BY STUART MARTIN
WOLLONGONG — On October 26, Naomi Arrowsmith cut up her ALP membership card and put a Socialist Alliance poster in support of Margaret Perrott's campaign for the seat of Throsby in her front yard. "This is what I think of Kim
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
A 19-metre, rotting, leaky Indonesian fishing boat, with a capacity for 150 passengers, picked up more than 400 asylum seekers from Lampung on October 18 to make the journey to Christmas Island. A few hours out to sea, the boat
BY SHUA GARFIELD
One prominent feature of Hobart's October 18 student walkout against Bush's war was the presence of two police officers with a video camera in a carpark 50 metres away from the anti-war rally. Despite the fact that it was an
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
BY SEAN HEALY
In a rare win for environmental issues within the World Trade Organisation, the WTO's Appellate Body on October 22 upheld the legality of a United States ban on fishing practices which endanger the sea turtle.
Malaysia had sought to
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
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 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 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
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
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