BY BERNIE WUNSCH
LISMORE — The refugee solidarity movement in the Northern Rivers
region has grown rapidly. Around 400 people attended pro-refugee meetings
in the space of four days.
The February 15 launch of the Lismore chapter of
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BY SARAH PEART
GLASGOW — Fifty delegates attended the founding conference of the Scottish Socialist Party's youth network, Scottish Socialist Youth, on February 9.
A central campaign for the SSY will be a campaign to legalise cannabis. Two very
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — May 1 is set to become "no-war May Day" after the February 5 meeting of the M1 Alliance. Adopting a call to action, the alliance is planning protests based around three slogans: no war on refugees; no war on the
BY CHRIS ATKINSON
DARWIN — There are not many places in Darwin for young people to hang out. Casuarina shopping mall is the main place. But the centre's management and its private security firm, Group 4, are often less than welcoming of young
BY ALISON DELLIT
The rapid unravelling of Governor General Peter Hollingworth's credibility highlights the problems inherent in having an appointed head of state. By February 22, media monitor Rehame estimated, based on talkback radio responses,
Virtual monarch
"We all know she doesn't really exist any more, but we can't quite bring ourselves to tell her or admit it." — New Zealand Herald columnist Brian Budman, on Queen Elizabeth II.
Perish the thought!
"I would have thought that it
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Every asylum seeker has the right to a lawyer, don't they? That's what the law says. Section 256 of the 1958 Migration Act states: "Where a person is in immigration detention ... the person responsible for his or her immigration
BY PETER McINNES
JOHANNESBURG — Around 480 voluntary retrenchments have been offered to municipal workers at the recently privatised Kelvin power plant.
Kelvin, a coal-powered electricity station, provides 25% of Johannesburg's electricity
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Manufacturing union organiser Greg Cooper joined a delegation of business leaders on February 22 to appeal to the federal government for financial assistance to shipbuilding company Incat. The union's call for
BY SUE BULL& JEREMY SMITH
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is a young union by Australian standards. Formed in 1995 from five existing unions, it now represents more than 25,000 workers in post-secondary education institutions. The NTEU
BY RYK MOLON
DARWIN — Socialist Alliance candidate for Lord Mayor Ruth Ratcliffe and Independent Education Union organiser Simon Hall, who recently resigned from the Labor Party over its support for mandatory detention of refugees, addressed a
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — Last week there was a massive escalation in Israel's military attacks against the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. On a nightly basis, Israeli F-16 warplanes have dropped bombs over Palestinian
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