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'We shall not surrender Ralphs Bay!'

Kamala Emanuel, Hobart More than 700 people rallied in Hobart on July 15 to save Ralphs Bay in the Derwent estuary from a huge canal and housing development. If Walker Corporation's plans are allowed to go ahead, the Ralphs Bay Conservation Area

Michael Moore, GLW have the political ear of youth

Peter Boyle If you were listening to the Australia Talks Back program on ABC Radio National on July 7, you would have heard Tessa Court, from the web monitoring company Hitwise, say: "If you look at the top websites that Australians visited just

Carr gift to Lowy and Latham?

Cate Faehrmann, Sydney Greens NSW upper-house MP Lee Rhiannon has described the state Labor government's forced closure of a factory outlet in the south-west Sydney suburb of Liverpool, which will benefit a nearby Westfield shopping complex, as a

School cleaners fight to save their jobs

Katie Cherrington, Newcastle New South Wales' public school cleaners are fighting to save their jobs. Commerce minister in the NSW Labor government John Della Bosca has announced that new multi-year contracts to clean schools and other public

'Green-Black alliance' discussed

Alex Milne, Melbourne The 2004 Students of Sustainability conference was held at La Trobe University on July 11-14. Around 500 environmentalists and other activists, from interstate and overseas, attended. As always, there was an impressive

PALESTINE: Palestinians and Israelis unite against the wall's 'claws'

Tanya Reinhart ARIEL, West Bank — Along the route of the "separation barrier", in the West Bank, a new culture is springing up: on one side, soldiers and bulldozers; on the other, Israelis and Palestinians embracing the land. In June, Israel's

Write on: Letters to the editor

Abortion Tony Abbott apparently wants "late-term" abortions banned. Why? He probably believes it is a terrible wrong to (intentionally) kill any (innocent) human being and really wants an end to (virtually) all abortions. However, if it is

Abortion scaremongering

On August 8, a British documentary titled My Foetus, depicting the abortion of a four-week-old foetus, will screen on the ABC. In the July 10 Daily Telegraph, NSW lead Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance, Kylie Moon, was asked to comment on

Time for rebellion

REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American CenturyBy Stan GoffSoft Skull Press, New York 2004243 pages, US$13.95 pbOrder from <http://www.softskull.com> "For a brief time in 1994 I acted as the

Socialists launch election campaign

Paul Benedek, Sydney One-hundred people packed the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on July to launch the Socialist Alliance's federal election campaign across Sydney. Compered by Raul Bassi, the Socialist Alliance's Blaxland candidate, the launch

Repressive drug laws challenged

Kathy Newnam, Darwin On July 26, the Northern Territory Supreme Court will hear a case against Margot Laughton, who has been charged under the NT's repressive "drug house" laws. Under the laws, introduced by the NT's Labor government in 2002, a

Protests planned to 'End the lies'

Pip Hinman Plans to hold national "End the lies" rallies the Sunday before the federal elections are well underway. Groups in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Hobart have adopted the additional demands, "Troops out! Howard out!" Andrew Hall told