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Oil and self-determination in Timor and Iraq

Shua Garfield, Hobart Sixty people heard Cecilio Freitas, chair of East Timor People's Action, and Greens senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle speak at an April 26 forum on "oil and self-determination: Iraq and East Timor". The meeting was organised

Students reject HECS decision at UWA

Kiraz Janicke, Perth Student anger erupted on April 26 as the University of Western Australia's senate met to vote on a 25% HECS increase. More than 200 students rallied at the doors of the meeting in opposition to the fee increase. Although the

Fighting HECS increases

Since the beginning of the year, student activists have been struggling to stop university administrations from increasing student fees. Stuart Munckton, national co-ordinator of Resistance and a member of the Socialist Alliance, takes up the debate

Our Common Cause: Unite to fight racism

Now that PM John Howard has announced the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, his project of crushing every vestige of "special treatment" for Indigenous people is complete. Mark Latham stole his thunder, by

IRAQ: Fallujah battle galvanises hatred of US occupiers

Doug Lorimer "Fallujah will be their Stalingrad. The Euphrates will be a river of their blood. Now the resistance is spreading all over Iraq and everyone is coming to Fallujah to help us. It will not be conquered." These comments by Amar Abbas, a

Brett Cardinal: 'It's time for a change'

On April 28, the ballot opened for the post of Queensland branch secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. The candidates contesting the position are Brett Cardinal, a former Queensland AMWU organiser, running for Workers Unity, a militant rank-and-file group in the union, and acting state secretary Andrew Dettmer, who is supported by AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron.

Dettmer became acting state secretary in 2003 when the elected state secretary, Dave Harrison, resigned to contest preselection for a safe Labor Party seat.