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• Socialists preselect indigenous elder

  DARWIN — Larrikiah elder June Mills has been pre-selected as the Socialist Alliance's candidate for the Senate in the Northern Territory. Mills, who has previously run as a Senate candidate for the NT Greens, will be joined on
• 'S11+1' targets Nike

  MELBOURNE — On the first anniversary of the September 11-13 protest against the World Economic Forum, anti-corporate activists organised an all-day protest outside the city's main Nike store. It was the 26th successive week of
• Students build CBF protests

  MELBOURNE — Many students are expected to attend protests outside the October 3-5 Commonwealth Business Forum, as activists have been fiercely publicising the events. At Melbourne University, support for the blockade is growing
• Socialist Alliance briefs

  Socialist Alliance briefs Speakout supports refugee rights BRISBANE - A speakout on the steps of King George Square on September 14 condemned the federal government's scapegoating of refugees and called for public support for refugees in
• Loose cannons

  Market law "[W]hat we are now seeing shows what can happen when commercial imperatives rule: a law of the jungle in which consumers gain lower prices during the battle, but the strongest player emerges dominant." — Melbourne Age economics editor
• UWS students protest rationalisation

  SYDNEY — Students and staff from the Bankstown, Campbelltown and Penrith campuses of the University of Western Sydney rallied outside the vice-chancellor's offices at UWS Penrith on September 11. The action was dubbed UWS11. The
• Asylum seekers become public enemy No. 1

  Boats carrying "illegal immigrants" to Australia could be "a pipeline for terrorists", defence minister Peter Reith told radio 3AW on September 13, in an opportunist attempt to make domestic political mileage out of the September
• Action updates

  Refugees solidarity tour ADELAIDE — Local supporters of the campaign for justice for asylum seekers will join the Free the Refugees Solidarity Tour to the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre on September 21. So far more than 100 have
• Alliance preselects union steward

  GEELONG — "For too long now ordinary workers have had to suffer while governments, both Liberal and Labor, have implemented their big business policies. It's time that workers had an opportunity to stand up", says Tim Gooden,
• Resistance in action

  ANU union elections @box text intr = CANBERRA — The September 3-6 Students Association elections at the Australian National University were won by the ticket associated with the incumbent officials. The left-Labor controlled Education Action
• Join the Globalise Resistance contingent

  For several months, activists in Brisbane have been busy organising for the protests at the October 6 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. "We have been campaigning on campuses and on the streets and have found significant
• Beattie fails to show for CHOGM debate

  BRISBANE — Despite the Queensland premier's challenge to publicly debate anti-CHOGM protesters on the issue of globalisation, Peter Beattie failed to show at the launch of the CHOGM Action Network on September 5. Under the theme
• Western Sydney voters reject Labor's racism

  SYDNEY — The NSW Labor government was punished by voters in the September 8 by-election for the western Sydney seat of Auburn. Labor retained the seat, which it had held with a 17% majority, but suffered an 11% swing against
• Socialist Alliance elect activist candidates

  SYDNEY — In the last two weeks, four branches of the Socialist Alliance in metropolitan Sydney have pre-selected their lower house candidates for the upcoming federal election. These candidates, in the seats of Kingsford Smith,
• Socialists Challenge ALP at Tas Uni

  HOBART — ALP member Ted Alexander won the 2001 Tasmania University Union presidential election by a landslide, capturing 59% of the vote. Promising to provide more free beer and improved services Alexander defeated Greens
• 'No-one is illegal'

  SYDNEY — A strong statement of solidarity with the plight of asylum seekers was made on September 9, when 1500 people gathered to condemn the federal government's policy on refugees. The rally was organised by a coalition of
• Thousands rally to save Ansett jobs

  Thousands of Ansett workers have rallied in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to protest the jobs and entitlements they have lost as a result of the aviation giant's collapse. In Melbourne, 4000 workers from nine different unions
• Batman off and running

  MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance campaign for the federal seat of Batman kicked off on September 8 with a demonstration demanding that the federal government accept the Tampa refugees. The demonstration, held at the Preston
• Media frenzy boosts racist attacks

  In the wake of the September 11 mass murder in the United States, Australians from Middle Eastern backgrounds and Muslims are suffering escalating verbal and physical abuse. The most serious incident has been the petrol bombing of
• Socialists intimidated for speaking against war

  BY LUKE FORMIATTI & SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE — The Labor-controlled University of Queensland Student Union has taken drastic action to prevent students from organising against the US war drive. After the University of Queensland Socialist Worker