Sarah Stephen
Sam Watson, an Indigenous leader and spokesperson for Socialist Alliance, believes that the level of racist paranoia has increased following the London bombings, and he says the federal government is trying to drag us back to a past
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James Balowski, Jakarta
Despite earlier opposition, leaders of Indonesia's parliament now appear to be willing to allow provincial-based political parties to be established in Aceh. This was a major sticking point in finalising the peace agreement
Jim Green
Federal science minister Brendan Nelson announced on July 15 that the Coalition government intends to dump its nuclear waste in the Northern Territory, thus breaching assurances given prior to the 2004 federal election that the
BRISBANE — Thirty opponents of the controversial Woolworths construction site at Maleny, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, picketed the offices of the Queensland environment and planning minister Desley Boyle and Premier Peter Beattie on July 29.
Jon Lamb
On July 25, Lieutenant Colonel Lance Collins, a leading intelligence expert on East Timor and Indonesia, blew the whistle on the Australian Defence Force's intelligence manipulation and cover-ups in East Timor in 1999.
Collins has also
NSW CFMEU strategy
I attended the June 22 "Stand Up and Speak Out" meeting at Parramatta Town Hall. Contrary to what your article [in GLW #631] reported, CFMEU NSW secretary Andrew Ferguson did not "urge caution, lest the right of entry of union
BRISBANE — The US government faces "deficits" on a number of fronts in its occupation of Iraq, leading US peace activist Phyllis Bennis told a public forum at the Avid Reader Bookshop on July 27. The forum was sponsored by the Brisbane Social Forum
Alex Bainbridge, Toronto
Two-hundred people, mainly academics and graduate students, participated in the first international anniversary conference of the California-based red-green journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism over the July 22-24
Sue Bolton
Kevin Quill, a member of the Electrical Trades Union and a Pilbara Mineworkers Union activist at Hamersley Iron, described what happened when individual contracts were introduced in the Pilbara in the early 1990s.
"Individual contracts
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Coalition Senator Nigel Scullion was given a cool reception at an "information session" he held in Alice Springs on July 26 in an attempt to sell the Coalition government's proposal to build a nuclear-waste dump near the town.
Max Lane
East Timor's local elections are now in their eighth month. In Aileu, close to Dili, the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) achieved second place after Fretilin, pushing the Democrat Party into third place. Overall, in the districts contested
To the chagrin of right-wing media pundits in Britain, Karl Marx has been voted "greatest ever philosopher" by listeners in a five-week online poll run by the BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time. The July 21 Weekly Worker reported that the In Our Time
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