Band banned for politics
HOBART — On August 24, Hobart College band Mr Mukhole played at the school's assembly. Before the band started to play, the lead singer, Bryn Heathwood, explained the band's name and reason for existing.
As Heathwood
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Dave Andrews, Fremantle
Power maintenance workers based in Collie, near Bunbury in Western Australia's south-west, are continuing their strike for better working conditions. The strike by 110 workers, now entering its eighth week, has provoked a
Queensland Rail announces job cuts
BRISBANE — Queensland Rail will cut more than 700 jobs from its workforce of 13,500 in the initial stage of a drastic restructure, which follows the loss of a major rail freight contract to private company
Jonah Gindin & Robin Nieto
Despite rumours that Venezuela's right-wing opposition would boycott the regional elections scheduled for October, on August 24, at a meeting of labour leaders belonging to the social-democratic Accion Democratica,
Graham Matthews, Melbourne
Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government has "worked to dehumanise asylum seekers, to use them as a tool in wedge politics", David Ristrom, the lead Victorian Senate candidate for the Australian Greens, told an
Ruth Ratcliffe, Sydney
Three years after the Tampa affair, when Prime Minister John Howard's government refused to allow 400 asylum seekers who had been rescued by a Norwegian freighter to set foot on Australian soil, 250 refugee-rights supporters
Abolish profit system, says socialist candidate
BRISBANE — "We need a total change in politics. We need a new society, for the millions, not the millionaires", Coral Wynter, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, told
Mission Impossible: the Sheiks, the US and the Future of IraqBy Paul McGeoughQuarterly Essay 14, 2004Black Inc117 pages, $13.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
There can be no doubt that Sydney Morning Herald journalist Paul McGeough has got bottle.
HOBART — Fifty people protested against Prime Minister John Howard as he attended a business function on August 26. The protest was organised by the Greens, the Socialist Alliance and the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group. Howard was
Peter Simpson is Queensland state organiser for the Electrical Trades Union. He is currently involved in a campaign to win a new enterprise bargaining agreement that will push electrical workers' pay levels beyond the 13.5% pay increase achieved in
Rodney Croome
In Baghdad, a young woman cowers by her window watching US troops and Iraqi fighters killing each other in the street, and she wonders why.
In Tasmania's ancient southern forests, helicopters firebomb another clearfelled, poisoned
Max Lane
On August 21, Chuzaini, the radical left-wing Peoples Democratic Party's chairperson in the Javanese provincial town of Pekalongan, died in the local prison. PRD national chairperson Yusuf Lakaseng told the Indonesian National Human Rights
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