Palestine is Still the IssueDocumentary by John PilgerThursday, October 8, 8.30pmSBS
REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE
John Pilger's documentary, Palestine is Still the Issue, is a moving and powerful indictment of Israel's illegal occupation of the West
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No war on Iraq!
LAUNCESTON — Thirty-five people attended a "No war on Iraq!" public forum at the Royal Oak Hotel on September 15, organised by Launceston Socialist Alliance.
Vicki Walker of the Socialist Alliance and Debbie Butler of the
The right medicine
Regarding John Percy's article, "DSP discusses major left unity initiative" (GLW #508) on the DSP's national executive's September 2 decision to propose to its membership to liquidate publicly in 2003, and put all available
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — At the first such day-long forum in Sydney for years, 50
activists spent September 15 analysing and debating the many facets of
the backlash against feminism that has been gathering momentum in Australia,
and
BY AMIE HAMILTON
PERTH — On September 17, the University of Western Australia Student Guild decided at a special council meeting to hold a referendum on October 22 on whether or not UWA should be declared a refugee safe-haven.
The Student
[The following statement was issued by the national executive of the
Socialist Alliance on September 18.]
We are approaching the moment when the richest country in the world,
with the most powerful armed forces and most destructive arsenal
BY CHRIS SLEE
Australian Taxation Office (ATO) workers around Australia, members
of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), went on strike for two
hours on the morning of September 18. The strike followed the breakdown
of
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — When the Cross-Campus Women's Collective heard that the
“male” magazine FHM was putting on a “Miss University” competition
at the Tivoli Theatre in Fortitude Valley on September 17, it called for
a protest of the
Maaate!
"Federal Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott last night seized on a Queensland government report by [former Labor PM] Bob Hawke recommending a time limit for protected industrial action by the state's 200,000 public sector workers."
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — Against the backdrop of a looming US-led war on Iraq, some 300 activists participated in the first Sydney Social Forum on September 20-21.
The SSF hosted 65 workshops and six feature panels. Topics discussed included
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Readers of the September 14 Age newspaper may have thought they were about to get a real inside story when they saw the front-page teaser: "Craig Johnston: The Making of a Middle Class Revolutionary".
But they would
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE — After a week
of determined campaigning by students, academics and staff, the refugee
sanctuary referendum on Newcastle University finished at 3pm on September
20. More than 700 students voted in the week-long
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