Visy workers keep fighting
By Federico Fuentes and Tom Flanagan
SYDNEY — Seventy students, along with union and community activists, joined striking workers on the picket lines at Visy Board factories at Smithfield and Warwick Farm on July 15.
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By Max Lane
Dita Sari has accepted an invitation by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor to tour Australia. The theme of the tour will be "Freedom in Indonesia, Free East Timor". Dita's party, the People's Democratic Party (PRD), and
By Rachel Evans
In Queensland, a 14 year-old woman (she cannot be named because she is under the "protection" of the Department of Family Services) who was diagnosed last year with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was later placed in state custody
Dita Sari is free!
By Sam King
JAKARTA — After spending almost three years in jail for her "crime" of organising Indonesian workers to struggle for their rights, Dita Sari was released from the Tangerang women's prison, on the outskirts of
Greed is good
"I thought the suggestion was very good ... and of course I saw a commercial opportunity in it." Radio 2UE's shock-jock John Laws on his agreement to "chat" aimed at rescuing the image of Australia's banks in exchange for $1.2
By Sean Healy
Resistance recently had direct experience of Australia's discriminatory immigration laws. We invited Farooq Sulheria, a leader of the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP), to our national conference in Melbourne earlier this month. Farooq
At least one too many Henry Lawsons
Henry Lawson: A LifeBy Colin RoderickAngus & Robertson, 1999. 447 pp., $35 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Until his great rival, A. B. "Banjo" Paterson, deposed him when it went plastic, Henry Lawson adorned
By Zanny Begg
SYDNEY — During the Students and Sustainability Conference, held at Hawkesbury campus of the University of Western Sydney, July 12-16, there was debate over the decision by some men to form a "pro-feminist" men-only space at the
This space
By Brandon Astor Jones
This is the first in a series of four poems that I feel the need to share here. In essence, this space will belong to the author of each poem for the duration of the series. It is my hope that readers will be
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By John Meehan
DUBLIN — On July 15, the British government triggered a gadget (the D'Hondt mechanism) for electing a devolved Stormont government in Belfast — and the Irish "peace process" sank into farce that would not have not been out of
ExilioCanto Coro Order by phoning (07) 38485208 or e-mail <jfences@powerup.com.au>Cost is $15, including postage Review by Mark Cronin
A CD recording of part of the latest performance in Brisbane by Canto Coro, a program of choral works
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