No racism!
BY TAMARA PEARSON
Across Australia, thousands rallied on December 9 to commemorate International Human Rights Day. While the theme of the event varied across the country, the dominant demands were: "Stop the war in Afghanistan!" and
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BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
MELBOURNE - Anti-war student and community activists met at the University of Melbourne on December 2-3 to discuss the challenges facing the anti-war movement.
The conference, organised by the National Union of Students (NUS)
Israel
Sorry, Philip Mendes, but Narendra Mohan Kommalapati is quite clear in denouncing the State of Israeli as a racist state, while you muddily mix up the Israeli state and the population that lives under its misrule.
The state is a weapon of
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — Sugar mill workers across northern New South Wales have won a substantial victory over Sunshine Sugar. The company had attempted to cut the workers' real pay and demanded compulsory work on public holidays in recent
BY JANE ARMANASCO
PERTH — As a homophobic campaign rages in Western Australia, the November 6 sacking of Edith Cowan University Catholic chaplain Father David Watt has raised questions about how best to defend gay and lesbian rights.
Watt was
BY SARAH STEPHEN
"The challenge facing those in Australia who understand and act upon urgent issues, such as the treatment of asylum seekers, or the issue of racism in general, is to draw together a national focus or campaign that brings direct
BY SEAN HEALY
US President George Bush junior always promised that his "war on terrorism" would be waged on many fronts, in every corner of the world. And he's delivered: because, just as the war in Afghanistan seems to be nearing an end, the war
BY ALISON DELLIT
Even before "anti-terrorist" legislation, increasing powers to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, has been publicly released, attacks on civil liberties in Australia are increasing.
The legislation, first proposed
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Competition policy
"[The federal government] wants to ensure diversity of opinion but not necessarily diversity of ownership." — Senator Richard Alston on why Kerry Packer should be allowed to own even more media outlets.
Rollover
"I think
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Two weeks after the Hobart City Council banned the distribution of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in the Elizabeth Street Mall, the paper continues to be distributed there daily. As of December 9, there had been no arrests or fines
PERTH - On December 7, activists from the Resistance socialist youth organisation staged a "die in" outside the Defence Force Recruitment Centre to protest against the war in Afghanistan. The protesters later walked through the city malls carrying a
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