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Grassroots upset Labor in Sydney University elections

Aboriginal activist Kyol Blakeney has won the position of Student Representative Council (SRC) president at the University of Sydney. The ticket that supported him, 鈥淕rassroots鈥, was backed by progressive Greens, independents and socialists. It beat the Labor ticket by a significant margin. University newspaper Honi Soit that Blakeney had won every voting booth, with 61% of the vote.

Socialist Alliance: Why did Numan Haider have to die?

in Victoria released the sttement below on September 25. *** Authorities have inundated the media with 鈥渓eaks鈥 to portray Numan Haider, shot dead outside a police station in Endeavour Hills on September 23, as a terrorist in the making.