Tim Gooden is the Socialist Alliance candidate for the Geelong seat of Corio. Green Left Weekly's Karen Fletcher spent a day with him on the campaign trail.
"You. Are. Fuckin. Kiddin. Aren't ya?" says Glen, covered in mud, leaning against his
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The formidable figures of US President George Bush and his puppet-in-tow, PM John Howard, have appeared regularly after school on the busy Hume Highway near Yagoona Public School, imploring passers-by not to vote for the Howard government.From
Graham Matthews, Socialist Alliance candidate for Batman, and Tony Iltis campaigning outside Preston Centrelink. Socialist Alliance calls for a halving of the $7 billion annual defence budget and for the savings to be spent on guaranteeing free
A colleague of lawyer Julian Burnside decided to spend his own money printing and distributing 35,000 posters with the below design during the federal election campaign. A week after the posters (and payment) was accepted by Red Cap Distributors,
Nicole Hilder, Wollongong
On September 29, the Illawarra Socialist Alliance launched its health policy outside Wollongong Hospital, the same day as the Illawarra Mercury carried the front-page headline "Health shut-out: region's hospitals have
Federico Fuentes
Juan Choque, a 37-year-old cocalero (coca farmer) from the Chapare region in Bolivia was shot dead on September 28, while 19 others were injured in clashes with the military. The death came only three days after talks between
In April 2004, students at Glenunga International High School in Adelaide set up the Student Activist Alliance. The SAA has since grown to include members from other high schools in Adelaide. Green Left Weekly's Melanie Coutman recently spoke to SAA
Eva Cheng
According to an article in the China-based Social Science Forum (issue #5, 2003), exorbitant fees charged by schools have compelled a number of students to take their own lives.
Zhang Yulin, deputy professor at the Nanjing Agriculture
She goes to the shops,this woman who hates shopping.She has dressed smartly, hiding hairy legs.She knows what she needs,and pushes past those savouring,not swallowing, the task.Fumbling with hangers,she flushes at the guard's gaze.Her feet and limbs
The following statement was issued on September 29 by the HAK Association, Haburas Foundation, Oxfam Australia, Alola Foundation, La'o Hamutuk (East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis), East Timor Community Radio Association
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Migrant forum supports refugee rights
BRISBANE — Strong support for refugee rights was the overwhelming sentiment of a forum sponsored by the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland in the Brisbane Town Hall on September 30.
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Animal Farm: A Fairy StoryBy George OrwellNew Edition, Penguin Books, 2003120 pages, $17.95
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
George Orwell's Animal Farm is published here in a new edition that contains a preface written by Orwell for the first edition
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