John Percy, Sydney
A major diplomatic incident could be triggered by a diehard right-wing Vietnamese group in Sydney, with the naive complicity of the Fairfield City Council.
A local Vietnamese paper claims that the council has officially
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Share of federal funding to public schools went from 73.7% in 1964-65, to 33.3% in 2005-06. During the same period, the share of federal funding to private schools went from 26.3% to 66.7%. Direct federal funding to private schools was $2.7 million
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A famous thinker once wrote that in modern industrial society, individuals are more than ever dependent upon society for their "food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought". Far from
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Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne I was actively involved in the campaign for East Timor's independence throughout 1999 as a member of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor. We were fortunate that at the time, Craig Johnston held the
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Lost the plot Those in charge of the Labor Party have lost the plot. They have failed to educate the young people about Labor's objective. The election proved that the young people are going away from Labor. In older times the Labor Party had a
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John Howard's Liberal-National Coalition government sent Australian troops to join the illegal US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. Until recently, Labor's policy was to bring the troops home by Christmas. But after the election, and to the dismay
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Damien Lawson John Howard was killed in Iraq two months ago. A 26-year old staff sergeant in the marines, he died when his helicopter crashed in Al-Anbar province in August. The youngest of three brothers from Virginia, he joined the marines in
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Duroyan Fertl & Bill Mason Emergency actions took place in five Australian cities in opposition to the US-led carnage in Fallujah. More than 200 people braved the rain and wind to protest in Sydney, in an action organised at short notice by the
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Rohan Pearce Many liberal commentators have spent their time since the November 2 US presidential election bemoaning the "stupidity" of US people for "re"-electing President George Bush, instead of voting for John Kerry, the alternative pro-war
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Prime Minister John Howard declared on November 10 that "there will be no government-sponsored change at the federal level" to the current legal status of abortion. However, a dozen government MPs have indicated their support for, or intent to use,
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Jim McIlroy, Brisbane Sam Watson, prominent Aboriginal activist and Socialist Alliance member, slammed as "racist clowns" the members of the Australian army who were revealed in the November 11 Courier Mail, standing behind Aboriginal soldiers in a
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On August 27, former Victorian secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Craig Johnston was jailed for nine months for an industrial protest in defence of jobs. Despite 40-50 people being involved in the protest, only Johnston was
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Rob Sutherland, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union member working on the Spencer Street station site in Melbourne, explains why he supports jailed unionist Craig Johnston. Around 1996 I had a car accident on the way to work. I ended up in
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The Refugee Action Collective in Melbourne recently voted to support the campaign for the release of jailed unionist Craig Johnston. RAC member Tony Dewberry moved the motion in favour of Johnston and explains why below. I know some people might
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Vannessa Hearman Geoffrey Hearman was a Socialist Alliance member and a supporter of the refugees' rights campaign. A man with a deep sense of humanity, he was also my stepfather and a man who got me interested in politics. Born in Melbourne into
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On October 19, 2001, the "SIEV X" boat sank between Indonesian and Australian waters, taking the lives of 353 people. Amal Basry survived the tragedy and the following is her story, which she told to Mary Dagmar Davies. Amal means hope in Arabic.
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I understand the Skilled Six Committee and a number of unions have decided to call a rally for November 25 around the call to free myself and highlight the injustice of my jailing. For this I thank everyone involved. However, I would like to
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Total Recall: The Election Of Arnie — Tells the story of how Arnold Schwarzenegger ended up Californian governor. SBS, Thursday, November 18, 2pm. A Million Acres A Year — The southwest of Western Australia is one of the world's most
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91̳ Weekly's Chris Latham spoke to newly elected Greens senator from Western Australia Rachel Siewert about the Greens' increased vote and role now that the Coalition will control both houses of federal parliament from July 1 next year. The
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Sue Bull, Geelong The Shell oil refinery in Geelong has once again been caught out polluting Corio Bay. On November 4, Shell failed to inform the Environmental Protection Agency that a spill had reached the bay and the company was initially very
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Kamala Emanuel & Anthea Stutter, Hobart Tasmanian Aborigines and their supporters are campaigning in favour of the Aboriginal Lands Act 2004, due before state parliament in November. The bill, introduced by the government, will hand back three Bass
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#2 La Trobe University evicts NTEU MELBOURNE — La Trobe University has served an eviction notice on the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), demanding that it vacate its office on campus by December 31. Campus unionists believe this is
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#4 Melbourne Social Forum MELBOURNE — The first Melbourne Social Forum will be held on November 28, strengthening the city's links to the global anti-capitalist movement. Speakers at the event, to be held at the Ceres environmental park in
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Kathy Newnam, Darwin Opposition to the planned US-Australia military training centres in Queensland and the Northern Territory continues to grow. Following his participation in US defence and Pentagon briefings, former senior ANZUS treaty advisor
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Lachlan Malloch, Sydney Indian writer and anti-globalisation campaigner Arundhati Roy exhorted a packed Seymour Centre audience on the evening of November 3 to bring home the resistance to the US-led occupation of Iraq by boycotting the products of
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Michelle Brear, Sydney The world's biggest teddy bear joined staff, students and kids at a 150-strong rally on November 11 at the University of New South Wales to demand that the university urgently act on the enormous childcare waiting lists at
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Sarah Stephen, Sydney The immigration department must have changed its mind at the last moment, because Sereana Naikelekele wasn't on the flight from Sydney that arrived in Fiji at 6.10pm on November 6, where Fijian police and airport officials
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#1 Palestine photos exhibited BRISBANE — On November 8, 50 people attended a public display of photographs taken by Vivienne Porzsolt, a Sydney member of Jews Against the Occupation, during her three-week visit to Israel/Palestine last
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Boom years "More than 60% of all US companies paid no federal tax at all during the boom years of 1996 to 2000, the [US Congress's] General Accounting Office reports." — MSN Money website. Like the glove puppet invites in the hand "And so
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#3 Small wins for asylum seekers Immigration minister Amanda Vanstone, who has fought for the strictest possible interpretations of the Migration Act, faced a small setback in the High Court on October 27. An Iranian asylum seeker who has
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Liam Mitchell, Sydney As train commuters struggle to get to work on time and home by a reasonable hour due to an unreliable, understaffed railway system, RailCorp management and the NSW Labor government continue to blame rail workers for the
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Federico Fuentes Antonio Peredo Leigue, a key leader of the Movement to Socialism in Bolivia wrote in an article published on argenpress.info on November 3, "In just one day, Sunday October 31, four elections in as many countries across Latin
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Jorge Jorquera An alliance of the left, principally made up of the Communist Party of Chile and the Humanist Party, the main Green party in Chile, managed 9.14% of the vote in the October 31 municipal elections. This is the highest left vote since
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Across the globe, media is debating why United States voters seem to have become more conservative. In this article abridged from the US Socialist Worker <;, Lance Selfa comes to different conclusions. Hardly
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Kim Bullimore, Ramallah Amid chanting, gunfire, clapping and weeping, Yasser Arafat was welcomed home to his final resting place by more than 200,000 Palestinians on November 12. Tens of thousands wearing the familiar checked kaffir and carrying
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91̳ Weekly offers our condolences to the Palestinian people for the loss of a fighter for freedom. A full obituary for Yasser Arafat will appear in the next 91̳ Weekly.From 91̳ Weekly, November 17, 2004. Visit the 91̳
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In this article, which first appeared in the November 9 Sydney Morning Herald, former diplomat Tony Kevin called on Australians to oppose what is happening in Fallujah. We need to be clear on what is happening in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, about
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Doug Lorimer On November 8, the US military launched its long-anticipated second attempt to recapture the rebel Iraqi city of Fallujah, located 55 kilometres west of Baghdad. The assault — conducted by some 10,000 US troops and 500 Iraqi troops
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Alex Miller Between November 4, when they were moved to central Iraq, and November 9, four soldiers from the Scottish Black Watch regiment were killed. On November 8, the Reuters news agency reported a British Ministry of Defence spokesman as
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James Balowski, Jakarta The new government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faces a staggering array of problems — rampant corruption, continuing human rights abuses by the military, massive unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, and a
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Michael Shaik Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla-turned-statesman, granted the Nobel Peace Prize before being condemned by the Israeli and US governments as a terrorist and obstacle to peace, died of a blood disease in a Paris hospital on November 11,
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Max Lane, Sydney Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP) is deeply concerned at the news that 38-year-old Indonesian human rights campaigner Munir, who died in September aboard a flight to Amsterdam, was murdered, according to an
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Across the country, Australians have condemned the government's support for the slaughter in Fallujah. Full statements from groups and individuals are available on GLW's Fallujah web page at ...
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Rohan Pearce Many have spent their time since the November 2 US presidential election bemoaning the "stupidity" of US people for "re"-electing President George Bush, instead of voting for John Kerry, the alternative pro-war candidate favoured by
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Eva Cheng The illegal Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) plans to press ahead with a general strike on November 15 despite having the strike ballot among its 140,000 members seriously disrupted by police. The KGEU had planned a general
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Stuart Munckton The Venezuelan regional elections held on October 31 registered another decisive victory for the Bolivarian revolution, just two-and-a half months after the radical pro-poor President Hugo Chavez won almost 60% of the vote in
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Rohan Pearce Months ago, civil libertarians and supporters of democratic rights might have greeted the news of John Ashcroft's imminent retirement from the position of US attorney-general with relief. After all, Ashcroft, a nutty fundamentalist
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REVIEW BY MAX WATTS Kisch in Australia — The Untold StoryBy Heidi Zogbaum, afterword by Marcus PatkaScribe Publications, Melbourne 2004240 pages, $26.95 (pb). Just 70 years ago, on November 13, 1934, Egon Erwin Kisch, a German-writing
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*Don't speak of rights, justice or oughtswe have castrated judges in neutered courts.The only things they guarantee are silence,lying politicians and ASIO's compliance.In nondescript brick veneered suburbsfearful, frightened half lives ledby the
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REVIEW BY AUSTIN WHITTEN Tell Me No Lies — Investigative Journalism And its TriumphsEdited by John PilgerJonathan Cape, 2004626 pages, $35 (tpb) In the introduction to his eminently readable new book, John Pilger states that he wanted to honour