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Chris Spindler, AMWU: 'The political party we all want to see'

[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing

Fortians against fortress Australia

A few months ago a group of friends at Fort Street High School were painting a banner and talking, they decided to convince their fellow students of the injustice of government policy towards refugees and to mobilise them to change it. Year 12

Good riddance to Ally McBeal

BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE Maybe there is a god. Five years ago, the Fox network introduced Ally McBeal — a show focused on the wacky antics of the self-absorbed Harvard law graduate and her coworkers at a high-powered Boston law firm. TV audiences

No Greens deal on Telstra

[On May 31, Greens Senator Bob Brown told ABC radio that he would consider helping the government to sell the remaining third of Telstra if the government was prepared to end old growth logging. Later that day, a press statement from Brown's

AFGHANISTAN: US gives warlords green light to reassert control

BY NORM DIXON The United States is tacitly backing many of Afghanistan's brutal and reactionary warlords as they divide up the country among themselves. Many of the same warlords committed unspeakable atrocities during the devastating

News Briefs

Sorry Day BRISBANE — Around 2000 people walked across the Goodwill Bridge to a festival in Musgrave Park to mark National Sorry Day 2002 on May 26, condemning past governments’ forcible removal of Indigenous children from their

and ain't i a woman?: Maternity leave divides conservatives

and ain't i a woman?: Maternity leave divides conservatives Feminists have long called on the government to provide women with maternity leave on full pay, but what was interesting about the debate leading up to this year's federal budget was

Next GLW

The Green Left Weekly staff will be taking a break next week. The next GLW will be published on June 19. From Green Left Weekly, June 5, 2002. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page. 

Young refugee activists face court

BY JESS MELVIN MELBOURNE — On the morning of May 30, I and fellow high school Resistance activist James Crafti stood before a judge at Melbourne Children's Court. The case followed our arrest for trespass while protesting for refugee rights

Tony Abbott slams AMWU

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — Tony Abbott, federal workplace relations minister, used parliamentary privilege on May 29 to savagely attack the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and, in particular, Craig Johnston, the secretary of the

Victorian AMWU plans industrial campaign

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — Craig Johnston, the secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), may be under attack, but along with the rest of the militant union branch's Workers First leadership, he is

Students support refugees, bureaucrats block action

BY STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — More than 100 students attended the Australian National University Students' Association May 27 annual general meeting, at which students voted to make opposition to mandatory detention and support for asylum