"Good parenting and responsibility is not an optional extra in life, it's necessary for a good society", argued federal ALP leader Mark Latham in supporting plans by the Western Australian Labor government to issue "parental responsibility orders"
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James Crafti, Melbourne At 7pm on January 17, a special edition of Melbourne Age newspaper listing the first round of university offers was released. The cover of the paper had a cartoon of a small young person reaching up to grab a key from a
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Russian left and KPRF Tom Freeman (Write On, GLW #566) provides a curious gloss on the article in GLW #565 in which Boris Kagarlitsky discusses the Future of the Left conference held by Russian oppositionists last November in the town of Golitsyno,
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On January 16, author and activist Arundhati Roy, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize, addressed the opening plenary of the World Social Forum in Mumbai. This is an abridged text of her speech. Last January thousands of us gathered in Porto Alegre in
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Kerryn Williams A damning report on the federal government's work-for-the-dole program has revealed "quite large significant adverse effects of participation" in the scheme. The report, "Does 'Work for the Dole' Work?", was obtained by the
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Sarah Stephen Federal Labor leader Mark Latham won endorsement for his "tough but fair" policy towards refugees when the ALP's 2004 national conference voted on January 30 to reject the amendments put forward by supporters of Labor for Refugees.
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Dale Mills David Hicks has been held without charge in the US military camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for more than two years. In November, US Major Michael Mori was appointed as his military "defence counsel". On January 21, Mori launched an
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This statement was distributed by Socialist Alliance members to delegates at the January 29-31 ALP conference. The Howard government is creating a two-tier Australia — one for the rich, another for the poor. It is trying to smash the unions,
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Dave Riley A day after admitting that he took policy leads from interstate ALP governments and New Labour in Britain, state Coalition leader Lawrence Spingborg accused Queensland Labor of policy theft. "This is just plagiarism", he said, "at the
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Doug Lorimer The Labor Party's three-day 2004 national conference formally began on January 29 with federal ALP leader Mark Latham's keynote speech. However, the conference — a largely staged-managed public relations event to launch Latham's bid
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Sarah Stephen Drunken brawls marred this year's Australia Day fireworks show on Perth's waterfront, with groups of intoxicated young men chasing each other down the city streets bent on violence. Fifty people were taken to hospital. The ethnicity
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On January 17, former diplomat Tony Kevin revealed that Australian SAS forces in Iraq had engaged in a "turkey shoot" against Iraqi troops — 30 hours before US President George Bush's declaration of war. 91̳ Weekly's Nick Everett spoke to
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Norm Dixon A landmark report, commissioned by the environmental group Friends of the Earth and released on January 29, has revealed that the operations and products of the world's largest oil corporation, Exxon Mobil and its predecessors (beginning
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Simon Butler, Newcastle The state of the refugee rights movement and the role local governments can play in strengthening it were the themes of a public meeting hosted by the Newcastle branch of the Socialist Alliance on January 28. Steve
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Anna Samson, Sydney There is little difference between "an irresponsible drunken man" wantonly vandalising private property and two individuals attempting to "make a serious political point" by marking a public building. This is what Justice John
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HOBART — A recent Newspoll on woodchipping commissioned by Doctors for Forests has drawn angry responses from the forestry industry and Liberal and Labor state politicians. More than 85% of the 1200 people interviewed across Australia said they
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Jim McIlroy, Brisbane "We are issuing a challenge to Premier Peter Beattie to use his almost certain big majority after the coming state election to make some significant changes in this state", Coral Wynter, the Socialist Alliance's candidate for
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Elizabeth Stewart, Brisbane Adrian Skerritt, the Socialist Alliance's candidate for the seat of Inala in the February 7 Queensland elections, has called a "public auction" of the electoral office of local Labor MP and primary industries minister
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Sue Bolton, Melbourne Australia Post's mail service in Victoria was seriously disrupted on January 29 when 250 postal workers took action against their relocation to the new Ardeer parcel facility in West Sunshine. The dispute arose when
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No. 1 with a bullet "As Americans flood Iraq's airwaves with radio stations playing harmless Western and Arab pop tunes, the young are turning elsewhere for their musical inspiration. They turn to artists like Sabah al Jenabi who sings: 'America
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Mike Byrne, Brisbane The Socialist Alliance's South Brisbane branch staged an "eviction" of ALP state MP Anna Bligh from her electorate office on January 31, as a protest against homelessness, which has dramatically increased under Premier Peter
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Anne Picot, Sydney Socialist Alliance activists joined unionists, students and community education activists on January 31 to picket the national ALP conference. Chanting "No fees for TAFE" and "No fees and no job cuts", we leafleted conference
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Shua Garfield, Hobart University of Tasmania student Munyaradzi "Munya" Chiramiro is facing deportation to Zimbabwe after incorrectly completing a bridging visa application. Munya has lived in Hobart since mid-2001 and is one semester short of
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Kathy Newnam, Mumbai One of the largest contingents to the World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai was from the Pakistan Social Forum (PSF). With nearly 400 delegates, it was the largest delegation of Pakistanis that has been to India for a specific
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The American Civil Liberties Union has congratulated six gay students who were awarded US$1.1 million compensation, after a California school failed to stop homophobic bullying. The students had been fighting for five years. The school took the
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Don Monkerud High suicide rates among soldiers in Iraq should come as no surprise. Anyone who remembers America's last colonial-style war or who walks the nation's streets knows how Vietnam War veterans continue to suffer long after the last shot
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Berta Joubert-Ceci, New York Amid protests restricted by the government and a heavy police presence, the Americas Summit was held on January 12-13 in Monterrey, Mexico. Many protesting groups had signed a statement declaring US President George
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@intro2 = As the battle for the Democrat presidential nomination heated up, US Socialist Worker took a closer look at the most likely candidates. Profiles of all candidates are available at <;. John Kerry
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Max Lane The Indonesian people's contempt for, and rejection of, the country's elit politik (political elite) is wide and deep. So deep, that a term that began as a normal sociological description is now a form of insult used by the masses. Several
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Rohan Pearce Little more than a week and a half after the publication of a book on the career of US President George Bush's former treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, in which O'Neill confessed he "never saw anything that I would characterise as
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Eva Cheng Hoping that China's enormous population of about 1.2 billion people could be turned into mass consumers for the products of Western companies, Western leaders hailed China's initiatives in the early 1990s to reintegrate into the world
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Indonesian trade unionist Dita Indah Sari, chairperson of the Indonesian National Front for Labour struggle, addressed 6000 people at the World Social Forum on January 17. On returning, she wrote the following comment on the conference. Like at
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Doug Lorimer "Today our coalition is working ... with Iraqis and the United Nations to prepare for a transition to full Iraqi sovereignty by the end of June", US President George Bush dishonestly declared in his January 21 State of the Union
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ROHAN PEARCE Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair has, for the moment at least, escaped becoming a victim of his pre-war deceptions about Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction. On January 28, an inquiry headed by James Hutton
Culture
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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. Includes the 91̳ news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone (02) 9564 1277. Visit
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REVIEW BY BEN REID The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular CultureBy Roger LancasterUniversity of California Press, 2003442 pages, $60 Surely but subtly, an alliance of poor science and the popular media has established a new
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MirrorsKev CarmodySong CyclesA$30 from <;. REVIEW BY IGGY KIM Kev Carmody has been much missed since his last original album release, 1995's Images and Illusions. While his
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The Crass Motor ShowKeep Left TheatreFebruary 18-28, Victorian Trades Hall, Carlton$15/$10Book on (03) 9489 1096 or visit <;. REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN & JULIE SMITH MELBOURNE — The Crass Motor Show is a
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REVIEW BY OWEN RICHARDS Our BoysDirected by Kerry BrewsterProduced and edited by Andrea LangScreening on ABC TV8pm, February 10 A new television documentary series about marginalised students in the public education system gives the lie to Prime