Green Left Weekly asked some of our recent contributors to explain why they supported the paper.
"Green Left Weekly is a vital part of Australia's independent media. Both in print and on line, it is globally influential — and always worth reading for coverage and insights on issues you will not easily find elsewhere. I have a special reason to appreciate GLW — its journalists Sarah Stephen, Nick Everett and Vannessa Hearman have had the courage to report from the beginning on the confronting issue of SIEV X. Happy 600th birthday to GLW, and may there be many more such birthdays to come." — Tony Kevin, author of A Certain Maritime Incident — the sinking of SIEV X (Scribe) and member of "The Gang of 43".
"Over the last dozen years, Green Left Weekly has taken the — by me sorely missed — place of Tribune on the Australian Left, as a readable, up-to-date, locally based and internationally informed, non-sectarian, well presented socialist and progressive weekly." —
Scott Poynting — Associate professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs.
On the occasion of the 600th issue of Green Left Weekly, I would like to express my deepest greetings and admiration to this wonderful newspaper, which I consider one of the most useful journal in Australia in order to be well informed on important worldwide political, social and economic matters. I am very happy to be a regular reader of Left Green Weekly. — Leonel Vivas, ambassador from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Australia.
As the range of periodicals on newsagents' shelves explodes, the diversity of viewpoints shrinks. Spending, waste, trivia and glamour come in hundreds of wraps. Substance, wisdom, tough-mindedness and good news from popular struggles fight for space. GLW is in the vanguard of that battle. — Humphrey McQueen, academic and member of the Socialist Alliance.
From Green Left Weekly, September 29, 2004.
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