BY VIRGINIA BROWN
PERTH — The variety of backgrounds of the 30 activists who gathered for Socialist Alliance's first "politics in the pub" forum on October 19 — refugee rights and anti-war campaigners, candidates from different left-wing
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BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — There have been mixed reactions to the October 24 apology made to indigenous people by the Northern Territory Labor government before a gallery packed with members of the stolen generations: some see it as the dawning
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Lessons of
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
SYDNEY — Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) Senate candidates Michael Denborough and Yvonne Francis were arrested at Sydney University on October 25 for handing out anti-war information on campus.
Francis told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — In a combined mass meeting on October 24, 10,000 construction unionists have decided not to cooperate with the royal commission into the industry set up by the federal government and have backed a united industrial
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — The eighth anti-war rally in the six weeks since the September 11 terrorist attacks attracted 400 protesters on October 21, including strong contingents from the Turkish and Kurdish communities.
Speaking to the crowd
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The government released its mid-year budget review on October 17. A
key feature of the review was the allocation of large sums on top of existing
funding for coastal surveillance and detention of asylum seekers arriving
in
Labor won't guarantee job security
On November 1, unionists will gather across Australia to rally for job
security. Such demonstrations are badly needed — the collapse of Ansett,
Qantas' threatened job losses, Coles Myer's mass
BY LEE SUSTAR
CHICAGO — Well-paid academic experts and media pundits are lining up to give Washington an intellectual justification for war. Basically, the justification is that "they hate us".
In a Newsweek magazine cover story, Fareed Zakaria
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — The Hobart City Council is considering banning the distribution of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly in Elizabeth Mall, one of the city's main public spaces.
Council referred a motion banning the newspaper's distribution back to
Human rights visit cancelled
The visit to Australia by Akin Birdal, leader of the Human Rights Association in Turkey, reported in last week's 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, has had to be cancelled at short notice. Birdal cannot make the trip because of a
Is it true they were ploughing the soldiersinto the ground? An arm, bearing a watchtelling all the time in the world; a faceand a boot indistinguishable in theirhardness; a mathematician movingtowards infinity; a weaver soon lostin the intricate
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