By Barry Healy
The Center for Voting and Democracy, an organisation in the United States that focuses on voter participation and fair representation, has released a report on elections to the House of Representatives titled "Monopoly Politics".
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Resistance activists discuss fight against racism
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — Thirty people came to the Resistance Centre on August 9 to hear Resistance national coordinator Sean Healy talk about strategies for fighting racism and the far
By James Vassilopoulos
On August 13, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) recommended to the Hunter Valley miners to continue negotiations and not resume their strike, following a recommendation by Justice Alan Boulton of
By Kate Davison and Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology council chambers were occupied by angry students on August 12 when the council, which is dominated by representatives of big business, voted narrowly in
By Jim McIlroy
BLACKWATER Striking Curragh coal miners remain defiant despite attempts by the company, ARCO, to break their picket line and intimidate workers. The strike has entered its 15th week, as ARCO steps up its pressure on the miners to
By Phil Hudson
MELBOURNE — In April, several thousand people attended a public event here to support the East Timorese asylum seekers. Following an excellent rock concert in the Treasury Gardens and an enthusiastic march through the city, a
Roxstop: leave it in the ground
It is more than 10 years since the first blockade at the Roxby Downs uranium mine in South Australia. The demand of those protesters was — "Leave it in the ground". A decade later, mining company WMC is planning
The myth of 'reverse discrimination'
The NSW Equal Opportunity Tribunal is currently hearing a case brought by Brett Halliwell against the owners of the (now closed) lesbian nightclub Sirens. Halliwell claims that he was refused entry to
Government allows US ballistic missile testing
The Australian government has agreed to cooperate with the US government in "Project Dundee" — ground to air Terrier missile tests off the coast of Western Australia. "These tests could threaten
This is a change?
"Pauline doesn't know what's going on around her any more." — George Merritt, chair of the SA Pauline Hanson Support Movement, who appears to have lost out in a power struggle among Hanson's lieutenants.
Where did they
Correction
In our previous issue, an article on a University of Tasmania rally against exam changes reported that a motion by Resistance members calling on the SRC to organise a boycott of exams was "unsuccessful". In fact, the motion was
Public meeting on Wik
By Rob Graham
ADELAIDE — Around 300 people attended a public meeting organised by Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) on August 11 entitled
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