BY DANIEL HARRISON
CANBERRA — "Change happens on the street, not in parliament", said James Vassilopoulos, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Fraser, during an interview for the local ABC drivetime radio program. "Choosing between Labor
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BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS& MARGARITA WINDISCH
The US-led war on Afghanistan is killing hundreds and displacing tens of thousands of Afghan civilians. Millions are threatened with starvation, and many of these will attempt to flee from Afghanistan in order
For the November 10 federal election, the Socialist Alliance is directing preferences to the Greens ahead of Labor in the Senate. Some affiliates and members of the alliance disagreed with this. Here, Democratic Socialist Party member and Socialist
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — Federal education minister David Kemp was shocked to be interrupted mid-speech by screams of "You racist warmonger" during an October 23 forum of 1500 high school students in the Melbourne Town Hall.
Kemp was
Students form anti-war group
CANBERRA — Following a student walkout on October 19, a dozen students from Narrabundah College have formed a new anti-war student group called Students Protesting Against Needless Killing, SPANK.
The group
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Federal Labor leader Kim Beazley has made much of the fact that Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has so far refused to discuss the issue of asylum seekers with the Howard government.
During the Tampa incident, Megawati
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
We are a nurse, illegally striking, to protect the health of patients. We are a student at the Australian National University, working two jobs to pay for uni. We are an S11 protester, beaten up by the cops. We are an ex-ALP
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH, Palestine — The October 17 assassination of tourism minister Rehevem Ze'evi, a hated leader of Israel's racist right, was greeted with huge public approval from the Palestinian street, but has since then provided a
The speakers' lists at Reclaim the Night rallies across Australia were littered with election candidates from all political parties — in Adelaide it was Democrats Senator Natasha Stott Despoja and the Coalition's Trish Draper; in Sydney it was
BY SIMON BUTLER
BRISBANE — The left-wing Activist Left ticket failed to win any major office-bearer positions in the October 8-12 Griffith University Student Association election.
The left lost despite the fact that the right wing ALP-Liberal
To the people of Britain and the USA: I write from Mauritius. You may not remember quite where that is.
BY EVA CHENG
If US President George Bush hadn't dominated this year's October 17-21 summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) in Shanghai, China, with his "anti-terrorist" war drive, the peak regional body of 21 economies would have
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