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Poem: Cleaning Up Eveleigh Street

Cleaning Up Eveleigh Street White cirrus above crumbling streetAboriginal mural manifested along brick wallover a train line, locals drinking on their verandas on busted seatsgarbage piled bursting out green bins feeding a moody fire — Zero

A new industrial tactic: slavery

By Karen Fredericks BRISBANE — The national executive of the Community and Public Sector Union is proposing a "work-in" as part of a national campaign to oppose the federal government's cuts to legal aid. Members are being urged to "make

Ipswich forum blasts racism

By Bernard Wunsch IPSWICH — Some 350 people attended a forum titled "One year of Hanson: Exposing the myths" on Sunday, March 2, in the Ipswich Workers Club. The forum, organised by the Ipswich Anti-Racism Committee, was aimed at discussing

and ain't i a woman?: Not so New Lads

Not so New LadsNot so New Lads "The modern young man is changing. Well-trained in the skill of pleasing women, he's discovering the benefits of pleasing himself. He's a New Lad, and he's ready to kick the SNAG and the Bloke out of women's

Death of civil rights

Death of civil rights By Graham Matthews BRISBANE — When lesbian JM won an anti-discrimination case in the Equal Opportunities Commission against a Queensland sperm bank that refused her access because of her sexuality, the media made

Irish nationalist vote to be split

Irish nationalist vote to be split By Mike Heaney Social Democratic and Labour Party leader John Hume has rejected Sinn Féin's proposal for an electoral pact in the upcoming Westminster elections. Sinn Féin chairperson Mitchel

Challenge to Tasmania's gay laws

Challenge to Tasmania's gay laws By Marina Cameron On February 26, the High Court announced a unanimous decision to allow a legal challenge to the Tasmanian government's anti-gay laws to be heard. Gay activists Rodney Croome and Nick Toonen

Fighting the far right

By Susan Price MELBOURNE — The opening two months ago of a bookshop run by the extreme right-wing organisation National Action has sparked a broad community campaign to drive them out of the area. Fawkner is a working-class, migrant suburb on

A depoliticised, Hollywood flop

EvitaDirected by Alan ParkerStarring Madonna, Antonio Banderos and Jonathon PriceNow showing in all major cinemas Review by Paul Howes Evita, based on a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, is another Hollywood flop. There is really

Labor students turn left?

By Sean Healy With banners proclaiming their allegiance to "socialism, feminism, democracy and unionism", and newsletters declaring the need to "educate, agitate, organise", the National Organisation of Labor Students tried to make a big splash

Socialist candidates call for community control

Socialist candidates call for community control By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "Brisbane needs a council that is controlled by ordinary working people, who are the majority — not a council that panders to developers and big business: a

International Women's Day '97

International Women's Day '97 Thousands of women and male supporters rallied and marched on March 8 against the attacks on women's rights. Rallies around the country heard speakers representing Aboriginal people, migrants, trade unionists, young