HOBART — This week, students at Tasmania University will elect office bearers for the Students Representative Council. The main election tickets are Zest, Impact and the Higher Education Action Team (HEAT). Zest, a ticket based
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Anger and honesty By Brandon Astor Jones "We live in two different Americas ... I've never felt American. I've only felt African-American. An American is suppose to have life, liberty, prosperity and happiness. What have my people
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The government's Wik bill, on the day it was introduced to the lower house, was described by Northern Land Council chairperson Galarrwuy Yunupingu as the final drink from the poisoned waterhole for indigenous people. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's JENNIFER
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne
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The Australian Council of Social Services, Australian Youth Policy and Action Coalition, National Youth Coalition for Housing, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Catholic Social Welfare Commission, other welfare rights groups and the
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JOHN HOLMES, emeritus professor of geography at the University of Queensland, spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's GRAHAM MATTHEWS about the Howard plan and its likely repercussions for Aborigines. Question: Could you identify the extent to which native
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Decriminalise prostitution Debates surrounding brothels in two Sydney suburbs raise, once again, the question of feminists' perspective on prostitution. Earlier this year a brothel which has operated in Liverpool Street for five
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The noose tightens around PalestineRAMALLAH — On September 4, three bombs exploded within seconds of each other in the busy shopping area of Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem. The bombing happened a little over one month
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Penalty rates retained BRISBANE — An employers' attempt to abolish penalty rates from the retailing workers' award has failed in the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission. The commission announced on September 11 that there is still an
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SYDNEY — The left's campaign for the Sydney University SRC reflects the diverse issues that have impacted on the student population. This year the left is planning to run with more explicit left-wing politics; it also plans
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Seventy people attended a fascinating seminar on the origins and nature of racism, and how to fight it, held at the Resistance Centre in Sydney on September 9. The talks presented generated a lot of discussion, in particular a
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Macquarie workers strike for equal paySYDNEY — Food and beverage workers at Macquarie University Union voted unanimously to strike on the afternoon of September 8. They were demanding an end to inequality. Presently,
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The scourge of Labor nationalismOne key reason that the Hanson and Howard show has hit high ratings is its deep connection to the history of capitalist Australia. Hanson's rhetoric invokes an ideology and tradition that
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The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has released a "background information" document to justify the new reactor planned for Lucas Heights in southern Sydney. The only problem is that it's not very
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Tasmania's parliament In GLW #287 Tony Iltis wrote about the proposed revamp of Tasmania's parliament. The current format is a two-house parliament with 35 members elected to the lower house with each of five electorates returning seven members
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Chesty Bond's undies The name's Bond, Chesty Bond. Ah yes. Finished textiles. Undergarments. That's me. In-built gusset. Double-stitched trim. Do not bleach. Hot iron. Made in Australia. Chest puffed out.
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Are unions ditching enterprise bargaining? James Vassilopoulos If you believe media reports of the September 1-5 ACTU congress, unions are abandoning enterprise bargaining and are moving towards industry-wide bargaining. This,
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The sharp fall in currencies and stock markets in south-east Asia in recent weeks have raised serious questions about the future of the "newly industrialising countries" (NICs) or "Asian tigers". The article printed here, by CHOW WEI CHENG, is
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Action for native title BRISBANE — A branch of Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) was launched here on August 31. Fifty people gathered at Kangaroo Point to hear speakers stress the need to defeat the Howard
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Brutal reaction to student sit-inCANBERRA — On September 11, after an Australian National University student general meeting, a small group of students held a brief, peaceful sit-in in the university chancellery.
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Very soon every purchaser of a new Windows-based computer will have Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer's world view delivered right into their homes without even having to remember to subscribe. It's no fuss, no mess, no choice news on-line. Every
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Victory at RMITMELBOURNE — In a significant victory for the campaign against fees for undergraduates, RMIT students and staff are to vote in the first "referendum" on fees ever held. The concession
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WOLLONGONG — Two hundred residents showed their disapproval of changes to services at Port Kembla Hospital by walking out of a community consultation meeting held at Warrawong Community Centre on September 3. The Illawarra
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Asian activists address secondary studentsCANBERRA — Touring activists Edwin Gozal from the Indonesian People's Democratic Party (PRD) and East Timorese writer Naldo Rai addressed a packed lunchtime forum at
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NTEU criticises Abstudy cutsOn September 9 the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union publicly pledged support for a national day of action on September 11, organised by indigenous educators to fight cuts to
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Strike resumes at Hunter Valley mineHUNTER VALLEY — Mine workers at Rio Tinto's Hunter Valley No. 1 coal mine resumed their strike on September 8 in response to continuing provocation by mine management. The miners had
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ADELAIDE The neo-Nazi grouplet National Action on September 6 marched down Hanson Road, which runs through the western suburbs and has a large Asian population. While the march attracted 10 people, some 100 anti-racists mobilised
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Build fight back in UQ student union electionsStudent union elections will take place at the University of Queensland from September 15 to 19. At a time of increasing attacks on education and
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Feminists discuss attacks on women SYDNEY — A public meeting about the impact on women of the Howard government's funding cuts was organised by the International Women's Day collective on September 10. Speakers were Peggy Trompf from the
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ANU students go to the polls By Will Williamsand Erin Killion CANBERRA — Elections for the students' association at the Australian National University take place this week. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to Dave Gosling, Resistance activist and
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Swinburne union affiliates to VTSAN and NUSMELBOURNE — More than 700 students attended the Swinburne Student Union (SSU) special general meeting on September 9 to change the constitution of the union and affiliate to
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MELBOURNE — 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's RAY FULCHER and ALISON DELLIT spoke to a participant in the RMIT occupation, MARCEL CAMERON. Why did the university give way to the students' demands on the referendum? The student union had already put a lot of
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Tax Office workers protestMembers of the Community and Public Sector Union employed by the Australian Taxation Office have completed two weeks of rolling stoppages to protest management's plans to sack up to 50 workers in the
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What other side? "If the Labor Party doesn't, the other side of politics will force it on the agenda." — NSW ALP Premier Bob Carr on his plan to privatise the state's electricity industry. Crying all the way to the bank "No-one is
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First death in private prisonBRISBANE — A 22-year-old white male serving a three-month sentence in Woodford private prison was found hanging by a video cord at 2.12pm on September 12. The prisoner, whose name has not
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Activists block Eastern DistributorSYDNEY — Greens councillor Tom McLoughlin from Waverley Council was among eight protesters arrested on September 9 for blockading the felling of trees on the Eastern Distributor route.
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Doctors raise alarm over JabilukaA team of doctors from Sydney Children's Hospital on September 9 held a press conference opposing the Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu National Park. The team was headed by Dr Helen Caldicott,
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Correction The article "Hinchinbrook campaign in court and on the water" in GLW #289 said that land purchased by Williams' Cardwell Developments was granted development approval by Cardwell Shire Council in 1995. This approval was granted in
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Hinchinbrook protesters face vigilante threatsBRISBANE — The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties has called for a police investigation into alleged threats against environmentalists protesting against the Port
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TCF tariffs "It is designed to give people a greater sense of job security", John Howard said of his government's decision to freeze tariffs on textiles, clothing and footwear for five years from 2000. The prime minister chose his words
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Hands off native title! Land rights now! While pretending otherwise, Howard and his government are trying to push through with "bucket loads of extinguishment", as deputy PM Tim Fischer rather aptly, if undiplomatically, described the racist
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ATHENS — The US/NATO-controlled "stabilisation forces" occupying Bosnia have come out openly on the side of Bosnian Serb President Biliana Plavsic in her power struggle with the clique around former president
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ATHENS — Thousands of teachers and students blocked the city on September 4 in the first action of what promises to be a long campaign against the government's education "poly legislation". The centrepiece of this
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Veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war have mounted a determined campaign to expose the Mugabe government's failure to deliver decent living standards and land for the poor, and to fight corruption. Veterans want decent pensions and
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Ever since Beijing's turn toward the market in 1978, top Communist officials have repeated a "determination" to defend socialism and that state ownership would remain the "mainstay" of the economy. Beijing's key measure of
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NAIROBI — On August 12, 1897, English law came to Kenya. A century later, should we celebrate or mourn? We suggest that Kenyans should reflect on the meaning of English law and of colonialism to Kenya as the 20th century comes
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Peace forum on Sri LankaCANBERRA — A group called Friends of Peace in Sri Lanka held a lively forum of 50 people on August 31 to explore the possibilities of an end to the war in that troubled country. The group is an
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Cuba: hotel bombing kills Italian visitor Italian businessperson Fabio di Celmo was killed on September 4 when a bomb exploded in Havana's exclusive Copacabana hotel. Two other bombs which exploded at the same time at the Triton and
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In briefBP backs off Energy conglomerate British Petroleum has backed off from legal attempts to seize the bank accounts of UK Greenpeace. On August 21, BP dropped court actions against Greenpeace for its campaign
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NY police torture immigrantIn the early morning hours of August 10, a Haitian immigrant in New York, Abner Louima, was outside a nightclub in a largely black and immigrant section of Brooklyn after a party. As the
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'Educational elitism' in the PhilippinesSYDNEY = Arnel Casanova spoke on the struggle against privatisation of education in the Philippines at Macquarie University on September 11. Casanova is a left-wing member of the
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ATHENS, September 6 — While 10,000 Athenians waved flags and honked horns outside parliament at the news that Athens would stage the 2004 Olympics, the mood could hardly be described as overwhelming. Compared to events such
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Not many people know of Ewan MacColl. Those who do remember him as a folk singer and partner of Peggy Seeger. As a songwriter, MacColl is recognised as the author of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Dirty Old Town", "The
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Doing Time for Patsy ClineStarring Matt Day, Miranda Otto and Richard RoxburghWritten, directed and produced, with John Winter, by Chris KennedyOpening nationally in Dendy cinemas on September 25 Preview by Jennifer Thompson This film opens, and
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Dangerous LiasiansDownstairs Theatre, Belvoir StreetSeptember 18-20 and 25-27Bookings 9699 3444 Review by Suneeta Peres da Costa A cabaret as anti-racist polemic? The work of the ensemble in Dangerous Liasians, performed as part of the fifth
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BRISBANE — The Satire Workshop has been making headway. Originally foundered as a pilot project to disseminate and promote political satire throughout Australia, the workshop has met with a ready response, as much overseas as
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The Democratic Socialist Party has a new web page. It can be accessed at . It aims to be not only an accessible introduction to the views and activities of the DSP, but also an extensive resource of DSP
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Pulling the strings on an old classicBRISBANE — Sixty years after its first publication, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit has been brought to life. After six years of lobbying for funding, puppet design and construction and
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Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne ClemensBy Andrew HoffmanWeidenfeld & Nicolson1997, 572 pp., $49.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon Mark Twain is often regarded as a simple humorist and writer of children's books about growing
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Dreamtime Wisdom Modern Time VisionWirrinyga BandCAAMA Music Review by Deb Sorensen Arnhem Land has produced some great bands over the years. Arnhem bands will often tour communities in the region, where they have an established following, but
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Preview by Lynda Hansen The Marrugeku Company was created specifically to produce Mimi in which performers from the Stalker Theatre Company, indigenous dancers and musicians from Western Australia, and Aboriginal dancers, musicians and painters
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Timorese art exhibition opensCANBERRA — The Tuba-rai Metin art exhibition opened on September 11 at the Canberra School of Art. Initiated by the East Timor Cultural Centre in Fairfield, Sydney, this impressive
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Small MiraclesBy Eric BogleLarrikin/Festival, 1997The Emigrant & the ExileBy Eric Bogle & John MunroLarrikin/Festival, 1997 Review by Alex Bainbridge Eric Bogle's songs still maintain some connection with social — dare I say