Dave Andrews, Fremantle
Power maintenance workers based in Collie, near Bunbury in Western Australia's south-west, are continuing their strike for better working conditions. The strike by 110 workers, now entering its eighth week, has provoked a
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Max Lane
On August 21, Chuzaini, the radical left-wing Peoples Democratic Party's chairperson in the Javanese provincial town of Pekalongan, died in the local prison. PRD national chairperson Yusuf Lakaseng told the Indonesian National Human Rights
Peter Simpson is Queensland state organiser for the Electrical Trades Union. He is currently involved in a campaign to win a new enterprise bargaining agreement that will push electrical workers' pay levels beyond the 13.5% pay increase achieved in
Abolish profit system, says socialist candidate
BRISBANE — "We need a total change in politics. We need a new society, for the millions, not the millionaires", Coral Wynter, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, told
Graham Matthews, Melbourne
Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government has "worked to dehumanise asylum seekers, to use them as a tool in wedge politics", David Ristrom, the lead Victorian Senate candidate for the Australian Greens, told an
QuidamCirque du SoleilSydney until October 10, Brisbane from November 4, Melbourne from March 4, Adelaide from May 12 and Perth from June 30.
Another one of Cirque du Soleil's delightful displays of acrobatic virtuosity and human harmony has
"The only thing that was on my mindWas just shoving my dick up this bitch's behindI looked at the girl and saidBabe, your ass ain't nothing but a base hitI'm going to have to get rid of your ass, yeah'Cause you're on my dick, dick, ding-a-ling."
Rodney Croome
In Baghdad, a young woman cowers by her window watching US troops and Iraqi fighters killing each other in the street, and she wonders why.
In Tasmania's ancient southern forests, helicopters firebomb another clearfelled, poisoned
HOBART — Fifty people protested against Prime Minister John Howard as he attended a business function on August 26. The protest was organised by the Greens, the Socialist Alliance and the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group. Howard was
Rohan Pearce
"The smell of burnt flesh filled the air and blood smeared the deserted streets of Najaf's Old City after heavy US air strikes on Shiite militia positions around Iraq's revered Imam Ali shrine", reported Agence France-Presse on August
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
In a shock decision, three Appeals Court judges on August 27 overturned a County Court sentence and jailed former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian state secretary Craig Johnston for taking part in a 2001
Green Left Weekly's Vannessa Hearman spoke to Chip Henriss-Anderssen, a US-born, former Australian army officer who served with the UN's Interfet peacekeeping force in East Timor. He left the army in 2001 and subsequently joined the Greens. He is now
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