challenging the introduction of wood-fired power stations in Tasmania such as the Southwood Woodchip Mill.

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'We must protect our environment'
Chris Johnson, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Corangamite in Geelong, explains why she is contesting the federal election. I have been an activist since my teens, having marched in anti-Vietnam War moratorium and anti-nuclear rallies. I am a
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News briefs 2
2 Free Craig Johnston campaign gains support SYDNEY — The campaign to free jailed Victorian union militant Craig Johnston has achieved its first union support in NSW, with the adoption of motions of support by three local branches of the NSW
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PALESTINE: Driving Israelis out of our town
Rihab Charida, a member of the Socialist Alliance and Palestinian solidarity group Sawiyan, travelled to Palestine and Lebanon in June to help at the refugee camps. This is one of her tales from Palestine, sent to Green Left Weekly on September 2.
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Labor's family tax policy and sole parents
Linda Seaborn Sole parents would face gains and losses under the ALP's family tax policy released on September 7, according to Dr Elspeth McInnes, the convenor of the National Council of Single Mothers and their Children. Sole parents who receive
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News briefs #3
#3 SIEV X book launched BRISBANE — The story of SIEV X, the unseaworthy, overcrowded refugee boat that sank in October 2001, drowning some 350 asylum-seekers off the Indonesian coast, involves a "massive Australian government agency cover-up",
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UNITED STATES: St. Clair interview: The elections and the crisis of enviro politics
Jeffrey St. Clair is a US environmentalist and author of Been Brown So Long it Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature. He is also the co-editor with Alexander Cockburn of the radical muckraking newsletter and online site Counterpunch, as
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Free Trade Agreement
We all want an FTA with the USA.We've got lots of money to give away.Don't worry about the jobs we lose,sacked workers can hit the booze.Australian intellectual property rightswill only lead to endless fights.If you worry about the PBSit will only
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UNITED STATES: US pays millions to overthrow Chavez
Eva Golinger, New York Documents recently obtained from the US Department of State under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by <http://www.venezuelafoia.info> demonstrate that more than US$5 million annually during the past two years
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'Lying rodents' to target Howard's election launch
Marce Cameron, Brisbane An alliance of progressive organisations is planning a peaceful rally and march at PM John Howard's official election campaign launch on September 26. This will be one week before the national pre-election "End the lies"
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