BY PAUL MILLER
MELBOURNE
— The Melbourne West branch of the Socialist Alliance on August 27 selected
Justine Kamprad as its candidate for Footscray in the next Victorian election.
Kamprad is an activist in the Australian Manufacturing
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BY ALISON DELLIT
"Barry ... said Sammy looked a little bit blue and he was gasping... [Barry] went to ... use the phone and it didn't work, so then he said 'I'll run [to the farm down the road] and I'll get an ambulance'... Later, Sammy made this
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — To a packed Kurilpa Hall of 90 people, Craig Johnston, Victorian state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), gave a gripping account of union struggle Workers First-style.
Organised by the
BY ANDREW PHILLIPS
BRISBANE — Five-hundred people took the water on August 14 to protest the Queensland Labor government's plan to allow the Sun Aqua company to build a multi-million dollar sea cages and fish farms in a pristine part of Morton
The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
Sony Music
REVIEW BY
RICHARD PITHOUSE
Bruce Springsteen's new album, The Rising, has been marketed
as vigorously as his 1984 Born in the USA album and, as with that
album, has achieved massive
Via cruise missile
"We don't seek revenge. We seek justice out of love." — George "The Crusader" Bush, August 28.
As long as they don't live in Iraq
"My call to people in this country is that if you want to join on the war on terror, if you
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Despite much adverse publicity, 400 supporters of the
Skilled Six turned out on August 30 at Williamstown Town Hall for a dinner
to raise funds to help cover their legal costs.
It was a tremendous show of
JerusalemSteve EarleArtemis RecordsAvailable form <http://www.artemisrecords.com>
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Steve Earle is unrepentant, as one of his toughest songs declares. He makes no apologies for his past dissent and rebellion, and he
Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, Wollongong, WILL WILLIAMS, Brisbane">
Tampa Day across Australia
Tampa Day across Australia
Brisbane
BILL MASON reports that around 150 people rallied and marched in
inner
BY NORM DIXON
The democracy movement in the tiny southern African country of Swaziland is celebrating the August 22 High Court acquittal of opposition leader Mario Masuku on a charge of sedition.
The charge against Masuku, leader of the
As supporters of refugees' rights prepared to mark August 26, the anniversary of the rescue of 433 refugees by the MV Tampa, as Tampa Day to shame the federal government, immigration minister Philip Ruddock fought back.
On August 24, Ruddock had
BY ROBERT COX
SYDNEY — On August 24-25, just before the anniversary of the Tampa incident on August 26, a conference was held in Sydney titled, "The Tampa: one year on". Pax Christi Australia (NSW) and the Buddhist Peace Fellowship organised an
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