The anti-NT intervention campaign
Debate moved from another thread on request! If someone wants to write a longer introduction, send it to me and I’ll post it.
More on APEC
Norm Dixon asked if this statement by Alex Bainbridge and Pip Hinman could be posed on LW.
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Two years
That’s the length of time the Barwon 13 will soon have spent in prison. They’re still waiting for a trial.
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demonstrating the point?
The other day I had the (always interesting) experience of catching a glimpse of the Left as it appears from the outside. I was sitting in a university lecture when it was lecture-bashed by someone explaining about an upcoming NUS National Day of Action.
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Melbourne model?
Could someone who knows more about it than me write a post on the Melbourne model? I’d be interested in hearing the response from the NTEU and the student union, as well as whether people think that it represents the inevitable shift of education across Australia.
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fairness is at a high - yet it feels so bad
John Howard is crowing in the newspapers today about unemployment figures being at a 32 year low.
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David pleads G…et me out of here
I don’t have time to write a post now but just wanted to start a thread on David’s guilty plea and its ramifications. Please post any updates at they come to hand.
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wondering about women’s day?
Did anyone encounter International Women’s Day this year? It seemed to pass me by. Well, that’s not quite true. I read a few Age editorial pieces about it, noticed some IWD ribbons at work courtesy of the state government and narrowly avoided being knocked down in the corridor by a large bunch of purple, green and white balloons.
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lw: what it is and how to write it
10 months, 581 posts, 6220 comments later, it’s perhaps time to have a think about how leftwrites is going.
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one step forward, two steps back
Although the increasing clamour to get David Hicks out of Guantanamo has been encouraging, the bad news is that prosecution has just won the right to retry Jack Thomas.
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sexual positions on the left
I know it’s a bit old hat now but for a long time I’ve been wanting to use Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs as a starting point for a discussion about the Left’s attitude to pornography and related questions of sexuality.
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All G-ed up for union action?
On the eve of the national protest against the Howard Government’s IR laws, I thought it would be a good time to compare analyses of where people think the campaign is at.
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