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Solidarity with Craig Johnston MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance is organising a public meeting in solidarity with the elected Victorian leader of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Craig Johnston and the “Skilled Six” on September
BY IAN BOLAS In the present period we have Labor governments in all states and yet nothing much seems to be different. The NSW government sends mounted police against pickets, the Victorian government collaborates in victimising the "Skilled Six"
The human cost of the 'Pacific solution' On August 26, 2001, 433 asylum seekers aboard an Indonesian fishing boat, the KM Palapa 1, overloaded and sinking, were rescued by the Norwegian freighter, MV Tampa. On August 27, the Howard
Fish farm protested BRISBANE — Around 500 people took to the water on August 14 in the biggest protest yet against plans to build a fish farm the size of four football fields in Moreton Bay. The protesters, representing 50 environment,
BY VIRGINIA BROWN PERTH — "Today, men are the only standing target. It is no longer permissible to take potshots at women. A few decades of lobbying by women activists has taken care of that. But men are still fair game for television
BY MALIK MIAH SAN FRANCISCO — Once again an amateur's videotape is spoiling the “lawful” deeds of cops in Los Angeles county. In 1991 it was Rodney King. Today it is a teenager. Unbeknownst to the cops, these videotapes exposed the men in
REVIEW BY SHANE HOPKINSON The Future Seekers: Refugees and the Law in Australia By Mary Crock and Ben SaulFederation Press 2002152 pages, $24.95Order at <http://www.fedpress.aust.com/Books/CrockFutSeek.html> The Future Seekers is a
[The following statement was issued on August 5 by the central committee of the newly formed Workers Party of the Philippines.] MANILA — In a historic step forward for the Philippine left, more than a hundred delegates from three
BY SIMON MILLAR MELBOURNE — On August 12, Denis Matson, one of the two national industrial officers for the printing division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union was summarily sacked by AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron, and