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
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"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 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
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 GABRIEL MOLINA
HAVANA — A dispatch from the EFE news agency in July confirmed that a new method of producing the UN report on human development has resulted in Cuba being placed "among the world's least democratic countries, comparable with
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[The following is the editorial from the September issue of Workers
Liberty magazine. The Workers Liberty group is one of eight organisations
affiliated to the Socialist Alliance.]
Workers' Liberty has been arguing that the Socialist
BY STEVE CILIA
MELBOURNE — The September 16 meeting of the Socialist Alliance's
Melbourne branch preselected long-term anti-racist campaigner Arun Pradhan
as its candidate for the seat of Melbourne in the next state election.
Pradhan
Victory for Samsonite workers
On September 13, the last 29 workers illegally sacked by a Thai subcontractor of US luggage giant Samsonite were reinstated. The company gave assurances that it will not "interfere with trade union activities" or
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART — Three hundred people participated in a rally demanding “No
war on Iraq” on September 21. The rally was organised by Peace Coalition,
which met for the first time on September 15.
Speakers at the rally included
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — At a student general meeting on September 17, Wollongong
University students and staff voted overwhelmingly to declare their campus
a refugee safe haven and to donate money to escaped refugees.
Despite
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