SYDNEY — Queer activists protested outside the $100-a-head fundraising dinner held by Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party on September 13. Nile is leaving his NSW parliamentary seat to contest the Senate in the federal election. Nile has
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Marce Cameron, Brisbane
On September 26, PM John Howard will be in Brisbane to officially launch the Coalition's election campaign. A broad alliance of community organisations, activist groups and progressive political parties has called for a
Humphrey McQueen
Craig Johnston isn't in jail because of the offence to which he pleaded guilty. He's in jail because of the totality of his political activities over the last 10 and more years.
The judges made that very clear in the appeal
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Rightby Al FrankenAllen Lane Press, 2003379 pp, $35 (pb)
It's a very old joke — "How do you tell when a politician is lying?" — but the punchline
James Caulfield, Canberra
The Socialist Alliance launched its election campaign for the seat of Fraser outside the offices of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root on September 16. The alliance's candidate, James Vassilopoulos, was
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Graham Matthews spoke with Richard Frankland, founder and lead Senate candidate for Your Voice, a new Indigenous-based political organisation contesting the Senate in Victoria in the federal election. Your Voice boasts former
Eva Cheng
Veteran pro-worker and pro-democracy activist Leung Kwok-Hung was elected on September 12 to Hong Kong's 60-member Legislative Council — the ex-British colony's quasi-parliament. Leung, 48, is best known as "Long Hair".
Since Britain
Gemma Pinnell is the Australian Greens candidate for the traditionally Labor-held seat of Melbourne. In the 2002 Victorian state election, Pinnell gained the highest Greens vote across the state when she polled 28% in the seat of Richmond. She spoke
Norm Dixon
On September 16, at least 800,000 government workers, including 300,000 teachers, took part in what the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) described as the "largest strike in South Africa's history". Members of eight public
ARGENTINA: Occupied factory defended
On September 14, a delegation of 100 workers from Zanon, a factory under workers' control, and 70 participants in the Unemployed Workers Movement, travelled to Buenos Aires as part of a campaign to defend the
Liam Mitchell
Tens of thousands of trade unionists participated in rallies in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on September 15 to demand that the James Hardie company, which dominated the Australian market for asbestos products throughout the 20th
It is no secret that the US would like to oust radical left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from power. So it came as no surprise when US President George Bush ordered the imposition of partial sanctions against Venezuela on September 10,
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