Lisa has been an active socialist for 20 years. She began life as a left activist in the women's liberation movement, helping to establish the Canberra Rape Crisis Centre and Women's Shelter, where she worked for a number of years in the early 1980s.
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Pip Hinman, Sydney
Plans are underway in Melbourne and Sydney for "End the lies" demonstrations on the Sunday before the federal election. If the election is on August 7, then protests will take place on August 1. Anti-war coalitions across
Eva Cheng
Quoting the China Real Estate Association and the state-controlled China Securities News, the March 5, 2003, Washington Post reported that nearly 20% of China's housing stock stood empty (measuring about 130 million square metres of
Norman Brewer
A poll conducted last week by left-leaning German TV magazine Panorama revealed that more than a third of Germans would consider voting for a new left party, made up of expelled and resigned Social-Democrats (SPD) and disappointed
Politicians grilled about refugee policy
CANBERRA — A jam-packed forum on June 22 of 220 people organised by the Refugee Action Committee grilled politicians and activists on their policy and actions towards refugees.
ACT MLA Kerrie Tucker
Federico Fuentes
This year's national education conference will be held at an important juncture in the struggle to stop universities increasing HECS fees. The conference, which will be held in Sydney between June 30 and July 2, is an annual
On June 24, Durban, East London, Cape Town and Johannesburg each hosted hundreds-strong protests demanding that US President George Bush spend money on health care over warfare. The protests were organised by the Treatment Action Campaign, which
James Caulfield
Tom Frame is the Anglican bishop to the Australian Defence Forces, and was the only Anglican bishop to publicly support the Iraq war and Australia's involvement in it.
Frame spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly about how his views have
Sam Pillay
A multi-million dollar gold mine at Lake Cowal with an estimated yield of $1.2 billion threatens to desecrate a sacred site of the Wiradjuri people of West Wyalong-Parkes.
Lake Cowal is the largest inland lake in NSW and the Wiradjuri
A victory for women's rights was won on June 1 in the continuing battle for abortion access in the United States. A federal appeals court in California ruled that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 was unconstitutional. This law made a
Refugees I
What better way to tap into the minds of Big Brother TV fans than to highlight reality living such as refugees in mandatory detention. With World Refugee Day being celebrated on June 20, the timing of this courageous action couldn't have
Rohan Pearce
"There is no doubt in my mind that Australia's involvement in the Iraq conflict was consistent with our interests and our values... I believe in the US[-Australia] alliance because it is in our national interest and delivers enormous
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