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Write On: Letters to the Editor
the escapees from the genocide in West Papua? Essentially that is what Australia has done by launching ... go down in history as the day Australians reclaimed ANZAC from the politicians. Starting with ... remember all those who had been killed by war" and finishing with sunset services across Australia in ...
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Where will your preferences go?
the voters to "number every square". In Western Australia the Greens (WA) lower house ... Democrats, then in succession to the Natural Law Party, the Republican Party of Australia and a group made up ... of Santa Claus and Lord Rolo before going to Green Alliance. In South Australia the Democrats have ...
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Turkey: After Afr卯n occupation, Erdo臒an dreams of empire
Syria, and the resulting power vacuum allowed the region鈥檚 people to reclaim their democratic and ... the governments of Australia, Russia, Britain, along with NATO and the European Union, were relieved ...
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Come camp for climate action!
Action, beginning on July 10, will be an inspiring convergence of people from all over Australia who are ... fundamental issue of our time. Over the past three years, thousands of people across Australia have taken to ... Kyoto are not enough to solve climate change. Yet the Labor Party is still right behind Australia ...
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Photo essay: Far right/ultraleft fail to derail Safe Schools rally
right Reclaim Australia. They disingenuously claimed to "support the LGBT community" but that ...
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Carlo's Corner: What sick freak would want to 'win office' so they can torture kids?
respect for the far-right nutters who turn out for Reclaim Australia rallies proudly displaying swastika ...
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The republic: Labor's new ideological consensus
called on Australians to "reclaim" it. He stopped short however of proposing any democratic ... its 1987 document, Australia Reconstructed, the ACTU sketched out a more sophisticated ideological ... colonial policies. But this latter aspect never went anywhere close to severing Australia ...
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Going... going... gone? The slow death of the Murray Darling rivers
Australia's river systems. The Murray Darling system drains a vast, predominantly arid or semi-arid catchment ... of Habitat Australia, the Australian Conservation Foundation's Jason Alexandra and Tim Fisher ... seriousness of the situation is still not acknowledged by many of the power brokers in Australia. Last month, ...
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Thousands march on International Women's Day
rallies around Australia this year. Karen Fletcher from Brisbane report that around 1000 women responded ... Barben reminded the protesters of the socialist and labour movement origins of IWD in Australia and ... organised Reclaim the Night events in Geelong. Judith Arnott from the Barwon Domestic Violence Outreach ...
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Burmese students remember August 8
uprising was led by students, many of whom are in exile in Thailand, the United States and Australia. Green ... hadn't." The military started a systematic sweep of Rangoon, reclaiming occupied buildings, arresting ... countries, including Australia and the south-east Asian nations, despite expressing outrage at the time, are ...
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Frida Kahlo coming to the stage
of Western Australia and South Australia hosted an exhibition of Frida Kahlo's paintings and ... drawings. Since then, in Australia there has been an explosion of the interest in Kahlo which has existed ... worked as artists and the reclaiming of their roles in history and art movements provides inspiration and ...
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Transgender debate: against exclusion
exclude transgender women from the NOWSA (Network of Women Students Australia) collective. This opposition ... movement around the country, setting the precedent for transgender women to be excluded from the Reclaim ...
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Poor speech or just poor journalism?
a comment piece on October 26, called 鈥Australia, we need to talk about the way we speak鈥. Author Dean ... storytelling skills of Australia's diverse original languages 鈥 but what would he make of the creative ... Murphy is a linguist who works with Aboriginal communities reclaiming and reviving their languages. She ...
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Ezekiel Ox adds energy to activism
Australia, the United States and Britain with bands such as Full Scale, Mammal and Over Reactor. Ox is an ... Territory] intervention is one example of how it clearly manifests in Australia. Rudd says 鈥渟orry鈥 then ... reclaim the space for creativity, expression and humanity. That would make conditions a little riper for ...
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Wilfred Burchett as he never was
charmingly creepy capital of South Australia, also known as the "Athens of the South Pacific" and ... the "City of Churches". In the 1950s, Australia's former colonial master, Great Britain ... Whittlemore is Wilfred Burchett reclaimed, or rather damned by suburbia where he dies a miserable death. The ...
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VIETNAM: 60 years of independence
sought to "reclaim their property", only to be defeated militarily by the Vietnamese people in ... World Federation of Democratic Youth. Other participants included Australia's Democratic Socialist ... Australia's West Australian branch, delivered a special letter of solidarity from Chris Cain, WA MUA state ...
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Ali Humanyun fights for freedom
Australia, has been incarcerated inside the Villawood detention centre for two years and four months. He was ... "My father and brother have threatened to kill me. My brother wants to 'reclaim the family's ... Humanyun's case is like hundreds of others that the RRT has knocked back. Australia is a rich country that ...
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Don't be fooled by the two-party con trick
Herald Sun revealed that the Australian arm of Rein's company, Work Directions Australia, not only ... around Australia. It says it has ruled out nuclear power, but has agreed to more uranium mines. It has ... cheque. If we are to reclaim rights stripped away during the last 11 hard years, we need to begin building ...
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Anti-war notebook
Bensemann said that he wants a ceasefire, with troops returned to Australia. He contrasted his act of giving ... and rally on April 13. Around 150 people marched later that day in a Reclaim the Streets action, which ... by the Socialist Alliance, the forum was addressed by Bill Hartley from the Australia-Iraq Friendship ...
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Telling it like it is: Land rights and the pastoral industry
Obviously the history and culture of rural Australia means that there are many who can not conceptualise ... in rural Australia, not least of all workers in the beef industry. Current government policy is ... to smash the wharfies. Taylor says the "persistence of Aboriginal people in reclaiming their ...
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Thought-provoking reply to Helen Garner
the rise of economic rationalist politics in Australia, young women will have a lot to get angry ... events such as Reclaim the Night. There was no real discussion of the diverse perspectives of young women ... of Women Students in Australia conferences in recent years. Fundamentally, Trioli is correct to argue ...
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Action updates
government in South Australia. Speakers detailed the drive to privatise and cut back vital services; they ... a National Action "reclaim" Eureka Day rally. Both rallies were held in the northern suburb of ... pressure the federal government against renewing woodchipping licences in Western Australia's high ...
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Can the men's movement be pro-feminist?
reclaim their "true" masculinity in order to become whole men again. Mythopoeic thinking is ... to reclaim their pride as men. "However, will a men's movement motivated only by male ... this conservative potential has already been realised among some men's groups in Australia ...
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Write on
and China being eroded by traitors. W.G. Fox Brisbane Reclaim The Night I came away from this ... year's Reclaim the Night march in Sydney elated and frustrated. Elated because the rally mobilised over ... areas of life. It provides protection for everyone in Australia against discrimination based on ...
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Violence against women: Who's to blame?
unique to the US. Women in Australia have a one in three chance of being raped at some point. One in four ... more tragically, wife-murder is on the rise. In 1991, 42% of all women murdered in Australia were ... between 1968-1994.(NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 1994). One in three families in Australia ...