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Issue No. 177 | 09 May 2003 |
Joining The Dots
Interview: Staying Alive Bad Boss: The Ultimate Piss Off Industrial: Last Drinks National Focus: Around the States Politics: Radical Surgery Education: The Price of Missing Out Legal: If At First You Don't Succeed History: Massive Attack Culture: What's Right Review: If He Should Fall Poetry: If I Were a Rich Man Satire: IMF Ensures Iraq Institutes Market Based Looting
Combet Calls On Unions to Muscle Up Hotel Workers Trump Living Wage Abbott Brushes Security Concerns Rebates Thorn in Medicare Side Bosses Infected With SARS Hysteria Entitlements: Bargaining Chip Ploy Fails Nelson Plan Faces Higher Hurdle Public To Pay For Patrick Closure Airline Ratbags Bigger Than Texas Credibility Crisis for World Bank
The Soapbox Solidarity The Locker Room Postcard Bosswatch
Massive Attack Teamwork Tom Solidarity
Labor Council of NSW |
Activists Activists Notebook
A Saharawi Woman Speaks Out in Australia In May/June 2003 a representative of the Saharawi people, Fatima Mahfoud, will visit Australia and New Zealand to tell the story of the Western Sahara conflict from a Saharawi woman's point of view. She will share her experiences of life in the refugee camps where her people have been living in unbearable conditions for 26 years whilst their families remain trapped in the territories occupied by Morocco where they suffer human rights abuses. It is the first time a Saharawi woman has visited Australia. UN Referendum Fatima is visiting Australia to explain the history of the conflict in Western Sahara and to raise awareness of the crucial need for a UN-brokered referendum. There are strong parallels between the East Timorese and the plight of the people of Western Sahara who are still waiting for their referendum. Hear Fatima speak: Sydney Uni Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies 10 June 12.30 - 2.00 pm Public Meeting at Sydney Trades Hall, 10 June from 6 - 7 pm Politics in the Pub on Friday 13 June, 6 - 7.45 pm Further information n Find out about the Australian tour: n Email: [email protected] or [email protected] n Phone: Lesley Osborne: (02) 9810 5372 or Paul Reid 0407 242 092 n Contact Cate Lewis 03 9489 4007 about the Melbourne part of the tour Find out more: www.awsa-westernsahara.org 1956: REMEMBERING AND REFLECTING. A discussion by participants and witnesses about 1956 and the impact of Nikita Kruschev's "secret speech" upon Australian communists.
Speakers are Bob Walshe, Eric Aarons, Elaine Bryant, Bob Gould.
Venue: PSU House, Level 7, 191 Thomas Street, Sydney
Time: 2-5pm Sunday, May 18.
Organised by the Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
All welcome.
Inquiries to Julie (02) 9557 8097. ****************** Juanita Nielsen Memorial Lecture Wednesday 21 May 2003 6.15 pm for 6.30 pm start Jubilee Room, Parliament House Macquarie St, Sydney Guest Speaker: Maree O'Halloran President, NSW Teachers Federation
Maree O'Halloran will deliver this year's Juanita Nielsen Memorial Lecture, focusing on Aboriginal education. Maree is a strong campaigner for social justice and an advocate for public education.
Introduction: Dr Rae Francis, Australian historian Rae will speak about the significance of the Green Bans era and Juanita's contribution.
Chair: Soraya Kassim, community development worker
Juanita Nielsen, publisher of the independent paper Now and active campaigner against high-rise development in Kings Cross, disappeared in July 1975. Her murderers were never brought to justice. The investigation was reopened last year. The circumstances of her disappearance remain unresolved but it is commonly believed that she was murdered because of her stand for the environment and the rights of low income residents.
Organised by Greens MP Lee Rhiannon RSVP - (02) 9239 3551 *************** n
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