Having booked seats in the public gallery, we disrupted business-as-usual in the House of Representatives on October 31. We planned to stand up and call out, "Resist bad laws! We won't be silenced!" after PM John Howard spoke on the topic. However,
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Police state
Australia is becoming a police state, with hysterical support after the London bombing atrocities for extension of already draconian detention without trial measures.
The Coalition government and politicised and intimidated public
Eva Cheng
The world was stunned when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the shores of Asian countries in December 2004. It killed 300,000 people. But "slow-motion" disasters are unfolding every day with a killing power equal to three such tsunamis every
Pip Hinman
At one of the regular Green Left Weekly Saturday stalls in Newtown, Sydney, the chats with locals and passers-by was interrupted when the local constabulary demanded to see a permit.
"What permit", the Green Left supporter asked?
On November 4, more than 100,000 people converged on the seaside town of Mar del Plata, 400 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, for a protest and counter-summit to the Organization of American States meeting. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received a
Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP) is collecting donations to send to Pakistan for the Labour Relief Camp for Earthquake Victims.
The LRCEV is a coalition of progressive organisations, including the Labour Education Foundation
Richard Pithouse, Durban
On October 21, 16 shacks burnt down in the Kennedy Road shack settlement in Durban. One-year-old Mhlengi Khumalo was very badly burnt. He died the following night. This was the third conflagration that month. The fire
Virginia Brown, Perth
Refugee-rights and other progressive activists suffered a blow last week with the passing of Siobhan Allen, a longtime socialist whose passion for bringing about fundamental social change was well-known and a source of
Paul Benedek, Brisbane
"Secret listening devices, secret recording devices, no right to silence — this is not Nazi Germany in the '30s, this is Australia 2005 for building workers", explained Scott Wilson, an organiser for the Electrical Trades
Pam Walker
Leichhardt Council brought the matter before the Local Government Conference last month. Councils across the state voted overwhelmingly to affirm "the basic right of all citizens and organisations to freely distribute printed material on
Steph Mawson& Karol Florek, Tupiza
Beginning on October 17, the Bolivian towns of Villazon, Tupiza and Cotagaita went on strike to pressure the government to complete a "highway" asphalting project. The planned "highway" runs between these towns
Stuart Munckton
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government has attempted to implement policies that benefit the working majority via redistributing the nation's oil wealth. Despite being the fifth largest supplier of oil in the world, when
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