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Marxism 2014 draws many to socialist ideas
Barry Sheppard; and US rap artist and activist Boots Riley. A number of Filipino activists attended the ... Socialism Susan Price More than 1100 people, including a large number of young activists, attended ... union activists including members from the Maritime Union of Australia, Victorian Trades Hall and the ...
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Agitpop
most committed artists towers above that of their peers. Some, like Bob Dylan or Mick Jagger, may now ... Get Up Stand Up Saturdays, ABC TV at 10pm REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY As you grow older you forget. My ... ears have been listening to music for longer than I know and thousands of melodies have wafted between ...
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The new IR bill: it's about choices
of choice is that? — Remember, if they don't like that particular job, they can go looking for ... person will need to accept any job regardless of the conditions offered? — Well, yes. He has no choice. ... we would like some clarification. — You got it. Yes. I suppose we did. But... correct me if I'm ...
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Noel Pearson does not speak for us
festival, has challenged Pearson to a public debate. The article below is an abridged transcript of an ... interview with Watson by Dave Riley. For some years now, white Australia has chosen to engage with ... Noel Pearson and his Cape York Leadership Institute. But people like Pearson have no mandate. They have ...
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Roddy Doyle Ha Ha Ha
up such Irishry. Nonetheless, thanks to the likes of Mr J. Joyce, such archetypical fictions persist ... The Woman Who Walked into Doors By Roddy Doyle Jonathan Cape. $29.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley ... I first read a novel by Roddy Doyle soon after the film version of The Commitments was released. Since ...
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Food irradiation is back
By Dave Riley Food irradiation is back on the menu. Australia's three-year moratorium on it ... expired on December 12. The National Food Authority will soon develop "standards on the process of ... issue. Food is irradiated by exposing it to gamma rays emitted by cobalt 60. The process kills bugs like ...
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Uranium: making the world a dirtier and more dangerous place
Ian Lowe, emeritus professor of science at Griffith University and president of the Australian ... Conservation Foundation, spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly 's Dave Riley about the nuclear debate. The Australian ... nuclear power. I don't know of any objective study in Australia that has ever concluded that nuclear ...
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Conferences to explore prospects for human liberation
sex worker Mish Glitter Pony; counsellor, supervisor and educator Elizabeth Anne Riley; sex educator, ... conference comes on the back of another victory for the trans male community. Conor Montgomery was the ... sageaustralia.org. On December 3, thousands of people will rally for full marriage equality outside the ALP national ...
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Qld election: The issues that won't go away
do as it pleases. But that hasn't happened — nor is it likely to. Legal reform of abortion is ... there are some issues in this state that we won't let go away." [Dave Riley is a member of the ... Dave Riley A day after admitting that he took policy leads from interstate ALP governments and New ...
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Technological parenthood: secrets and lies
COMMENT BY HELEN RILEY I would like to take up some of the issues raised by Margaret Allum in her ... it was likely that the child would always be aware of their connection to the original grouping and ... Western society, who you look like is an important component of "belonging". Family photos, ...
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Tea for two
By Dave Riley "It's started, hasn't it? I thought so. There'll be no peace ... I said. "Shall I pour you out a cuppa?" "Let it draw a bit longer, love. I like it to ... demonstrating, protesting against this or that. He's still a member of one of those socialist outfits, so ...
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Write on
student campaigns through organisations like NUS limits the ability of students to organise themselves. ... Riley's review (May 4) of Lewontin's recent genetics book. Science is generally distorted and ... Mbongeni Ngema I was excited by Norm Dixon's review of Mbongeni Ngema's new play Magic ...
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Gold Coast casual workers get organised
are conditions like for casual workers? The big employers, like the theme park operators, are some of ... The United Casual Workers Alliance, which campaigns for the rights of casual and lower paid ... workers, was launched on February 13 on the Gold Coast. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Dave Riley spoke with ...
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Music can give ‘voice to voiceless’
cheap if you roll like me and most of the world. When people ask me about why I write songs against the ... currently working on, it’s like all of our bands fucked and had a baby and that baby gets guests on its ... record like Boots Riley from The Coup, Blackbird Raum, Bouncing Souls, Lagwagon, Swingin’ Utters and ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
like to comment on the article by Dave Riley "Today's DIY Workshop: How to get deported" ... network member. The meeting is next to useless, involving things like getting a CV together (for the 100th ... time) and "self-esteem improvement". For missing one meeting (I had attended tens of others), ...
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Worlds apart
War of the Worlds Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Tom Cruise REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY I think ... of the war on terrorism as you like. For my money, I note an extreme ambivalence on Spielberg's ... Steven Spielberg's movie Empire of the Sun is one of the great films of the 1980s. So when it comes ...
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Write on
Olympics Sydney Nooo!! Robert Wood Surry Hills Too much meat Dave Riley's series titled The ... politics of eating (GLW 109-111), suffers from a distinct lack of politics and history. It is totally ... acceptive of agribusiness and does not question the "feed the man meat" culture, the distribution ...
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BRITAIN: English Socialist Alliance shut down
organisations, had been a viable left unity project for almost 12 years. Dave Riley interviewed Andy Newman of ... the Socialist Unity Network about the closure. Newman was a national executive member of the Socialist ... his town, which has continued despite closure of the national organisation. Newman is also member of ...
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Cabaret and its cousins in Oz
persona of Dame Edna, but creations like her are of the same primordial stuff from which it was born. ... By Dave Riley The youth radicalisation that swept the world in the '60s bore with it ... a confidence and an experimental imagination that invigorated all areas of creativity. This was especially true ...
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Greening It Up in Brisbane
partisan spontaneity of these nights is immensely appealing. For political activists, attendance is like ... touching home base to meet the like minded and recharge. For the newcomer, the lasting impression is of the ... By Dave Riley BRISBANE — The days when Fortitude Valley was the major local night spot have ...
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Socialist Alliance: what's worth defending?
activists and the like into a viable new formation, the likes of which Australia has not seen since the ... Socialist Alliance non-aligned national executive member Dave Riley continues a debate about the ... main dynamic of the project. That was primarily a catalyst, a vessel. The irony was that this unity ...
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Immunisation and social responsibility
immigration, but like much of the rest of restrictions on immigrants it's a Work Force Quality Control and ... Comment by Dot Tumney Human immune systems are fascinating. Large chunks of medical research are ... and whys of vaccination procedures. At all points in history, human and microbe have interacted. The ...
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Struggle in the Obama-era: what next?
found at http://socialistworker.org. Ken Riley, president of the International Longshoremen's ... full impact on working people of the Reagan revolution has taken a while to play out. And I feel like ... pre-programmed zombies of the centre-right — Clinton 2.0. Only three things, in my opinion, are highly likely ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
trying to find some one I can share this time with. I like to read, write and I have poetry. I am a very ... Holman Unit Holman 3700-8-D-9 Atmore Al 36503-3700 Volcanoes The French have chosen one of the worst ... places in the world to conduct their nuclear tests. Mururoa Atoll is the tip of a volcano that is ...
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Aged care for those who can pay
the guise of restructuring, the introduction of the universal bond is likely to yield a huge cash ... By Dave Riley Elderly people entering my local nursing home from this month could pay ... elsewhere. The chronic shortage of nursing home beds has been the bane of many families and health ...