Student left set for election campaign
By Keara Courtney
SYDNEY — The left — organised in a grouping called Activate! — is set for a strong showing in Students Representative Council elections at the University of Sydney in September.
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ACOSS and poor people are complaining about a GST on food. But what about multimillionaires? We haven't paid taxes on much of anything for years, and now the government is going to make us (or our companies) pay GST
Old Indonesian communists still imprisoned
On August 17, justice minister Muladi announced the release from prison of 78-year-old Manan Effendi Tjokroharjo and 80-year-old Alexander Warouw. Both were Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) leaders in
Life of Riley: It was I
Just the other day I went for a walk. It was my lunchtime. The sun was shining, and the cold wind which normally blows from the south had dropped. Under my arm I carried a ration of all the main food groups.
After walking
Western Sydney anti-racism campaign
By Rupen Savoulian
PARRAMATTA — Despite driving rain, about 50 people representing many of western Sydney's migrant communities rallied here on August 22 against racism and the One Nation party. The rally
No alternative
"You give answers to the best of your intent and belief at the time, and if circumstances change, well, sometimes you have no alternative but to change." — Prime Menzies John Howard, about his decision as federal treasurer to
Tamils urge UN to probe alleged mass graves
Thousands of Tamils demonstrated outside the United Nations' European headquarters in Geneva on August 17 in support of a call for an international probe of alleged mass graves in Sri Lanka. Protesters
More budget cuts for schools
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — South Australia's specialised adult re-entry schools are facing cuts of $1 million each year for the next three years. Adult re-entry schools cater for people returning to study, as
Xanana denies BHP meeting
Xanana Gusmao, the imprisoned leader of the East Timorese resistance, has rejected an article in the August 20 Sydney Morning Herald which reported that a high level BHP petroleum representative recently met with him in
Looking out: Sisters and brothers
By Brandon Astor Jones
The warden said to me the other day,"Why come the black boys don't run offlike the white ones do?"I lowered my jaw and scratch my headand said (innocently I think) "Well, suh,I ain't for
These are the favourite web sites of Sean Healy, national coordinator of Resistance, the socialist youth organisation that has organised the high school student demonstrations against racism around the country. Sean's list appeared in the Icon
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