BY
ANDREW HALL
The launch of the revamped Labor Party refugee policy on December
5 has generated a renewed and much-needed debate over the need for a more
compassionate refugee policy.
Marketed by Labor leader Simon Crean and deputy
520
Bowling for Columbine
Written, produced and directed by Michael Moore
Opens December 26
At major cinemas
REVIEW
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Visiting the Bowling for Columbine web site is more like visiting
an activist site than a film
PERTH — Seventy-five
people dined and wined on a November 30 river cruise on the Swan River.
Greetings were presented by trade unionist Craig Johnston and Democratic
Socialist Party member Anthony Benbow. The cruise raised $900 for Green
Left
Solid lies
"The president of the United States and the secretary of defence would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction ... if they did not have a solid basis for saying it" — White House
MANILA — Some
20,000 militant workers, together with the urban poor and student youth,
celebrated National Heroes Day on November 30 with a vow to “continue Gat
Andres Bonifacio's struggle by resisting imperialist globalisation and
war”.
BY ALISON DELLIT
On December 5, ALP federal parliamentarian Carmen Lawrence announced her resignation from the party's shadow cabinet in protest at Labor's new policy on refugees and asylum seekers. In a blistering 20-minute statement, Lawrence
Boy Overboard
By Morris Gleitzman
Puffin Books
144 pages, $14.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY ANDREA BLAKE
Boy Overboard is a book that tackles the issue of refugees by humanising
their experiences. It is written for readers who are 10 years old
Islam and homosexuality
As a supporter of GLW, I am very disappointed that Leon Harrison (GLW #519) is attacking us like a right-wing columnist. It would have been very easy for him to contact myself through GLW, which has my email address and my
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BY PETER BOYLE
In real political terms the most important development in the November 30 Victorian election was the doubling of the Greens' vote — to 9.2% in the lower house and 10.3% in the upper house — and their beating the Liberals to win
COMMENT
BY MICK BULL
The position of the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry,
Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) on the question of “illegal” labour is
rather simple in comparison to some of the other branches of the union.
BY
MIKE KARADJIS
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, releasing a grand plan
for the resolution of the 28-year-old Cyprus conflict on November 11, has
given Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders a one-month deadline to agree on
its
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