Sam Watson, a Queensland Murri leader and a Socialist Alliance Senate candidate in the coming Australian federal elections, condemned the recent raids by New Zealand police on the homes of Maori and other social movement activists, in the following statement released on October 24.
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Anti-war activists have again called for the Australian troops to get out of Afghanistan as a second Australian soldier this month was killed there.
NZ police raids
In his article in GLW #728 on police raids in Aotearoa [New Zealand], Stuart Munckton wrote: "Sam Buchanan, one of the four arrested in Wellington following a raid on an anarchist organising centre, told the NZ Herald he was in
If you鈥檝e sat in front a TV in the past few weeks, you鈥檒l have seen the message: Australians need to get 鈥渃limate clever鈥 just like the Howard government, which, we鈥檙e told, is encouraging and funding new, environmentally friendly technologies such as 鈥渃lean coal鈥. In fact, we鈥檙e led to believe, the government has put some $3.5 billion in recent years into new methods for combatting climate change.
CANBERRA 鈥 Two hundred and twenty people packed an auditorium at Parliament House for a 'People's Forum' hosted by the Greens, while the official 'leaders' debate' was televised live next door. The forum was led by Greens Senator Bob Brown and
The Book that Shook the World 鈥 The Little Red School Book has been described as "essentially a manual for kids on how to challenge the authority of the school system". SBS, Friday, November 2, 8.30pm.
Australia by Numbers: Brewarrina 2839 鈥
The infamous 聯worm聰 responded positively to PM John Howard聮s climate change announcements during Channel Nine聮s telecast of 聯The Great Debate聰 between Howard and ALP leader Kevin Rudd on October 21.
On October 15, on a vote of five to three, a Sydney City Council planning committee voted to send the development applications (DAs) for the distribution of mX, City Weekly and 9 to 5 to the next council meeting for approval.
A call for socialist ideas
Speaking at the launch of Socialist Alliance candidate Jim McIlroy鈥檚 campaign for the federal seat of Griffith, held by ALP leader Kevin Rudd, veteran socialist and university lecturer Gary MacLennan called for the continuation of the struggle for socialist ideas.
The movement to oppose genetically modified crops and foods in Australia received international support for its campaign with the October tour of the Consumers聮 Union of Japan (CUJ).
Kevin Rudd should overturn the ALP聮s policy of supporting the ban on same-sex marriage.
On September 21 about 200 people attended a forum on Sri Lanka organised by People for Human Rights and Racial Equality, a group comprising Sri Lankans of different ethnic groups living in Australia.
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