HOBART — With 78% of the vote counted by the end of polling night on May 1, Socialist Alliance candidate Kamala Emanuel had received 860 votes or 5.27% in the Tasmanian upper house seat of Elwick.
Greens candidate Helen Burnett gained 14.79% of
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A growing anti-privatisation movement, allegations of government corruption and revelations of the repression of Muslims are all causing headaches for the government of Thaksin Shinawatra, and creating new opportunities for a re-emerging Thai left.
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
Craig Johnston, the former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch secretary, goes on trial on May 10 on charges arising from an industrial dispute in 2001. The dispute was over the sacking of 29 workers
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
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
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
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
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
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In Adam Bonner's letter (Write On, GLW #579), which I otherwise agreed with, there is the surprising statement: "Where they [the Iraqis] lacked the courage to take on Saddam, maybe they can redeem themselves by taking on the new military
Doug Lorimer
If the US troops leave Iraq, "violence will fill the vacuum as groups struggle for political power, and we risk all-out civil war", John McCain, a leading Republican member of the US Senate armed services committee, declared in a April
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PSA says 'Put it to a vote!'
ADELAIDE — The Public Service Association has called on the South Australian government to put its wage offer for public servants to a vote of employees, after negotiations failed to reach a conclusion.
The PSA
Will and Dave are committed to repaying reasonable cleanup costs for the removal of their artwork on the Sydney Opera House. The current bill stands at $151,000, of which more than $40,000 has already been paid.
All donations will be very
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