Students organise against attack on arts school
By Alex Bainbridge
HOBART — The Tasmania University Union (TUU) has organised a campaign to protect the university's art school from "rationalisation". The administration is considering closing
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Green candidate proud of 'activist' tag
By Stephen O'Brien
NEWCASTLE — The NSW Greens' number one Senate candidate, university lecturer John Sutton, is proud of his "activist" tag, which right-wing critics have levelled at him for his role on
By Jorge Jorquera
September 11 marks the 25th anniversary of the overthrow of the left-wing president of Chile, Salvador Allende, by the military. The bloody coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power ended with the assassination of Allende and
Rally in the Valley
By Chris Dawson
BRISBANE — The second in a series of anti-racism community rallies organised by the Democratic Socialists and Resistance took place in the Chinatown mall, Fortitude Valley, on September 5. With the slogans
Looking out: To death
By Brandon Astor Jones
"At the door of life, by the gate of breath,There are worse things waiting for men than death." — Algernon Charles Swinburn On August 13, at 10:01 am, I folded a piece of art paper into a makeshift
By Francesca Davis
On September 1, the federal government decided to withdraw from the forest assessment process for north-east NSW. The assessments are the basis for 20-year regional forest agreements between governments, the timber industry and
By Margaret Allum
While distributing 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly shortly after Pauline Hanson's recent announcement that she would publicly release her pre-election speaking itinerary, a passer-by cautioned: "Don't demonstrate outside her meetings, it only
By Sue Boland
"Get ready for class war", wrote Sydney Morning Herald columnist Paul Sheehan in response to the release of the Labor Party's tax package. This theme was continued by other columnists and by Prime Minister John Howard. Howard told the
By Lisa Macdonald
On August 27, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution which might enable progress towards the lifting of UN sanctions against Libya. The resolution proposes that the Libyan government hand over, for trial in the
By Norrian Rundle and Michael O'Reilly
On September 1, primary and secondary school teachers in the eastern half of Victoria stopped work. Schools in the western half of the state took stop-work action on August 18. The half-day stop-work on
Pakistan Labour Party condemns bill
Following is an abridged version of the text of a statement issued by the general secretary of Pakistan's Labour Party, Farooq Tariq, about the Pakistan government's Fifteenth Amendment Bill. The Fifteenth
By Alison Dellit
On September 2, Warren Snowdon, federal ALP candidate for the Northern Territory, announced that Labor was unable to determine until after the election whether or not it would close the Jabiluka uranium mine if elected. Snowdon
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