One week to go, just $9000 more to raise
Peter Boyle
In just nine weeks our supporters have donated and raised $91,033! It has been an inspiring effort.
Several hundred dollars were donated last week by US supporters in response to the letter
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Pip Hinman, Sydney
Labor won all three NSW parliamentary by-elections on September 17, but with swings against new Premier Morris Iemma's government of 4-12%. In Marrickville, the Greens scored their highest vote ever for a lower house seat,
Message Stick: Us Mob (Part 5) — Follows the adventures of a group of Indigenous kids who live in a community on the fringe of Alice Springs. ABC, Friday, September 23, 6pm.
Sex 'N' Pop: Sexual Healing — Is it true that a dreadful comeback of
Sarah Stephen
Ian Skiller is not your average farmer. A horticulturalist from the small Victorian town of Tooleybuc, on the Murray River near Swan Hill, Skiller has become one of Rural Australians for Refugees' (RAR) most well-known public faces.
Would your organisation, class or workplace like to experience an eyewitness presentation of Venezuela's revolutionary transformation? Participants in the first Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Brigade are now available to visit you! Email
Sixty-five per cent of citizens across the world do not think their country is governed by the will of the people, according to an opinion poll commissioned by the BBC. The Gallup International Voice of the People 2005 poll questioned 50,000 people
Sue Bull
As we watch the ALP implode and explode through the revelations of its former federal leader, Mark Latham, I can't help but think that it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of bastards. I loathe and detest John Howard and his
Ron Perkins, Perth
At least 700 union delegates met in East Perth on September 13 to discuss the next steps in the campaign against the federal government's planned new anti-union laws. Held at ME Stadium, the mass delegates' meeting was addressed
The UN's Human Development Report 2005, released in New York on September 9, has praised the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as "an example of a country that has converted high [economic] growth into rapid human development". The report adds that
Louay Alzaher
Iraq was plunged into mourning on August 31 after some 1130 Shiite Muslims lost their lives in a stampede in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad the previous day. The stampede was caused by rumours that there were suicide bombers in a
SYDNEY — On September 16, the socialist youth organisation Resistance initiated a speak-out against PM John Howard's proposed industrial relations reforms. Speakers at the protest, outside McDonald's at Circular Quay, highlighted the damaging
CANBERRA — On September 8, a new peace coalition was formed in the ACT. Attending the meeting were representatives from the Greens, the left caucus of the Labor Party, the ACT Council of Churches, the Quakers, the Socialist Alliance, Unions ACT,
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