LL:ART: New European Party of the Left Founded

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New European Party Of The Left Founded

by Victor Grossman, Berlin
published by portside

Eleven leftist and communist parties, meeting in Berlin on January
11th, finally agreed after ten years of discussion and debate to found
a party called the European Left. The parties agreed on a common
program but planned further debate on the statute, which will probably
call for a chairperson, an executive committee and a council of party
leaders. Eight other parties also attended the meeting did not join
but remained as observers, waiting for confirmation from their home
countries or considering the founding premature. The eleven who did
join decided the step was necessary in preparation for the June
elections to the European Parliament, which already has a leftwing
caucus but hopes to enlarge it substantially, especially with the help
of leftist parties in the ten new countries joining the European
Union. These include the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (the
Czech Republic), the Communist Party of Slovakia, the Estonian Social
Democratic Workers' Party and the AKEL of Cyprus, though the last
named, proportionately the strongest, was one of those deciding to
maintain an observer status. The eleven founding parties have a
membership of about a half million members.

According to Lothar Bisky, chair of the host party, Germany's Party of
Democratic Socialism: 'The time is ripe for a party of European
leftists. A Europe of peace, of justice, of openness and democracy is
impossible without a strong visible and self-assured Left.We will be
treading new paths and abandoning old models of thought," he said,
adding that the party should become more than simply a loose umbrella
organization. It should be a party open to varying work methods and to
democratic cooperation. The answer as to what kind of Europe the Left
wants will be more convincing "if we ourselves demonstrate the answer:
democracy, equality, transparency and tolerance are consensus and
prerequisite for our alternatives." Not party bureaucracy and party
diplomacy, but active engagement in politics, with changes in the
everyday life of the people as our goals.

The most active initiators of the new party were, besides the German
PDS, Italy's Party of the Communist Refoundation, represented by its
leader, Fausto Bertinotti, and Nicos Houndis of the Greek Coalition of
Left, Political Movements and Ecology (SYNASPISMOS). Also joining from
the start are the Communist Parties of France, Austria, Slovakia and
the left parties of Luxembourg and Spain.

Among those present but not immediately joining were the AKEL of
Cyprus, the Socialist Party of the Netherlands, whose leader Tiny Kox,
a Senator in the Netherlands, thought they should wait until they were
stronger. Until then he was satisfied with the caucus of the United
Left in the European Parliament as it now stands. Delegates from the
Norwegian Socialist Left Party and the Finnish Left Alliance expressed
their desire to cooperate but also decided to keep for now the status
of observer. Also undecided or waiting were the Greek Communist Party,
the Czech Communist Party and two Catalonian leftwing parties.

In the new program, the eleven founding members stressed eight main
demands:

1. No weapons of mass destruction from the Atlantic to the Urals but
rather a Europe of collective security without NATO or any military
alliance of the European Union.

2. A redistribution from rich to poor, solidarity, and social policies
aimed at full employment and job training, investment in ecology,
taxation of capital speculation. People not profits must become
central.

3. No attacks on human rights in the name of fighting terrorism but an
open Europe with human rights and asylum for refugees.

4. No trade war at the expense of the less developed countries but
courageous initiatives for just economic and political partnership.

5. Opposition to the concentration of the media in fewer and fewer
hands and a plurality of opinions, information, culture and education
with cultural variety, knowledge and information for all.

6. Ecological goals against CO2 emission, export of garbage, the
exploitation of energy resources and forests.

7. A rollback of growing sexist discrimination caused by
globalization, for equal rights for men and women.

8. A fight against the domination by capital and the rule of
capitalism. We want a different culture of life, work, production and
distribution.

"We orient ourselves toward the fight for peace, for anti-fascism,
anti-racism, democracy, social justice, feminism and ecology.We remain
open to all who cannot yet or do not wish to join us. We deeply
respect varied forms of cooperation and practice them so our continent
becomes more democratic, social and peaceful. "

The meeting and the founding of the new alliance or party - unions of
rightwing, Social Democratic , Green and other groups in the European
Parliament already exist, did not hide sharp differences of opinion on
the left in some 

LL:URL: vote in SMH poll on GE crops

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VOTE PLEASE!!!
ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST GE CROPS??

The Sydney Morning Herald's online poll re GE foods
and crops. Vote NOW at the following website:

http://smh.com.au/polls/form.html

PLEASE PASS ON QUICKLY.



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The problem with the gene pool is, there is no lifeguard.

Knowing is not enough, you must also act.

"If the people will lead, the leaders will follow." David Suzuki

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LL:DDV: SEX & DRUGS HISTORICAL TOUR - ST KILDA

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>

Below please find details of the 'Sex and Drugs Historical Tour'
proudly sponsored by Port Phillip Local Drug Strategy.

Join us for a jaunt through the laneways and byways of St. Kilda as we
explore how drugs and sex work became a part of the City's identity and
allure.  Music and performance bring to life the experience of sex
workers, drug users, residents and police as they play out the conflicts
that have been repeated on our streets since the 1880s.

7.30-9pm, Wed 28/1; Tues 10/2; Wed 25/2.  Meet O'Donnell Gardens
Fountain (next to Luna park), St Kilda.

If you interested in attending one of the performances, please email
Krys Galas or phone on 9209 6852 ASAP as places are strictly limited to
30 per performance .

Krystyna Galas
Business Support Officer
Neighbourhood Development
9209 6852
9536 2747
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LL:INFO: Powderfinger supports A Just Australia re refugees

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ARIA 'Album of the Year' Award winning band Powderfinger have contacted
A Just Australia to offer their support for our campaign.

They have invited A Just Australia volunteers to collect donations at
the doors and in the foyers of each of the venues on their 'Vulture
Street' tour. This should be an amazing opportunity with almost all
shows already sold out!

The tour dates are as follows:

DECEMBER

Friday 5 - ADELAIDE SA - Memorial Drive - 4 volunteers needed
Saturday 6 - MELBOURNE VIC - Rod Laver Arena - 8 volunteers needed
Sunday 7 - MELBOURNE VIC - Rod Laver Arena - 8 volunteers needed
Wednesday 10 - NEWCASTLE NSW - Newcastle Entertainment Centre - 4
volunteers needed
Friday 12 - SYDNEY NSW - Sydney Entertainment Centre - 8 volunteers
needed
Saturday 13 - SYDNEY NSW - Sydney Entertainment Centre - 8 volunteers
needed
Sunday 14 - CANBERRA ACT - Royal Theatre - 4 volunteers needed
Monday 15 - CANBERRA ACT - Royal Theatre - 4 volunteers needed

We are looking for volunteers - wearing special A Just Australia
t-shirts provided - to collect the donations in buckets as people enter
the venues and in the foyers.

As most shows have been sold out we cannot offer admission to the shows
but you might get friendly with the security people!

If you would like to help out please phone us on 02 9310 3900 or email
us at   [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon
as possible. We only found out yesterday so sorry for the very short
notice!

Cheers

A Just Australia
20 November 2003


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LL:DDV: Why and How of Social Democratic Renewal: Debate/dinner

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The Why and How of Social Democratic Renewal:Debate & dinner 5.30pm Tues
9/12, 'Forty-Five Downstairs' venue, 45 Flinders Ln
The Great AFS End-of-Year Conversazione: 'Catching the Wave: The Why and
How of Social Democratic Renewal': Pusey, Latham, Jacobs, Sawer and
Argy.

Tuesday, 9 December: 5 for 5:30pm and a 9:30pm finish. AFS members and
friends are invited to join in an end-of-year light meal and
'conversazione-style' discussion spectacular, on 'Catching the Wave: The
Why and How of Social Democratic Renewal' at the 'Forty-Five Downstairs'
venue, 45 Flinders Lane. Melbourne.

5:30 to 7pm: Opening addresses by Michael Pusey - author of 'Economic
Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes its Mind' and
'The Experience of Middle Australia: The Dark side of Economic Reform',
and ALP Shadow Treasurer Mark Latham.

7-7:30: Light meal and wine served while breakout groups each draft a
question for the final stage of the proceedings. 7:30 to 8:30pm: Panel
Addresses by former UK Fabian Society secretary Michael Jacobs, Marian
Sawer, Professor of Political Science and author most recently of 'The
Ethical State: Social Liberalism in Australia', and Fred Argy, author of
'Where to from here? Australian equalitarianism under threat' and
'Australia at the Crossroads: Radical Free Market or a Progressive
Liberalism?'.


8:30 to 9:30pm: Breakout Groups direct their questions to the speakers.


Cost (including meal): AFS members $35, non-members $40, concession
(students and low wage) $25.

Accommodation is limited, and early reservations are strongly
recommended, on the form that accompanies this 'Update'.


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LL:DDV: National Conference: "From Rhetoric to Reality"

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"FROM RHETORIC TO REALITY: MAKING HUMAN RIGHTS WORK"
RMIT UNIVERSITY, MELBOURNE, 9 + 10 FEBRUARY, 2004


from rhetoric to reality
Will provide an opportunity to engage with the practice of human rights
in our own communities. Over two days, service providers, educators,
advocates and service users will come together in workshops, facilitated
discussions and plenary sessions. The conference will build the capacity
of participants to make human rights work in their everyday practice.

plenary sessions
Inspiring speakers will provide an overview of human rights concepts and
mechanisms, including the United Nations Treaty System, human rights in
the Australian context, and human rights in the context of service
delivery.

keynote speakers
Include paul hunt, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to
Health; marcia rioux, Director of Disability Promotion Rights
International and Professor of Health Policy at York University, Canada;
krishanti dharmaraj, Executive Director of WILD for Human Rights, San
Francisco (to be confirmed); and jim ife, Chair of the Centre for Human
Rights Education at Curtin University of Technology.

organisational case studies
Will focus on the ways that community groups and governments have put
human rights into practice in their organisational development, funding
processes, policy advocacy and service delivery.

personal testimonies
Will highlight the ways that people in our community defend and promote
their human rights, making the link between international human rights
frameworks and domestic experiences.

small group workshops
Will provide all conference participants with the opportunity to develop
strategies to apply human rights to their own organisational
development, policy advocacy and service delivery work.

sponsored by
RMIT University Community Advocacy Unit, Victorian Department of Human
Services, VicHealth and the Human Rights Alliance of Australia.

further information
Early bird registrations close Monday 8 December.  Further details from
http://advocacy.tce.rmit.edu.au  .


  


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LL:DDV: MELB GAY & LESBIAN CHORUS & THE MELB RAINBOW BAND

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MELBOURNE GAY & LESBIAN CHORUS &  THE MELBOURNE RAINBOW BAND Free 
concert 8pm Sat 13/12

The Melbourne Gay & Lesbian Chorus and the Melbourne Rainbow Band
proudly present

'Don We Now Our Gay Apparel'

A free "family" Christmas event.

Featuring the wonderful Linzi Kurlieff as MC.

8.00pm Saturday 13 December 2003
The Courtyard at Fresky's Bar & Lounge
169 Commercial Road
Prahran

Bring the whole "family" for a riotous Christmas sing-a-long!!!

Contact: Peter Chalk, Vice-President, Melbourne Gay & Lesbian Chorus
   0439 704 669

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LL:DDV: NIBS christmas party - Friday 5 December

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Subject: NIBS christmas party

Santa was a capitalist pig!

That's the theme of the Xmas Party
for the New International Bookshop Co-op

Rod Quantock and the gang would love you to celebrate with us,
and of course look for your prezzies amongst the fiction, the fact
books, the t-shirts and the paraphenalia

Friday 5 December from 5.30pm
First drink free, then finger food and bar prices. All welcome!

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LL:DDV: Book launch - Don Watson's 'Death Sentence'

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Don Watson - Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language
Friends

Rosie Tovey and Gerry Tickell, proprietors of Chronicles Bookshop in
Fitzroy Street St Kilda have asked me to introduce Don Watson at the
launch of his current book "Death Sentence: The Decay of Public
Language" on the 8th December at the West St Kilda RSL, 23 Loch Street,
West St Kilda at 6.30 pm.

As you know Don Watson's last book was Recollections of a Bleeding
Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM and we are very fortunate to have
Don Watson return to launch Death Sentence: The Decay of Public
Language.

Don Watson is a charming, witty raconteur, and a social and political
critic. His new book is about how our language is under threat and is
being butchered by politicians (not me I hope), corporations and the
media. I've read it, and I can highly recommend it.

I will be introducing Don Watson at the West St Kilda RSL, 23 Loch
Street, St Kilda at 6.30 pm on Monday 8th December 2003 and I look
forward to seeing you there.

Please forward this message to others on your mailing list who won't
want to miss this terrific launch of a brilliant book!

Call Rosie and Gerry on 9534 1994 to let them know you'll be coming
along.

Regards

Johan Scheffer
Member for Monash Province
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LL:DDV: Positive Women - Safe sex theatre presentation

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Positive Women - Safe sex theatre presentation- 11 am Sun 30/11,
O'Donnell Gardens, next to Luna Park
HIV ... .It couldn ' t happen to me ... .or could it?

A Safe Sex theatre presentation featuring well known Aussie Actors, Anne 
Phelan, from Something in the Air and Marshall Law, Janet Andrewartha 
from Neighbors, Debra Byrne from Les Miserables, Cats and Jacinta 
Stapleton from Stingers will be held at O ' Donnell Gardens next to Luna 
Park on Sunday 30th November at 11 a.m..

The actors will give a voice to the many HIV Positive Women in Victoria 
who have incredible stories to tell but cannot speak out themselves. 
The interviews have been collated, written and directed by Graham Pitts 
(Tour of Duty) to convey the message that HIV can happen to anyone, no 
matter who they are.

This event has been organized by Positive Women Victoria to raise 
awareness for HIV which is still rising in Australia and women and
children now represent more than 50% of the 42 million World AIDS
population.

Food and information stalls will also be available at the event.
For Further information contact Positive Women Victoria on
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LL:URL: Sign Fraser's petition to end detention of children

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Please take the time to read this.  If you agree with this message
please take the time to go to the attached website and sign the petition
to lend your support.  Please send this to all your contacts and friends.

Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser

To End Detention of Children and Separation of Families in Australia

To: Prime Minister John Howard and Senator Amanda Vanstone, Minister for
Immigration


Australia currently holds 94 children in Immigration Detention in
Australia and 90 in the Pacific.

Villawood 32 children
Maribyrnong 1 child
Baxter 22 children
Woomera Housing Project 7 children
Port Hedland 15 children
Port Hedland Housing 2 children
Christmas Island 15 children
Nauru 90 children
(November 2003 figures from A Just Australia)

The oldest children in detention are living out their teens behind razor
wire and electric fences. The youngest is a baby born a month ago, who
was placed in detention in Baxter shortly after his birth. The physical,
emotional and psychological damage detention inflicts on children is
well documented and not in dispute. Some children in Australian
detention centres have been unnecessarily imprisoned for years. In
Sweden the maximum time a child is kept in custody is six days.

Detention of children is in several instances part of the enforced
separation of families. Current solutions to the detention of children
are inadequate and fail to fully protect children's needs and rights.
Mothers and children are housed under guard in houses outside the centre
while fathers remain inside. Boys older than 12 have been separated from
their mothers and forced to live in the detention centre proper.

Under the regulations of the Temporary Protection Visa some families are
split, with dependent children stranded in other countries, and their
parents unable to find a solution that will reunite the family. These
families live in uncertainty, fear and intense anxiety. Their children
suffer in ways that would terrify any parent.

The detention of children and the Temporary Protection Visa, especially
its effect on separated families, breach Australia's obligations under
international conventions and protocols.

This is not how we as Australians want to treat families. The needs and
rights of children must be put first. We the undersigned call for an
immediate end to the detention of children. We call for an immediate
change to regulations that enforce separation between parents and
dependent children. We call for changes in legislation that will protect
future children arriving unauthorised on Australian territory or in
Australian waters. Damaging children is not acceptable to us as
Australians.

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LL:DDV: Canto Coro 10th anniversary concerts

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CANTO CORO's 10th Anniversary Concert - DECIMO -

CANTO CORO is a community choir of 60 women and men of all ages who sing
passionate music of liberation from Greek and Hispanic traditions.

FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER8.00PM
SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER  3.00PM AND 8.00PM
SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER8.00PM

Collingwood Secondary College Theatre
Corner Cromwell Street & McCutcheon Way
Melway Ref: 2C G9

The choir will be singing some of its best-received works from the last
decade including sections of AXION ESTI, CANTO GENERAL, MISSA CRIOLLA 
and 1975 (Canto Coro's latest commissioned work co-produced by Melbourne 
Workers Theatre at North Melbourne Arts house in May-June 2003).

GIOCONDA VATCKY and JEANNIE VAN DE VELDE will be providing glorious
solos and we wil be joined by the inspirational INKA MARKA and,
hopefully, a small Mandolin group.

Musical Director: Peter Mousaferiadis

TICKETS on sale from MARYANN on 9386 8819
$20 and $15 concession
(Cheaper if you buy from a choir member before 15 November)
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LL:DDV: A Just Australia Melbourne Fundraiser Wednesday 26/11

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A Just Australia Melbourne Fundraiser - 7pm, Wednesday 26/11
Wednesday 26th November 2003
Sir Redmond Barry Room
Level 46, 55 Collins Street, Melbourne
7.00pm to 8.15pm

Ian Chappell, Phillip Adams, other Patrons and Board Members will be
speaking about the continuing challenges facing those who came by boat
over two years ago, our campaign to date, and our plans to use the 2004
Federal Election year to advance our goal:

We believe that Australia's policies toward refugees and asylum seekers
should at all times reflect respect, decency and traditional Australian
generosity to those in need, while advancing Australia's international
standing and national interests. We aim to achieve just and
compassionate treatment of refugees, consistent with the human rights
standards which Australia has developed and endorsed.


Donations will be sought from $100.00 per person
and we will explain the need for ongoing support

Please RSVP on (03) 9821 0611, or to
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LL:DDV: bevkids quiz night - be on the winning table!

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From: Louise Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dear Everyone

Would you like to come to a fabulous quiz night for a marvellous cause
on FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER AT 8PM AT TRADES HALL?

There will only be ONE winning table at this quiz night and it's going
to be MINE!

So come along and help this fabulous cause. The details are below with a 
little bit of information on why you should support this worthy cause.

Don't just turn up - email me or ring me and be on the winning table.

Louise Connor
Industrial Organiser
Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance
Tel: 03 9691 7125
Mb: 0438 241 211
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WHO ARE BEVKIDS AND WHY DO THEY NEED YOUR SUPPORT?

Here is a copy of a media release that explains why this brave bunch of
anti-uranium activists are sueing the SA Police. Their lawyers are
working pro-bono but there are plenty of other costs that they will need
to meet...
FRIDAY MAY 2ND 2003

ENVIRONMENTALISTS ISSUE CLAIM IN SUPREME COURT AGAINST S.A. POLICE

Today, a group of 13 including environmentalists, a commercial cameraman
and an aboriginal minor are issuing a claim against the South Australian
police for violence, brutality and the deprivation of liberty.
The claim arose from a protest action at the Beverley Uranium Mine in
May 2000, in which local and STAR force police officers reacted with
extreme violence, using batons, capsicum spray and vehicles to subdue
environmentalists.

Melbourne-based QC Brian Walters and barrister Klaus Mueller represent
the group and are available for comment.

In the statement of claim they assert that the police "wrongfully and
maliciously conspired amongst themselves to injure the plaintiffs by
unlawful means."

An 11-year-old local adnyamathanha girl was capsicum sprayed, a young
man was targeted by police and beaten by 8 officers in full view of the
assembled group, and the police used capsicum spray as if it was fly
spray on the fleeing crowd. The group filmed these and many other
horrific events, and a compilation of these images are available for
distribution.

The group seeks to defend the democratic rights of all Australians to
bear witness and object to issues relevant to the community.
Increasingly, the powers of the military and the state seek to threaten
the rights of the individual, freedom of speech and the right to
protest.

For a copy of footage or the statement of claim, an interview and more
details please contact-
0439 369 093
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LL:DDV: Vic Trade Union Choir CD launch - 7.30pm on Saturday 29

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Vic Trade Union Choir CD launch - 7.30p.m. on Saturday 29 November 03- 
Old Ballroom at Trades Hall

Comrades and Citizens,

The Victorian Trade Union Choir has produced a CD, titled Bring Out the
Banners, containing many of your favourite comradely tunes. It will be
launched, with a free concert, in the Old Ballroom at Trades Hall at =
7.30 p.m. on Saturday 29 November 2003.

Nibbles and bar drinks will be available. To help 'em plan the gig, you
might like to RSVP on 9479 3934 or email

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As you can see, I've attached a flier that you may care to show your
comrades and friends.

And, yes, since the Labour History Society has an unwritten code of
conduct, I have to declare an interest.  My wife Susanne Provis is a
member of the Choir.

Go to the gig, and they might even let you sing along.

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Peter Love
President
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LL:DDV: Jim Cairns send-off - 2pm Sun 2/11 - Trades Hall

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Jim Cairns send-off - 2pm Sun 2/11 - Trades Hall, Cnr Victoria & Lygon
Sts Carlton

Comrades and citizens,

We've had the state funeral, now for the comradely send-off.

The New International Bookshop, the Fabian Society and your very own
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History have organised a wake
to give Jim Cairns a rank-and-file farewell. It will begin at 2.00 p.m.
on Sunday 2 November in Paddy's Bar at Melbourne Trades Hall. Paul
Strangio, Jim's most recent biographer and Labour History treasurer, 
will speak.

Tributes 'from the floor' will be heard too.

We hope to see you there.

Cheers,

Peter Love.

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LL:URL: NTEU Petition against Higher Ed "Reforms"

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IF YOU AGREE PLEASE SIGN AND CIRCULATE TO OTHERS WHO MAY HAVE AN
INTEREST

Subject: NTEU Petition against Higher Ed Reforms
http://www.nteu.org.au//policy/crossroads/petition

The NTEU is coordinating a petition against some of the key proposed
Government 'reforms' of Higher Education - to be provided to the Senate.
In partiuclar the petition opposes:

a) any increase in HECS;
b) any increase in the number of domestic full-fee paying students at
university;
c) loans for full-fee paying students of up to $50,000 which bear 3.5%
interest above inflation;
d) a 5 year time limit for degree completion, with penalties for failing
subjects or changing courses;
e) the reduction of student, staff and community representation on
university governing councils;
f) forcing universities to dismantle collective bargaining for staff by
tying university funding to Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs);
g) restrictions of the right of university staff to take legitimate
industrial action in contravention of International Labour Organisation
(ILO) conventions.

You can sign the petition online at:
http://www.nteu.org.au//policy/crossroads/petition

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LL:DDV: Dept of Sustainabilty & Environment forum re water

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Dept of Sustainabilty & Environment forum re secring our water future -
5.30pm Thurs 16/10 Swanston Room, Melbourne Town Hall

It would be appreciated if you could circulate this attachment inviting
interested stakeholders to the government's Green Paper public 
information forum next Thursday 16 October 2003.

Thanking you.

Kind regards

Kerrie Homan
South East Catchment Planning

Phone: 9235 2231
Fax: 9235 7168
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LL:DDV: Saving Point Nepean - Ring the Bell Rally 2pm Sun 5/10

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-Original Message-
From: Alison Rock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2003 1:05 PM
Subject:



Saving Point Nepean
E-letter No 5

One National Park for all of Point Nepean

Ring the Bell Rally
25-Metre Range Point Nepean
5 October 2003
2.00pm

On the eve of the closing of tenders for the lease of 90 hectares of
Point Nepean, the Victorian National Parks Association, the National 
Trust of Australia (Victoria) and many other groups and individuals will 
be gathering at Point Nepean.

We will be ringing bells to celebrate the special natural and cultural
heritage values of Point Nepean: 19th and 20th century heritage
buildings of the Quarantine Station and breathtaking coast and seascapes.

But we will also be ringing bells to send out a distress signal, a
warning of the serious threat to Point Nepean from the proposal to lease 
to a developer/operator, the 90 hectares containing the Quarantine 
Station and threatened coastal moonah woodland.

Disintegrated management threatens the integrity, fabric and spatial
association of the Quarantine Station buildings, and the present
proposal exempts developers from local and state planning and 
environment controls, and avoids the protection afforded by the new 
national heritage legislation that comes into force in 2004.
There will be a big bell for all of us to ring, but please bring along
your own as well!

On a day when we are sounding the red alert for Point Nepean, please
wear something red: a scarf, a jumper, a jacket, a hat, a skirt, some 
slacks?

On Sunday 5 October please visit Point Nepean, absorb its wonder and
majesty, hear informed speakers, and find out what is proposed and how
your
voice can be added to so many others.

Please bring your friends and family, bring a picnic, bring a bell --
AND WEAR RED!

How to get to the Ring the Bell Rally

To get to the 25-metre Range (Melways Map 156 B2) follow the signs after
the Visitor Centre (Melways Map 156 C2) at the Mornington Peninsula 
National Park entrance. The 25-metre range is approximately two 
kilometres from the Visitor Centre, with Gunners Cottage car park 
another kilometre on. Car parking is also available at the Visitor Centre.

Please Note: Park Open Day

The rally happens to coincide with a Parks Victoria Open Day for the
Point Nepean section of the Mornington Peninsula National Park. This 
means that entrance to the park will be free, there will also be no 
charge for the trolley transporter to the tip of Point Nepean, and there 
will be ranger-led interpretive walks, rockpool rambles, face-painting, 
a sausage sizzle and roving entertainers between 10 and 2.00pm.

So why not make a day of it, visit one of Victoria's very special places
and at the same time help the campaign for its protection.

NB: The rally and the Open Day do not include entry on to the
Commonwealth land at the Quarantine Station.


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LL:INFO: Saving Point Nepean E-letter No 5

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Subject: Fw: Saving Point Nepean E-letter No 5

Dear friend and colleague,

If you are 'seeing red' over Federal Government Plans to lease Point =
Nepean to commercial interests, it is still not too late to make your =
views known.

If you can, grab your family and few friends and enjoy an open day at =
Point Nepean (free admission) with entertainment, some bell - ringing =
and plenty more information on how we may yet save this National =
treasure as a National Park.

This Sunday, 5th October (see below).

Don't forget to wear your brightest red clothes!

Kind thanks and best wishes,

Neil Taylor.
56787406.

- Original Message -
From: Chris Smyth 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:03 PM
Subject: Saving Point Nepean E-letter No 5


Saving Point Nepean
E-letter No 5

One National Park for all of Point Nepean

Ring the Bell Rally
25-Metre Range Point Nepean
5 October 2003
2.00pm


On the eve of the closing of tenders (6 October) for the lease of 90
hectares of Point Nepean, the Victorian National Parks Association, the
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and many other groups and
individuals will be gathering at Point Nepean.

We will be ringing bells to celebrate the special natural and cultural
heritage values of Point Nepean: 19th and 20th century heritage
buildings of the Quarantine Station and breathtaking coast and
seascapes.

But we will also be ringing bells to send out a distress signal, a
warning of the serious threat to Point Nepean from the Commonwealth
Government's proposed leasing arrangements.

There will be a big bell for all of us to ring, but please bring along
your own as well!

If it were to go ahead, the Commonwealth Government's leasing proposal
for Point Nepean would be the worst possible outcome for our priceless
heritage. It would disintegrate the ownership, management and control of
Point Nepean's heritage; threaten the integrity, fabric and spatial
association of the Quarantine Station buildings; exempt developers from
public and local and state planning schemes and regulations; avoid the
protection of new national heritage legislation that comes into force in 04.

Point Nepean could be leased to commercial developers for five-star
hotels and other developments as early as 1 November -- that's only a
month away!


Are you seeing red?


On a day when we are sounding the red alert for Point Nepean, please
wear something red: a scarf, a jumper, a jacket, a hat, a skirt, some
slacks?

On Sunday 5 October please visit Point Nepean, absorb its wonder and
majesty, hear informed speakers, and find out what is proposed and how
you can help SAVE POINT NEPEAN.

Please bring your friends and family, bring a picnic, bring a bell  --
AND WEAR RED!


How to get to the Ring the Bell Rally


To get to the 25-metre Range (Melways Map 156 B2) follow the signs after
the Visitor Centre (Melways Map 156 C2) at the Mornington Peninsula
National Park entrance.  The 25-metre range is approximately two
kilometres from the Visitor Centre, with Gunners Cottage car park
another kilometre on.  Car parking is also available at the Visitor
Centre.


Please Note: Park Open Day


The rally happens to coincide with a Parks Victoria Open Day for the
Point Nepean section of the Mornington Peninsula National Park. This
means that entrance to the park will be free, there will also be no
charge for the trolley transporter to the tip of Point Nepean, and there
will be ranger-led interpretive walks, rockpool rambles, face-painting,
a sausage sizzle and roving entertainers between 10 and 2.00pm.

So why not make a day of it, visit one of Victoria's very special places
and at the same time help the campaign for its protection.


All of Point Nepean must be an integrated national park for all
Australians for all time!  No sale!  No lease!


NB: The rally and the Open Day do not include entry on to the
Commonwealth land at the Quarantine Station.


Chris Smyth
Marine Campaign Officer
Victorian National Parks Association
Level 3, 60 Leicester Street
Carlton VIC 3053
ph: 03 9341 6512
fax: 03 9347 5199
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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LL:INFO: Saving Point Nepean - E-letter No. 4

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Saving Point Nepean
E-letter No 4
Dear members and supporters
Please sign on to the Community Consensus Statement on Point Nepean
VNPA and the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) are facilitating a
Community Consensus Statement on Point Nepean (see below) in the lead up
to the closing of tenders (6 October) for the lease of the 90 hectares 
of Commonwealth land at Point Nepean.

The Consensus Statement is a reflection of the Victorian Community
Expression of Interest (EOI) in Point Nepean (you can see it on
www.vnpa.org.au ) facilitated by VNPA and the National Trust.
At the EOI's heart was the return of Point Nepean to Victoria for
inclusion within a national park.

The Consensus Statement reaffirms that objective and also articulates 
the community concerns about the leasing process for Point Nepean 
recently announced by the Commonwealth Government (for more detail see
www.vnpa.org.au).

We are very keen to gain your support, or that of your group, for the
Point Nepean campaign by signing on to the Consensus Statement.
If you or your group wishes to sign on all you need do is send Chris
Smyth a note by snail mail or email, or give him a call, or fax it back 
to him with the name and group's contact details (Chris's details are 
below). If you know of other groups or people that you believe would be 
keen to sign on, please forward this email to them.

We will eventually release the consensus statement and the list of
groups, individuals etc that have signed on to send a clear message of 
the widespread and growing community support for Saving Point Nepean. 
If you can get your details to Chris by noon on Tuesday 30 September it 
would be much appreciated.

COMMUNITY CONSENSUS STATEMENT ON THE FUTURE OF
COMMONWEALTH LAND AT POINT NEPEAN
We the undersigned community groups, associations, institutions,
agencies, companies and individuals concerned about the future of 311 
hectares of Commonwealth land at Point Nepean state that:

POINT NEPEAN is a national treasure, an icon of Australia's rich natural
and cultural heritage, with magnificent 19th and 20th-century
heritage-listed buildings, breathtaking coastscapes and seascapes, and 
threatened coastal moonah woodland.

POINT NEPEAN is endangered by the Commonwealth Government's impending
break up of the 311 hectares of Commonwealth land  205 hectares to the
Victorian Government, 17.6 hectares to the local council, and the 
remaining 85-90 hectares to private developers under lease.

We the undersigned oppose the Commonwealth Government's lease of the
advertised 85-90 hectares of Commonwealth land at Point Nepean (by 1
November 2003) because it will:
*   disintegrate the ownership, management and control of Point
Nepean's exceptional natural and cultural heritage

*   threaten the integrity, fabric and spatial association of
the Quarantine Station buildings, and encourage linear and
overdevelopment along the shoreline

*   be contrary to the Community Master Plan's vision of a
'public park managed as a whole'

*   exempt developers from public scrutiny and local and state
planning schemes and regulations designed to protect area's of
significant natural and cultural heritage such as Point Nepean

*   enable intensification of development simply by the private
developer and the Commonwealth Government agreeing to change lease
conditions or to convert the land to freehold

*   establish prior use rights for private developers who could
use them to prevent future governments and the local council removing
inappropriate and excessive developments as a means to improve the
protection and management of Point Nepean

*   avoid the protection of new national heritage legislation
that comes into force in 2004.

We the undersigned urge that:

The Commonwealth and Victorian governments forge a partnership with the
Victorian community to protect all of Point Nepean in a national park,
with the Victorian Government upholding its commitment to cover the 
ongoing management and restoration costs, and the Commonwealth 
Government providing the land.

All of the 311 hectares of Commonwealth Land at Point Nepean, including
the Quarantine Station and Police Point, be transferred to the Victorian
Government and added to the adjoining Mornington Peninsula National Park
under the management of one agency Parks Victoria.

Signed for and on behalf of:

__

IN OTHER NEWS
Despite the National Trust's avowed commitment to being apolitical, from
time to time it is involved in campaigns that regrettably fall along
party lines.  The National Trust's only interest s protection of Point 
Nepean.

The decisions made about Point Nepean endure well beyond the term of
individual governments and it is the decisions and not who makes them
that are of paramount consideration.

Parks Australia will not be involved in Point Nepean
Mrs Fran Bailey, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence
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LL:URL: Nat Volunteers Awards - Asylum Seekers Resource Centre

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Dear Volunteers and friends of the ASRC,

The ASRC has been shortlisted in the "Children & Families" category of
the "Peoples Choice Award" of the National Volunteers Awards.

This part of the awards is won pure and simply by the number of votes
received on line until the 10th October.  You are only allow one vote. 
Please spend a moment to vote for us.

How to vote:
Search:"National Volunteers Awards"
Choose:Community
Category:  Children & Families
Vote:ASRC
http://www.national.com.au/Community/0,,33774,00.html#asylum


Please forward to your network.

Many thanks
Maree Shelmerdine


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LL:DDV: COMEDY DEBATE - Sunday 28 September 1pm - Trades Hall

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COMEDY DEBATE THIS SUNDAY

In 1836, the young Karl Marx received the following sensible advice in a
letter from his mother.

You must not smoke any tobacco, not stay up too long in the evening, and
rise early. Be careful also not to catch cold and, dear Karl do not
dance until you are quite well again.

This Sunday, we'll be throwing her advice to the winds with a Monster
Debate on that left-wing chestnut: "If I can't dance, it's not my
revolution."

In the affirmative, Jacob Grech -- the Mr Bojangles of Trades Hall --
leads a team of tangoing terrors against the NIBS Bookshop ballerinas.

Shake off Grand Final hangovers with a no-holds barred, full contact
comedy debate.

This Sunday 28 September 1pm

Food provided, drinks at bar prices but bookings essential $14 $8 --
ring 9662 3744 or   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New International Bookshop

Trades Hall

54 Victoria St

Carlton Sth 305320

New International Bookshop Co-operative
Trades Hall
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LL:DDV: New International Bookshop Wednesday nights

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Series 4/2003
October-December 2003

1 October
LHS event
Poverty: What It Means and What to Do About It
Monash historian Mark Peel talks about his new book, The Lowest Rung,
based on interviews with hundreds of people living and working in three
areas commonly described as 'disadvantaged': Broadmeadows, Inala and
Mount Druitt.

8 October
AFS event
Universities: The Great Malaise and Its Remedies
Barry Jones leads a panel discussion.

15 October
LHS event
Teaching Our History to Our Children
Anna Clark, co-author with Stuart Macintyre of The History Wars, looks
at the politics and pedagogy of teaching Australian history in schools.

22 October
AFS event
Parliamentary Reform and How to Achieve More of It
With former Legislative Assembly speaker Ken Coghill, current speaker
Judy Maddigan and federal deputy speaker Harry Jenkins.

29 October
NIBS event
ASIO, Anti-Terrorism and Democratic Rights
Jenny Hocking, author of Terror Laws and director of Monash University's
National Centre for Australian Studies, discusses the history, present
and future of security legislation, and its disturbing implications for
civil rights.

5 November
NIBS event
Australian Liberals, Past and Present
Judy Brett, author of several acclaimed studies of the Liberal
tradition, shows the differences and similarities between the party of
Menzies and the party of Howard.

12 November
NIBS event
George Orwell and Australia
What does Orwell's work have to tell us about politics in Australia?
Dennis Glover, author of Orwell's Australia: From Cold War to Culture
War, investigates.


19 November
AFS event
Labor's Agenda for Workplace Reform
Workplace Relations shadow minister Craig Emerson reveals the mess that
Tony Abbott has made of his portfolio and how to fix it.

26 November
Overland event
Social Visions for a Better Australia
Mary Zournazi, Radio National commentator and author of Hope: New
Philosophies for Change, delivers the final 2003 Overland lecture.

3 December
AFS event
The Hawke Years
Co-editor Susan Ryan in conversation with John Button about The Hawke
Government: A Critical Perspective.

10 December
AFS event
Futures for the Arts in Victoria
A perspective from Victorian College of the Arts director Andrea Hull,
with special reference to education and training.

17 December
AFS/DRS event
Private Health Insurance: The Millstone Around the Neck of Our Public
Health System
Doctors' Reform Society secretary Tim Woodruff offers some strategies to
avoid strangulation.

Info: 9662 3744


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LL:DDV: Vulgar Press book launches

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The Vulgar Press announces the following book launches:

*   Thursday 9 October: Janet Kelly's The Colour of Walls
-- a confronting novel about incest and its aftermath --
to be launched by Judith Rodriguez at Readings Carlton

*   Friday 10 October: Michael Hyde's Hey Joe
-- at last a novel about Vietnam from the protestors' point of view --
to be launched by Jenny Pausacker at Readings Carlton

*   Thursday 16 October: Neil Boyack's Transactions
-- short stories by one of Australia's best young practitioners --
to be launche by Greg McCainsh at Readings Port Melbourne

for more information visit www.vulgar.com.au

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LL:DDV: comedy debate + lunch @ New International Bookshop

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`Affray in the Cafe'
Comedy Debate

The NIBS Knucklepersons versus the Trade Union Tusslers, in a no-holds
barred, full contact Comedy Debate.
Thought Tony Blair could spin? Wait until you see these debating
desperadoes in action!
Graze on the always-tantalising NIBS food, while the Dukes of
Disputation clash live on stage.
All with music and drinks at bar prices. Bookings essential! (9662 =
3744).Sunday 28 September 1pm
$14/$8
New International Bookshop
Trades Hall
54 Victoria St
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LL:REM: Ian Chappell@ refugee public forum - Wed 17/9

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A Just Australia

Invites you to join Cr. David Brand - Deputy Mayor, at a public meeting
with

Ian Chappell

Phillip Adams

Hanifa Deen

Howard Glenn

Plus special guests and entertainment

Come along to hear why Ian Chappell and our other speakers have joined
A Just Australia in its campaign for just refugee programs in Australia.

You will also have the opportunity to hear first hand stories from =
refugees and asylum seekers in the local community and their hopes for =
their lives in Australia.


When: Wednesday 17th September at 7.30pm
Where: St. Kilda Town Hall, Cnr Carlisle and Brighton Rd


The evening is free but we will be asking for donations and explaining =
how you can support our work on a long-term basis.


Carmel Shute
Council Media Officer
City of Port Phillip
Ph: 03 9209 6163
Fax: 03 9525 4640
Mob: 0412 569 356
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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LL:INFO: Call for papers: Community Development/Human Rights

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Community Development, Human Rights and the Grassroots

Trades Hall

Victoria Street (Cnr Lygon Street) Melbourne, Australia

14 - 18 April 2004

(a conference for academics, researchers and the grassroots practitioners)

There is a renewal of interest in community development, both in
Australia and internationally. This conference will explore the
questions: What does community development look like today? What are the
key issues? What is its potential? How is it operating at the grassroots
and in global contexts? What are the links between community development
and human rights?

There will be two sections to the Conference:

Reflection14-16 April, 2004 (14th - evening Opening Session - Hotel
IBIS)

This section will focus on reflection and analysis of the role, methods
and contexts of community development today. In particular, it will
consider the influence of the human rights revolution on local and
global community projects. Submissions for papers which address the
following themes are invited, but other themes are also welcome.

*  human rights and community development
*  social capital
*  community development and globalisation
*  new and old forms of activism
*  multiculturalism and cultural citizenship
*  the effects of neo-liberalism & managerialism
*  gender, race and class
*  third sector research
*  indigenous projects
*  strengths & weakness of capacity and community building
*  women in community development
*  diversity and solidarity in community development
*  civil society debates and discourses

Abstracts should be 200 - 300 words and written in plain English and an
electronic copy (in MS word format) sent to:

Email  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone (03) 5227 2113
 (all papers will be blind peer - refereed)

Website  www.deakin.edu.au/cchr
  Deadline for Abstracts 14 November 2003

Grassroots

17 - 18 April, 2004



Themes of these two days of the conference will be:

*  the political context of community development
*  challenging the status quo
*  co-option and colonisation
*  working in atypical areas
*  new sites of community development
*  community development and the future

Workshop facilitation (10 -15 minutes) will focus upon issues relating
to these themes. This will involve sharing and celebrating ideas and
experiences, with creative discussion and decisions for future
directions.

The process of these two days will be participatory, interactional and
provocative (workshops - not presentations) focussed upon core community
development values in practice (rather than specific projects or
programs).

Those interested in further information, becoming involved in planning
the conference and / or facilitating workshops please contact Caty Kyne
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LL:DDV: Ian Chappell @ refugee public forum

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GOING INTO BAT FOR REFUGEES
Public forum: 7.30-9pm, Wednesday September 17, St Kilda Town Hall
Cricketer Ian Chappell will go into bat for refugees at a public meeting
organised by A Just Australia at St Kilda Town Hall, 7.30-9pm, Wednesday
September 17. Joining him are broadcaster and columnist Phillip Adams,
author Hanifa Deen and national director of A Just Australia, Howard
Glenn and Port Phillip deputy mayor, David Brand. The evening will also
include musical performances.

Ian Chappell will spend the afternoon handing out flyers and talking to
people in Acland Street. "I'm not a politician," said the former
Australian captain whose activism on refugees was triggered by his anger
over the Tampa crisis in August 2001. But when Mr Chappell saw young
people detained behind barbed wire, "I thought to myself there has to be
a helluva cost to the country, not only keeping them in detention but
then the ongoing cost to their health. If the worst happened, that a
child of mine was forced out of this country and went somewhere else ...
would I want her treated in this fashion?"

Mr Chappell's 'conversion' to the refugee cause was the subject of an
episode of Australian Story, called "The Unusual Suspect" broadcast on
ABC TV on July 14.

Cr Brand said that the City of Port Phillip has waived hall hire fees
for the forum.

"The City of Port Phillip is delighted to be supporting this forum about
the refugee crisis. Some of the first Tampa refugees arrived from the
Pacific today but that doesn't mean our refugee policy still isn't a
national - and international - disgrace. Many people in this community
started life as 'reffos' in the aftermath of World War 11. Many were
Jews who survived the Holocaust, Hitler's 'final solution'. They arrived
at Station Pier and stayed.

"Everyone now thinks the turning back of boatloads of Jewish refugees
from England and the USA in the late thirties was a travesty but our
wealthy nation has done the same to successive boatloads of mostly
Muslim refugees and adopted the so-called 'Pacific solution'. Ian
Chappell was urged to do something when his wife reminded him that bad
things happen when good people do nothing. This forum allows the whole
community to say to the Australian Government that we categorically
reject the current refugee policy, that it does not act in our name.
History will prove us right, though that is cold comfort to the
thousands of refugees who remain incarcerated either in outback
detention camps or in the Pacific," he said.

Last May, the City of Port Phillip hosted the Tampa Tribute to honour
Captain Rinnan on his last voyage.

Hanifa Deen is an award winning Australian author who writes narrative
non-fiction. She is also a human rights activist and social commentator.
She has held a number of high profile positions including: Deputy
Commissioner of the Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission of WA;
Director on the Board of Directors of SBS; and Hearing Commissioner with
the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.20

She now works as a full-time writer and is an Adjunct Senior Research
Fellow with the Department of Social Sciences at Curtin. Her first book,
Caravanserai: A Journey Among Australian Muslims, (Allen & Unwin) won a
NSW Premier's Literary Award in 1996 and judges described Caravanserai
'...as an outstanding contribution to Australian literature.'20

A completely revised and was released in May this year, published by
Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Broken Bangles, her best-selling book on
the lives of women in Pakistan and Bangladesh, published by Transworld,
was short-listed in 1998 for the WA Premier's Literary Award. A second
edition was released in India by Penguin-India publishers in 2000. Her
most recent book is: A Cold Red Carpet: The Strange Journey of Taslima
Nasreen.

All speakers are available for interview. For more information about A
Just Australia, go to:


Enquiries:  After hours
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Tel: 03 9209 6163   Fax: 03 9525 4640   Tel: 03 9531 7358
Mobile: 0412 569 356Mobile: 0412 135 350
Council webpage: www.portphillip.vic.gov.au


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LL:ART: Take Heart - Keating's speech @ launch of History Wars

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AN EXTEMPORANEOUS ADDRESS
BY
P.J. KEATING
LAUNCHING THE HISTORY WARS
MELBOURNE, 3 SEPTEMBER 2003


The writing of The History Wars is very important. The book will sit on
the shelves of libraries as a sort of code stone to help people
understand the motivations of players in today's contemporary debate. It
sheds light on the political battle which is carried on in the pubs and
on the footpaths about who we are and what has become of us. For the
protagonists and antagonists in academe are now surrogates in a broader
political battle about Australia's future.

We should reflect on this: alone, amongst the peoples of the world, we
have possession of a continent, a continent we laid claim to as part of
an empire, one we expropriated from another race, but a continent that
is no longer an island in a sea of subjugated and colonial places. The
Dutch no longer run Indonesia, the French no longer control Indo-China.
And the Chinese now run China for themselves.

We occupy a continent surrounded by ancient societies; nations which
have reclaimed their identity and their independence.

The Australian story, for it to be a record of continuing success has to
come to terms with our expropriation of the land, our ambivalence about
who we are and our place in the new geo-political make-up of the region.
That is, being part of it, rather than simply being tolerated in it.

History is always our most useful tool and guide. Knowing our past helps
us to divine our future.

To see the long strands which denote our character and which have been
common in each epoch of our development. And how they may be adapted in
our transformation as an integral part of this region, while
re-energising our national life.

How do we pick the good strands and the step changes on the pathway to
our security?

Because there are only 20 million of us, the primary matter for national
policy is how we maintain possession of the continent.

How do we find the pathway to a genuine security, a naturally reinforced
one. Security in Asia and not from Asia. Where we are other than a
client state perennially searching for a strategic guarantor.

Once, all our faith was in the British Navy. Now it has swung to the
American defence establishment.

Those who militantly defend the conservative orthodoxy in Australia see
all change as an affront to the past, especially their view of the past.
Whereas, knowing the past and seeing it for what it is with all its
blemishes, allows us to divine our destiny for our appointment with
reality.

And our appointment with reality has to come around. We are no longer
part of some empire. We are no longer some passenger on the British
Lion. We are no longer protected by their navy to the extent that we
ever were.

While people may say we enjoy some protection from the Americans, we
have to be clear what reality, in this respect, means.

I have never understood why the Howards and the Blaineys et al are so
defensive. So resistant to novelty and to progress. They are more than
conservatives. They're reactionaries.

Conservatives gradually, if somewhat reluctantly, accept change.
Reactionaries not only resist change, they seek to reverse it.
Understanding and acknowledging the past and moving on to bigger and
better things is anathema to them.

They absolutely insist on their view and the lessons they see in our
history. Yet in their insistence, their 'proprietorialness' their
'derivativeness' and their rancour, they reduce the flame and energy
within the nation to a smouldering incandescence. What they effectively
do is crimp and cripple our destiny. It's like suffering from some sort
of anaemia; robbing the political blood of its energy.

The problem for the Howards and the Blaineys is that their story is
simply not big enough for Australia.

No great transformation can come from their tiny view of us and their
limited faith in us.

Their failure is not simply one of crabbiness or rancour; it's a failure
of imagination, a failure to read our historical coordinates correctly
but usefully to move to a bigger construct, a bigger picture as to who
we are and what we can be. That's the real job of political leadership.

Their timidity not only diminishes their own horizon, it is a drag on
the rest of us. The country always has to make its progress despite
them. They never help. They have always to be dragged along and they
will only accept a new norm when someone else has struggled to put it
into place.

But the fact is, their view will not prevail. They cannot win because
they have no policy framework to win with. And deep in their tiny,
timorous hearts they know it.

The undertaking is simply too big for them.

This is why you get all this thrashing about in the press and why we are
drenched in the babble of the lickspittles and tintookies around them.
And it's just that, babble. It's babble because at the heart of their
wrong-headed campaign is an attempt to contain and censor the human
spirit, to muffle, muzzle and vitiate 

LL:PR: EPA, Sustainability and the Western Suburbs

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PRESS RELEASE

The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) - Where is it taking us?

The EPA is often seen by the community as a "toothless tiger" because
there appear to be too few prosecutions and too many weak or
inconsistent decisions.

But the EPA often sees itself as being "between a rock and a hard place"
- no matter what they do they will be criticised: the community expects
harsher enforcement while industry and developers often expect greater
tolerance.

Over the past few years there have been some subtle shifts in EPA's
role. As global concern has focussed on the need for ecological
sustainability, so EPA has expanded from its primary role as the
environmental regulator to include the role of 'sustainability
facilitator'.

Mr Terry A'Hearn is EPA Director for Sustainable Development and will
present the EPA's position on these issues at a public meeting this
Thursday. His presentation, entitled "Sustainability: the EPA's Changing
Role", will form part of the Environment Centre's annual general
meeting.

The meeting will commence at 7.30 pm, Thursday, 11 September at the
Melbourne Water Discovery Centre, New Farm Road, Werribee (Mel 205, E12)
and is open to all people interested in the impact that sustainability
will have for the Western Suburbs.

There will also be an update on environmental issues in the Western
Suburbs, including the Werribee Plains Vision, Maribyrnong and Werribee
River Developments, Ecological Footprints, Green Wedges and more.

Tea and Coffee will be provided.


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LL:DDV: Community Building & Social Capacity forums

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Good morning,

The director of the Centre for Public Policy, Professor Mark Considine,
would like to invite you to the three evening forums in our  Community
Building and Social Capacity series running this month.

On Tuesday September 9th, the community building and social capital
themes will be explored by the Honourable Candy Broad MLC, Minister for
Local Government. Mike Hill, formerly the Chief Executive of the
Victorian Local Governance Association, will be making a follow-up
address in this session.

On Tuesday September 16th, community building and social capital will be
approached from an academic and research perspective with Wendy Stone,
Assistant Research Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research
Institute. Dr Jenny Lewis from the University of Melbourne will be
acting as a respondent in this session.

On Tuesday September 23rd, the Honourable Gavin Jennings, Minister for
Aged Care and Aboriginal Affairs will be addressing the series theme,
with David Spokes, Chief Executive Officer, City of Port Phillip making
a follow-up address.

More information, including biographies for each of the speakers can be
found at:
http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/events/Capacity_Building.html

Each forum will be held at 5:30pm in the Public Policy Lecture Theatre,
2nd Floor, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton. There is no cost involved
and no need to RSVP. Metered street parking is available.

I will also take this opportunity to remind you to register quickly for
the Partnerships, Community and Local Governance: International
Perspectives and Australian Experiences  half-day symposium on Friday
the 19/09 with international local governance expert Professor Mike
Geddes. Spots are filling up very quickly. The price for this event is
$60 which includes afternoon tea and post-symposium drinks. Please visit
http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/events/partnerships.html to
download a registration form. You can follow the payment instructions
detailed on the website or you can fax the completed form to me on 9349
4442 and pay by credit card over the phone on 8344 9482 if you wish.

Also, please note that the 'Positions Vacant in Public Policy' page on
our website has been recently updated. Similarly, you are also invited
to visit our 'Centre Events' page for more information about our
upcoming events. (Clicking on 'Non-CPP' events will provide information
on affiliated events including the upcoming W. Macmahon Ball - Symposium
and Celebratory Dinner).

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you wish to discuss anything
further. I would be particularly happy to hear from you if you wish to
advertise a policy-related employment vacancy on our website, or offer a 
0-hour unremunerated internship to one of our Public Policy and
Management students.

Warmest regards,


Lauren Rosewarne
Centre Manager

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LL:INFO: Saving Point Nepean - E Letter No 3

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Saving Point Nepean
E-letter No 3
Dear members and supporters
Victorian Community Expression of Interest in Point Nepean
On 25 August 2003 the Commonwealth Government terminated the Expression
of Interest process to sell 90 hectares of the heritage precinct at
Point Nepean (including the Quarantine Station).  Concurrently,
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence, Mrs Fran Bailey,
announced that the 90 hectares of the heritage precinct at Point Nepean
(including the Quarantine Station) would be offered for 40-50 year lease
by tender, starting 1 September.

Why a lease and not a sale?
Under a lease Point Nepean would remain within the jurisdiction of the
Commonwealth Government.  It would also mean that developers chosen by
the Commonwealth Government would not be subject to Victorian state and
local planning controls.  This includes the Victorian Coastal Strategy,
which discourages ribbon or strip coastal development (The Commonwealth
has advised the lease would include Point Nepean's beach and foreshore).

In effect, Victorians, the local government, State Government and
Victorian heritage agencies are denied input into what a developer can
or can't do with Point Nepean.  A lengthy lease, to which no local
planing guidelines apply, would at least in the assessment of one
developer be preferable to freehold.

In a 26 August 2003 article in the Financial Review, a well-known hotel
and tourism developer, Mr Max Moar was quoting as saying: 'It's a good
thing it is not under state planning control any more.  As a developer
you want to deal with the land owner and now it will mean you don't have
to go through that extra authority'.

The tender will stipulate that Point Nepean is available for four
different uses 'Educational, Recreational, Community and Tourism'.  Uses
listed in Mrs Bailey's 25 June Media Release include universities,
schools, research, sporting facilities, jetties, rescue activities,
museums, restaurants, conference facilities and unspecified
accommodation.

In an interview on ABC 774 on 25 August, when asked if a hotel was
possible, Mrs Bailey observed that a hotel 'would not be multi-storey'!
Mrs Bailey also declined to guarantee that bushland on the 90 hectares
would remain contiguous with the existing National Park.  In the 26
August 2003 Financial Review Mrs Bailey is reported to have said that
'developers could demolish and undertake new construction on the
property'.

What developments will be possible at Point Nepean?
A university, luxury accommodation, jetties, one or more restaurants,
shops, one or more hotels/motels, a conference centre and/or a sporting
facilities will all be possible, together or stand alone.  As Point
Nepean falls outside the jurisdiction of local planning laws it will be
the "incumbent" Commonwealth Government that will be the final arbiter
of what is 'appropriate' development and what is not.



Would the public have unfettered access to Point Nepean?
It would be naEFve to suggest that sustainability can be achieved for
Point Nepean without some form of income generating activity.  However,
the Commonwealth Government's stated expectations of commercial returns
clearly establish a framework that denies the greatest numbers of the
public access to Point Nepean.  Universities, hotels/motels, restaurants
and the numerous other specified uses means that Point Nepean are not
'public space' and access will accordingly be limited.

What about management?
Point Nepean has so much to offer, integrating as it does outstanding
natural and cultural values.  Its development can be directly aligned
with and contributes to Victoria's early history.  The Commonwealth
Government has decreed that Point Nepean be carved up between three or
more managers.
Parks Victoria would manage the existing Mornington Peninsula National
Park, Mornington Shire Council, Police Point (17.6 Ha), while the 90
hectares proposed to be now leased, including threatened woodland and
the Quarantine Station, would be managed by the successful tenderer.
Fragmentation of its management will unarguably reflect in fragmentation
and disintegration of Point Nepean's values.

Is subleasing permissible?
On the balance of probability the answer must be 'highly likely'.

What do environment groups think?
The Victorian National Parks Association, National Trust and the
Australian Conservation Foundation in a joint press release on 25 August
(attached) expressed serious concerns about the Commonwealth Government
announcement and described Point Nepean as 'endangered'.

Where to from here?
It is a shame that those making the decisions do not share our vision of
how wonderful Point Nepean might be, as an integrated publicly owned
national park. This Vision was contemplated by the Community Master Plan
and is reflected in the National Trust/VNPA vision for Point Nepean
supported by the majority of Victorians, the Victorian Government, the
Australian Senate and hundreds of community groups (nearly 350
organis

LL:INFO: Centre for Public Policy News

[Shute, Carmel]

Firstly, for those who missed Rob Joy's fascinating address 'The
Victorian EPA: Past, Present and Future' last week, please note that his
presentation can be downloaded from:

http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/events/Environmental_Policy.html

Secondly, a quick reminder about the Partnerships, Community and Local
Governance: International Perspectives and Australian Experiences
half-day symposium to be held on Friday the 19th of September in the
Centre for Public Policy. Places for this symposium are filling up fast
so if you are interested in participating you will need to register
quickly. Speakers and topics include:

Limits to local governance: Lessons from the UK
with Professor Mike Geddes
University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Partnerships and Local Governance: Some Lessons from European
Innovations
with Professor Mark Considine
Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne

Enhancing Diversity: Managing Partnerships with the State
with Professor Paul Smyth and Dr Tim Reddel
University of Queensland

Partnerships with Government: the Brotherhood of St Laurence Experience
with Sandra Hills
Brotherhood of St Laurence

Empowering Communities for Partnership
with Vicki Evans
Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development

Dr David Adams from the Department for Victorian Communities will be
acting as a discussant during this symposium.

For more information or to download a registration form, please visit
http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/events/partnerships.html. This
symposium costs $60 and is inclusive of afternoon tea and post-symposium
drinks. Credit card payments can be arranged, please email me if you
have any queries.

For more information about Centre Events, please visit our website <
www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au
 >.

Please don't hesitate to forward this email to friends and colleagues,
and please contact me if you have any queries.


Warmest regards,


Lauren Rosewarne
Centre Manager

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LL:INFO: Saving Point Nepean E-letter No 1

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Dear Folks,

An announcement on who has "won" the battle for Point Nepean is expected
any day now. Every letter, phone call and e-mail (in that order) is
critical and will help.

While the following e-mail is lengthy, one of the principles involved
was nicely ennumerated by the Herald Sun's editorial this week. It
read.

Beach betrayal

Not only Victorians but all Australians, should rally to express their
anger at the prospect that Point Nepean's beach could be sold to private
buyers.

The federal Government confirms that the beach and foreshore are
included in the 90ha of land it has on the market.

This outrageous prospect is totally contrary to the Australian tradition
that the beaches belong to the people.

Beaches are alienated in only a very few coastal areas where very old
titles, which should have been rescinded long ago, continue to exist.

The local community fears Point Nepean beach could become, like many
European beaches, cut off from the public by fences and the access
commercialised.

As developers join the seagulls seeking to scavenge this public land,
the federal and state governments play politics.

But this is not the politicians' land. It belongs to the people who pay
them.

In brief, our land and our beach is still up 'For Sale'.

Please help us if you can and visit the VNPA website for the entire
background. (If you are really bored, you can read my article on why
Nepean must be a National Park).

Please circulate to your friends and colleagues as you see fit.

Best Wishes,

Neil.

PS. Please let me know if you would prefer not to receive further
information regarding Point Nepean..




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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:59 AM
Subject: Saving Point Nepean E-letter No 1

Saving Point Nepean
E-letter No 1


Dear members and supporters,

The community-based campaign by the Victorian National Parks Association
and National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to stop the sale of Point
Nepean has reached a very critical stage, with an expectation of a
Commonwealth Government announcement soon.

What that announcement will be is unclear, but with continued pressure
we believe that the Commonwealth Government will stop the sale and
return Point Nepean to Victoria.

Over the coming weeks we plan to send you regular Saving Point Nepean
E-letters, this being the first. The E-letters will give you the latest
news and help you become involved in the Victorian community's campaign
to Save Point Nepean.

You are on our email database because you are a member or supporter of
the Victorian National Parks Association and the National Trust of
Australia (Victoria), or have supported our campaigns for the protection
of natural and cultural heritage in the past.

We hope that you continue to support our work, and in particular our
campaign for Point Nepean, and find the Saving Point Nepean E-letter a
great way to stay informed and to get involved.

Point Nepean is too valuable to be lost. With your help we will save it.


Yours sincerely,

Dianne Weidner
Chairman, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)

Ian Harris
President, Victorian National Parks Association

PS: So please keep sending those emails, letters and faxes, and making
those phone calls, to our federal Members of Parliament.

PPS: Should you not wish to receive the Saving Point Nepean E-letter,
please reply to this email with the word 'Unsubscribe' in the subject
box.



The Victorian Community Expression of Interest
in Point Nepean


The Victorian National Parks Association and the National Trust of
Australia (Victoria) have joined forces to work with the Victorian
community to Save Point Nepean.

Point Nepean is a national treasure, a unique blend of cultural and
natural heritage on the doorstep of Melbourne.  But it is now in grave
danger because the Commonwealth Government is selling 91.8 hectares of
Defence Department land at Portsea containing the Quarantine
Station/Norris Barracks area with its 19th century and early 20th
century buildings of exceptional heritage significance, as well as
around 50 hectares of threatened coastal moonah woodlands.

As part of our community-based campaign we are facilitating the
Victorian Community Expression of Interest in Point Nepean, which was
submitted on 2 June 2003 to the Commonwealth Government (you can see it
at vnpa.org.au and nattrust.com.au). It is a formal request for the
return of the Defence land to Victoria, after which it would then be
included within a reborn Point Nepean National Park and managed by Parks
Victoria in partnership with the community and the Point Nepean
LivingMuseum.

The Point Nepean LivingMuseum would protect, manage and restore the
built heritage precinct and in the process provide many environmental,
economic and social benefits including those associated with research,
education, conservation, management, tourism, employment and training.

The Victorian Community Expression o

LL:AA: Support for Asylum Seekers

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FOOD SHORTAGE AT ASYLUM SEEKER RESOURCE CENTRE

The ASRC is experiencing a food shortage because the two largest 
providers of food, Foodbank Victoria and Victorian Relief Committee, are
unable to meet current demands.

The Foodbank at the Footscray ASRC is the largest in Australia for
asylum seekers and provides food to over 1300 asylum seekers a month
(over 12,000 food parcels in the past year).  There is an ever
increasing demand on the Foodbank due to the East Timorese losing their
entitlements and the closing of the Western Migrant Resource Centre.

The ASRC is looking for food donors who can contribute on a regular
basis.   The ASRC is also looking for volunteers to do food aid
fundraising.

How to Donate Food

Donations can be taken to the ASRC at 207-211 Nicholson Street Footscray
anytime Mondays to Fridays from 10am to 5pm and on Wednesday evenings
between 6.30pm and 9.30pm.

Examples of items needed at ASRC:


Fresh Fruit Fresh Vegetables
Canned FruitCheese
Canned Veggies  Long Life Milk
Breakfast Cereals   Tea
Pasta   Coffee
Spaghetti   Margarine
Pasta SaucesSpices
Canned Tuna Dried Peas
Canned Salmon   Soup Mix
Plain Biscuits (Crackers)   Vegetable Oil
Savoury BiscuitsLentils
Sweet Biscuits  Flour
Chickpeas   Salt
Sugar   Rice
Sauces (soy,tomato) Broad Beans
SemolinaPeanut Butter

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Toiletries

Toothpaste  Shampoo
Conditioner Razors
Toilet PaperSanitary Pads
SoapNappies


How to become a food aid fundraiser

Contact the Co-ordinator at the ASRC, Kon Karapanagiotidis, email: =
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LL:DDN: Draft Program of Now We The People Conference

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Dear Friend,

Please find below the draft timetable for sessions at the Now We The
People Conference on August 23-24, 2003, at 702 Harris St, Ultimo -
University of Technology Sydney.

In solidarity,

Peter Murphy and Ben Langford

(Draft timetable, July 18, 2003)

Now We The People

Challenging the US Empire - Australia for peace and justice

Conference, August 23-24, 2003

University of Technology, Sydney


SATURDAY AUGUST 23


9.30 am - Registration


10.15 am - Welcome to Country.

1020 am - Introduction


10.30 Opening Plenary
Where are Howard and Bush taking Australia? The social, economic and
environmental consequences of the US Alliance.
Doug Cameron, Patricia Ranald, Andrew Wilkie, Tanya Plibersek MHR,
Senator Kerry Nettle, Margaret Reynolds (possible)


12.30 - 1.30 pm Lunch


1.30 - 4.30 pm

Workshop 1
Unilateralism and sycophancy: Australian support for US global strategy
(includes US bases in Australia, US neo-cons and their Australian
supporters)

Panel: Andrew Wilkie, Denis Doherty, Dr Carol Araullo (BAYAN
Philippines), Damian Cahill, Margaret Reynolds (possible).


Workshop 2
How the people are left out - the challenge to renew Australian
democracy and the Constitution

Panel: Rod Donald MP (NZ Greens co-leader), Mayor Liz Johnstone (City of
Port Phillip, Senator Andrew Bartlett, Lynne Carson.


Workshop 3
A fairer finance sector for Australia

Panel: Geoff Derrick, Catherine Wolfhuizen (ACA), Prof Frank Stilwell.


Workshop 4
Medicare and Welfare reform - the US model for Australian society?

Panel: Gary Moore (NCOSS), Ian McCauley (Uni of Canberra), Dr Alf
Liebhold.


Workshop 5
Multiculturalism after 30 years - why Australia failed the refugee test

Panel: Tanya Plibersek MP (confirmed), Ahmed Shboul, Jock Collins, Mary
Kalantzis. Follow up - Peter


4.30 - 5.30 pm

Social function


SUNDAY AUGUST 24


10 am Plenary
The global economy goes into crisis - what options for Australia.

Dr Graham Larcombe, Dr John Quiggin


12 noon - 2 pm (includes 30 minute lunch break)


WORKSHOPS


Workshop 6
Australia - USA Free Trade Agreement, General Agreement on Trade and =
Services. What's at stake?

Panel: Patricia Ranald (AFTINET), Sen Kerry Nettle, Alistair Kentish =
(AMWU)


Workshop 7
Understanding the religious fundamentalism dynamic - at home and abroad

Panel: Randa Abdel-Fatteh (confirmed), Rev Ray Richmond. Follow up - =
John, Peter


Workshop 8
Universities for the rich - the privatisation of Australia's Higher =
Education sector

Panel: Danial Kyriacou (NUS), Trish Mullins (NTEU), John Kaye.


Workshop 9
What rights for Indigenous Australians when might is again right?

Panel ideas: Pam Johnston, Lydia Miller, Pat Anderson, Olga Havilland
(none confirmed). Follow up - Peter


Workshop 10
Ensuring Iraq is the last oil war - energy politics for a sustainable
future

Panel ideas - Anthony Ashbolt , Sahail Inuyatollah, Stewart White.


2 pm - Closing Plenary

Adoption of Conference Statement

2.30 - 4 pm
A just Australia or just a straggler - building the alliance for peace
and justice

Panel: Rod Donald, Sen Andrew Bartlett, Sylvia Hale MLC, Rev Dr Ann
Wansbrough, Anthony Albanese MHR, Pat Anderson (to be confirmed), union
speaker - still checking here


Close - songs by Sydney Trade Union Choir

In association with the Research Initiative in International Activism,
University of Technology, Sydney

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LL:DDV: launch of McQUAIL: A likely story by Steve Brook

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RAWPRAWN PUBLISHING

invites you to the official launch of

McQUAIL: A likely story

by Steve Brook

At 7 p.m. on Friday, 19 September 2003

in the Old Ballroom, Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Lygon Sts., Carlton
South

Officiating: Cr. Dick Gross, former Mayor of Port Phillip, author,
financial adviser. Latest book: "A Godless Gospel" (September 1999).

Fine finger food and a great opportunity to call everyone darling and
kiss the air next to their ear. And get YOUR copy of "McQuail" at a
ridiculously low price!

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Self-publishing has many advantages, but "McQuail" is clearly not one of
them. -- The Corangamite Thunderer

The main character is my age (almost exactly), my religion (well,
almost) and far more promiscuous than I could ever hope to be.
-- Dick Gross

Adolescent, unformed, semi-literate, pretentious. And those are the good
things about Steve Brook's book. A shock therefore to learn that the
author is approaching his threescore and ten.
-- The Bugle, Maroochydore

A pity the book's content cannot match its snappy design.
-- The Australian Pergola

Can "McQuail - the Movie" be far away?
-- Vision & Sound

Religion, the US, marriage - "McQuail" is a puerile attack on easy
targets. It's all been done, and done better, before. Brook should learn
draughts or crochet and rejoin his generation.
-- Yippee! Wahoo! Weekly

I thoroughly enjoyed McQuail. It's clear that you're emerging as the
antipodean Kurt Vonnegut.
-- Phillip Adams

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LL:DDV: The importance of being Frank and Hardy

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The Vulgar Press  invites you to the launch of

Frank Hardy and the
Literature of Commitment
edited by Paul Adams and Christopher Lee

to be launched by
Tony Birch

2 pm Sunday 24 August
Trades Hall Melbourne

guest speakers include
Ralph de Boissiere
Mavis Robertson
Alan Hardy

All welcome
for more information visit   www.vulgar.com.au


Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment  edited by Paul Adams and
Christopher Lee  isbn 0 9580794 1 2 296pp  rrp $39.95for more
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LL:INFO: Radio Eye reports Rev Watson's Iraq War, July 26

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Subject: Radio Eye reports Rev Watson's Iraq War, July 26

Dear Friends,

I am a radio documentary producer with ABC Radio National and I have
just finished putting together a documentary about Uniting Church
Minister Neville Watson's time in Iraq during the war - compiled from
his journal and interviews with him.

The documentary titled "A Candle in the Darkness" will be broadcast on
ABC Radio National's Radio Eye program on Saturday July 26th at 2.05
p.m.  I have included the publicity for your information.

A Candle in the Darkness.

What drives some people to give up the comforts and certainties of life
in support of the values they hold dear? Many of us feel strongly about
all sorts of issues, but put limits on our activism - a signature on a
petition, or participation in a street march for instance. But this is
not enough for Neville Watson.

In January this year, this 73-year-old Uniting Church Minister said
good-bye to his family and congregation in Perth and joined a group of
peace activists in Baghdad.  Their task was to try and stop the war, and
to bear witness to the suffering of the Iraqi people. It was a similar
journey to the one he'd made in 1991 during the Gulf War.

Using interview and journal entries, Neville tells of the three weeks of
intense bombing of the city, the events he witnessed on the streets and
in the hospitals, as well as his reflections on the war itself.

"It was Zaha whom I remember and who affected me the most.  The woman
Doctor told us that a piece of shrapnel in the back had made Zaha a
bilateral paraplegic.  I looked at the frail little body, the glazed
eyes and the anxious mother alongside, and remembered how I reacted to
the "shock jocks" who had spoken of "collateral damage".  I wonder
whether they would be prepared to offer their six year old on the altar
of war?"

Producer :  Sharon Davis

Sound Engineer:  Roi Huberman

Perhaps you can send this on to some of your members and colleagues, or
suggest others who might find the program interesting. I look forward to
hearing from you.

Kind Regards,

Sharon Davis

SEARCH Foundation, Rm 610, 3 Smail St, BROADWAY NSW 2007. Ph: +61 2 9211
4164; Fax: +61 2 9211 1407. Web: www.search.org.au
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LL:DDV: Monash Lefty Reunion - from 7.30pm Fri 4/7

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Come to the Monash Reunion where you can catch up with all those friends
that you went to demos with, or from the Labour Club, or sit-in's, or
just from the caf.The  "Vietnam" era !

Friday 4th July 7.30 onwards

Where:  Dover Castle Hotel
470 Bridge Rd.,
Richmond   Tel: 9429 4348

BOOKINGS $20 per head

Andra Jackson 96821145
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LL:DDV: Book appeal for the Big Red Book Fair

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We want your books!

The Big Red Book Fair is the major fund-raiser for the New International
Bookshop, Australia's only specialist left-wing book co-operative. On 
the weekend of Saturday 28 June & Sunday 29 June, we take over the 
ground floor of the historic Trades Hall building for an enormous 
second-hand book sale.

To make the event possible, we need books...and plenty of them. 
Political, non-political, left-wing, right-wing -- it doesn't matter, so 
long as they can be read.

If you're moving house, if you don't want your ex-lover's novels on your
shelves, if you've flunked out of uni...whatever the reason, if you have
books you don't want, give us a call.

You'll be keeping the progressive movement alone while ensuring that 
your pre-loved books go to a good home.

To arrange pick-up, call us on 9662 3744 or  
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Big Red Book Fair

11 am to 4 pm

Saturday 28 June and Sunday 29 June


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LL:DDV: World Refugee Day Forum - 3pm - 5pm, Friday 20 June

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A WORLD REFUGEE DAY FORUM - 3pm - 5pm, Friday 20 June, Trades Hall
speakers include: Jess Whyte (RMIT Refugee and Asylum Seeker Project);
Spencer Zifcak (Assoc Professor, Latrobe University; David Manne 
(Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre Co-ordinator)& Pamela Curr 
(Austalian Greens Refugee Spokesperson)
3pm - 5pm
Friday 20 June
Trades Hall
Cnr. Victoria & Lygon Sts
Carlton South

Entry by gold coin donation. Refreshments provided ...all proceeds go
to the Thornbury and Footscray Asylum, Seeker Resource Centres

Presented by the federation of community legal centres refugee and
immigration working group and the rmit refugee and asylum seeker
project.

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LL:DDV: World Refugee Day Tea for Hope

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INVITATION TO WORLD REFUGEE DAY - TEA FOR HOPE SESSION

The Outreach team invites you to attend the World Refugee Day Tea for 
Hope session, an opportunity to interract with two refugee youth and 
listen to their amazing stories of courage and tenacity.  These young 
people have undergone severe hardship conditions, living in camps; 
separation from loved ones;  physical abuse, exploitation and exposure 
to life threatening infections like HIV/AIDS.  Yet they overcame and 
have big dreams for their future.   Let's share an afternoon tea 
together as we learn about refugee issues and celebrate the courage and 
strength of these youth.

Tea for Hope is organised by New Hope Foundation (NHF), a material aid
service initiative of Migrant ResourceCentre (South Central Region). 
NHF is not funded and relies on community contributions to supply 
settlement support materials to more than 240 new refugee families. 
Your gold coin and other donations will therefore be highly appreciated.

DATE:  19TH JUNE 2003

VENUE:  EOCV TRAINING ROOM 3rd floor, 380 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne


TIME:  3.00 - 4.00PM.

RSVP to Susan Waweru, Multicultural Outreach Program.


Susan Waweru
Multi Cultural Outreach Officer
Equal Opportunity Commission
Tel:  92817167
Fax:  92817171
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LL:DDV: Stop the war on refugees - rally - 1pm, Sun 22/6

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World Refugee Day
RALLY - Melbourne - SUNDAY 22 June 2003
Meet 1pm State Library
(Cnr Swanston & Latrobe sts)
marching to Federation Square by 2pm


INVITATION TO JOIN WELCOMING PARTY

Boatload of refugees expected on 22 June at Yarra Riverside

Let's see whether the Ruddock Border Protection Unit can stop this lot.

It's all part of World Refugee Day commemoration, organised in Melbourne 
by Victorian Alliance for Refugees (VAR).

VAR committee is asking all supporters of refugees to send a 
representative of your community or organisation to join a special 
"Welcoming Party" at about 2pm on old Batman Ave near Federation Square.

The Welcoming Party will be joined by thousands of refugee supporters
who have marched down from a rally at the State Library which starts at
1pm.

"This is how we should treat refugees" - rather than lock them up to
deport them, we will assist their settlement in the community.

First we'll invite them to speak to us. Refugees from Iraq, Iran,
East Timor and Afghanistan will address the rally.

Then writer Arnold Zable will speak on the "Act of Humanity" Statement,
asking that the Australian government follow our example and grant
permanent residency to all refugees on TPVs and in detention.

Concise details below.

If you can get involved in this action on World Refugee Day, please
contact the organising Committee of Victorian Alliance for Refugees:

Judy McVey  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  0418 347 374
Steve Mullins   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   0413 021 412
Vicki Doherty[EMAIL PROTECTED]  0419 503 077
Harvey Stern[EMAIL PROTECTED]9531 5941

World Refugee Day
RALLY - Melbourne - SUNDAY 22 June 2003
Meet 1pm State Library
(Cnr Swanston & Latrobe sts)
marching to Federation Square by 2pm

STOP THE WAR ON REFUGEES - RESIDENCY NOT REJECTION

We need to mobilise new forces for the next stage of the fight for
human rights and against racism in Australia. Ruddock is threatening 
forced deportation for Iranians, Afghans, Iraqis and East Timorese - 
some on temporary visas, some still in detention.

END MANDATORY DETENTION
END THE 'PACIFIC SOLUTION'
HONOUR THE CONVENTION
PERMANENT PROTECTION

The rally will be chaired by ACTU President Sharan Burrow.
There'll be theatre, singing, speakers and puppets.

Women for a Humane Refugee Policy will meet beforehand at 12.00pm in the
Carlton Gardens (Cnr Victoria & Rathdowne sts) and march to the State 
Library.

Please bring your banner and march as a contingent.

THIS ACTION HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY: Victorian Alliance for Refugees, 
Australian Council of Trade Unions, Rural Australians for Refugees,
Refugee Action Collective, Victorian Trades Hall Council, Labor 
Coalition of Friends of Asylum Seekers, Ethnic Communities' Council of 
Victoria, Labor for Refugees, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, A Just 
Australia, Women for a Humane Refugee Policy, Permanent Protection for 
All Network, International Federation of Iranian Refugees, The Victorian 
Deaths in Custody Watch Committee, The Greens, Socialist Alliance, 
Darebin Community Legal Centre, Australians Against Racism, Action in 
Solidarity with Asia and The Pacific, Bula Bula Health Project at the 
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Good Shepherd Social Justice, Actors for 
Refugees, Brigidine Community for Justice, Kurdish & Turkish Human 
Rights Group, Islamic Girl's/Women's Group, Friends of the Earth, 
Amnesty International, Melbourne Congregation of Sisters of Mercy, 
Fitzroy Learning Centre, Labor Council of NSW, Walk Against the War
Coalition, Free the Refugees Campaign,  CFMEU (Construction) NSW, 
Campaign for the Protection of Asylum Seekers, Islamic Society of 
Victoria. Victorian Trade Unions: AEU, AMWU, ANF, AWU, ETU, VIEU, MEAA, 
NTEU, TCFUA.

to add your name to the list of supporters please contact Victorian
Alliance for Refugees working party members:

Judy McVey  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  0418 347 374
Steve Mullins   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   0413 021 412
Vicki Doherty[EMAIL PROTECTED]  0419 503 077
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LL:DDV: St Kilda Historical Society - Saving Port Phillip

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St Kilda Historical Society Public Talk:  Saving Port Phillip from the
Developers.

Leading community activists discuss the history of successful campaigns 
to preserve heritage sites. Essential information for those planning 
strategies against inappropriate developments.3.00 pm.  Sunday June 15 
at St Kilda Library Community Room, 150 Carlisle St.

Myer Eidelson
President
SKHS

0407 3016 95

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LL:URL: URGENT POLL on ABC

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  Here is the latest ABC online poll, about the War and the protests:
  It has not been widely notified and Young Liberals have organised a
  campaign to discredit the peace marches via this poll so I urge you
  to vote immediately - it is well set up and only takes a second.

  http://www.abc.net.au/news/multipoll3/vote/default.htm

  Note the interesting discrepancy in results at midday Monday ..
  the marchers are " a vocal minority"   according to this poll - but
  the very same poll shows 60% opposed to the attack - in spite of
  their best efforts to spin it.

  Pass it on!



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LL:DDV: Swinburne Indigenous Performing Arts - Dreaming Dreams

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Local kooris are in this show.


Swinburne performing arts students interpret dreams in an upcoming
production

A multimedia production focussing on the interpretation of dreams 
through the eyes of Indigenous Australians will be staged by Swinburne 
TAFE's Indigenous performing arts students next month.

"Dreaming Dreams", a mix of visual and live theatre presented by five
talented students, will be held at the David Williamson Theatre at
Swinburne's Prahran campus in St John St, on the 5, 6 and 7 June.

The students, in the second year of their two year diploma course that 
aims to provide graduates with the skills required to join a small 
company or community theatre group or to set up their own group, are 
responsible for the entire production from creative form and content to 
production, stage management, sound, lighting, costume, script, 
marketing and front of house.

"Dreaming Dreams" Director, Nick Illia, said the students incorporated still
image, text, music, projected words and live performance into a rich collage
in the  four pieces that make up the performance.

He promised a powerful piece with performers drawing their inspiration
from the environment, war, relationships, greed and indigenous issues.

ENDS.

Performance Details:

What:   Dreaming Dreams

When:   5, 6 and 7 June at 7.30pm with an additional
matinee performance at 12.15pm on 6 June.
Performance duration: one hour.

Where:  David Williamson Theatre, St. John St, Prahran.

Cost:   $5 per ticket.

Bookings:   Phone Janaya Charles on 9214 6746 or email
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Released by Vicki Amiguet, Swinburne Media Unit, phone 0410 569 408.

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LL:AA: URGENT support for ABC needed

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URGENT- ABC needs the support of those who value ABC scrutiny on 
important public matters.

4Corners program re Woomera
Please read below and send this email on to others who appreciate the 
ABC's role in scrutinising government, investigating and bringing full 
information to the public, and who understand that government 
interference with the independence of the ABC is an affront to 
democracy. Then send an email and/or phone to give your feedback on the 
program:
Send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a copy to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 9626 1699 and ask to leave a message on the General Comments Line

There appears to be a concerted campaign being run to stop programs
providing information about asylum seekers. After the 4Corners program 
on Woomera, apparently the ABC has been inundated with negative comments
demanding that the ABC stop showing these biased programs. It would some
people are unhappy that the ABC had access to the footage it used.

As always, those who appreciate what the program exposed are not the 
ones who are contacting the ABC. So pls, get cracking in support of the 
ABC's efforts. And phone/write to the media to oppose the current 
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LL:DDV: Wednesday Night at the New International Bookshop

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE
  NEW INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP

Series 2/2003   March - May 2003

6.30 p.m. at New International Bookshop
Trades Hall, Victoria Street, Carlton.

Members $5   Others $6   Concession $2

Events are presented by a consortium comprising the Australian Fabian
Society (Vic); the New International Bookshop Co-operative; Arena
Publications; Overland Publications; the Australian Society for the 
Study of Labour History Inc. (Melbourne Branch); the Swinburne Institute 
for Social Research; and the Don Dunstan Foundation (Vic).


DateSponsorTopic & Speaker(s)

Wed. 2 AprilAFS Undemocratic Schooling. Melbourne University
Associate
Professor and 2002 Woodward Medal winner, Richard Teese
follows up his memorable 2001 AFS education conference
address with a compelling account of entrenched
educational disadvantage and social inequality.

Wed. 9 AprilAFS Iraq and After: Regional Implications for
Australia.
Monash University Senior Lecturer in Asian Politics,
Dr Joan Grant discusses regional reactions to the Iraq
crisis and their significance for Australia.

Wed. 16 April   NIB Australia's Welfare Wars. Philip Mendes,
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy & Community Development   
 at Monash 
University, draws on his new book to mount acase for the relevance 
of social democratic ideals in  the welfare sector.

Wed. 23 April   NIB Ned Kelly Rides Again. Ian Jones, the pre-
eminent expert on the Kelly Gang, talks about the rise 
 and rise of 
the last outlaw.

Wed. 30 April   ASSLH   Not Before Time: The Triumph of Victorian
Legislative Council Reform. Victorian Finance Minister 
 John 
Lenders and Monash University Politics ProfessorBrian 
Costar 
analyse Steve Bracks' radical upper house   reforms and 
their 
significance for Victoria.

Wed. 7 May  AFS Partnerships at Work: the Challenge of Employee
Democracy. Workplace relations panellists led by Labor
Essays editor Glen Patmore launch and discuss a new
addition to the annual AFS Labor Essays series.

Wed. 14 May AFS A Federation of Regions. Former Hawke government
Minister Chris Hurford proposes radical reforms to the
fraught fabric of Australian federalism.

Wed. 21 May AFS What Next for Labor, Social Democracy and the Left?
Labor Deputy Leader Jenny Macklin returns to the AFS
lectern with a further progress report on her ALP policy
review.

Wed. 28 May AFS Privatisations and What to Make of Them. Monash
 Law 
Professor Graham Hodge discusses the why and how of privatisation 
evaluation.

Wed. 4 June NIB Student Radicalism Then and Now. Graham
 Hastings, 
Research Officer for the National Union of  Students, 
leads a launch 
and panel discussion of his new history of Australian student 
radicalism.

Wed. 11 JuneOverland Broken Song. Journalist and author Barry
Hill, discusses his massive new biography of T. G. 
 Strehlow who 
collected the songs, genealogies and sacred artefacts of the Arrernte 
people.

Wed. 18 JuneAFS/DRS Saving the Pharmaceutical Benefits
Scheme, Fighting the Pharmaceutical Marketing Dollar. La   
 Trobe 
University Senior Lecturer Dr Ken Harvey talks  about threats 
to the PBS.

Wed. 25 JuneOverlandMargaret Simons delivers the second 2003
Overland Lecture on the Hindmarsh Island Affair and its
  
repercussions for indigenous Australians.


For further information on any of the above events call the New
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LL:DDV: Launch of What's Right? by Eric Aarons

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What's Right? By Eric Aarons
To be launched in Melbourne at 3pm, Saturday, April 5, 2003  by the
Reverend Tim Costello.
NEW INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP
Trades Hall, Corner of Lygon & Victoria Sts., Carlton

Noted labour historian, Dr Peter Love ,
will chair proceedings.

In his latest book, Eric Aarons examines the major political philosophies
- classical liberalism; its radically different offshoot, neo-liberalism;
socialism; and social democracy.  Aarons believes that none of these is
adequate to meet today's challenges, and aims to stimulate discussion
leading towards an alternative that would foster the kind of society
required to meet human needs in the twenty first century.

This task becomes all the more urgent as the United States and a few
subservient allies prepare to wage war on Iraq with or without United
Nations endorsement. Such an outcome, he says, would unleash unforeseen
and incalculable consequences. It would be a dangerous step towards
remaking the World Order in the US image and to its own benefit.

Available from the New International Bookshop or direct from Rosenberg
Publishing,
PO Box 6125, Dural Delivery Centre, NSW 2158
ORDER FORM

Please supply me with .copy/copies of What's Right? by Eric Aarons
at recommended retail price of $24.95 (including GST) plus $5.00 post and
packing.  I enclose a cheque/money order for $. or please
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LL:DDV: 'Access to Medicines' Evening Forum

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Centre Events: Events from the Centre for Public policy, The University
of Melbourne. (For information on how to unsubscribe, please see the 
bottom of this email) Good morning,

Just a reminder that the Centre for Public Policy 'The State of Health'
evening forum series, starts on Tuesday the 1st of April at 5:30pm.

Katherine Dinh, Director, Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, 
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Sydney, will be 
addressing the topic 'Linking the Local with the Global in Promoting 
Access to Medicines'.

Beverley Snell from the Centre for International Health, Macfarlane
Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, will be 
addressing 'Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries and 
New Challenges'.

This event will be chaired by Associate Professor David Legge, School
of Public Health, Latrobe University. Biographies for all participants 
are pasted at the bottom of this email.

Please note also that our 'Frontiers in Social Policy - Where to From
Here?' series begins on Thursday the 3rd of April with the OECD's Dr 
Peter Scherer discussing 'Ability and Disability: Disabled People and 
the Labour Market'. This event will be chaired by Professor Stephen 
Duckett, Professor of Health Policy, Dean of the Faculty of Health 
Sciences, and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Health Developments) at La Trobe 
University.

There is no cost involved in any of our events and no need to RSVP.
Each event is held in the Centre for Public Policy Lecture Theatre, 2nd
Floor, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton. Street parking is available.

Please don't hesitate to email me if you have further questions
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and of course, please feel free to circulate
this email amongst friends and colleagues.

I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday the 1st.



Warmest regards,

Lauren Rosewarne


Lauren Rosewarne BA, BPPM (Hons), PhD Candidate
Centre Mangaer
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Participant Biographies

Katherine Dinh
Director, Access to Essential Medicines Campaign
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Sydney

Kathryn Dinh is Director of the Access to Essential Medicines Campaign
for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an international campaign which aims 
to promote increased research into neglected diseases and ensure 
essential medicines are accessible and affordable in developing 
countries. Ms Dinh's past experience includes working in health project 
management in the Pacific as well as social impact consultancy work for 
AusAID in Vietnam.  Ms Dinh has coordinated communications across the 
former Soviet Union for MSF, including advising field teams in Russia, 
Central Asia and the Caucasus. She has worked as an advisor in Pakistan, 
in conjunction with WHO and the International Union Against Tuberculosis 
and Lung Disease. For several years Ms Dinh has also worked as a 
journalist and radio documentary maker.

Ms Dinh's main areas of expertise include international and national
advocacy, behavioural change communications and project management.
Kathryn has a BA (Communication) degree from the University of 
Technology, Sydney, and is currently a candidate for the Masters of 
International Public Health at the University of Sydney.

Beverley Snell
Centre for International Health
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health

Beverley Snell's first qualification was in Pharmacy from where she
moved towards public health with special interest in refugees and
humanitarian emergencies, Primary Health Care and HIV/AIDS prevention 
and care. She also teaches in the International Health stream of
Monash University's Master of Public Health program. During the 1980s,
she worked in public health programs in refugee and stable communities 
in Somalia and since 1990, with the essential drugs sector in Eritrea. 
She has also worked on PHC program design and development, and manuals 
and texts in the Philippines, Tibet, East Timor, and India. She has 
undertaken consultancies for NGOs and international agencies, including 
WHO and UNICEF.


Chair:
Associate Professor David Legge
School of Public Health, Latrobe University

David Legge is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at
LaTrobe University, academic coordinator for the Victorian Public
Health Training Scheme and Director of the La Trobe China Health 
Program. He has had a number of involvements in health policy analysis, 
development and implementation in Victoria and nationally over the last 
25 years and has been teaching health policy for the last 12 years. He 
has had a particular interest in the political economy of health at the 
local, national and international levels for many years.

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LL:DDV: the Women's Circus - live theatre is endangered

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Dear Friends

Live theatre is endangered!


The  Women's Circus major performance season of GHOSTS will only run 
from now until April 5th. And then it's all over. That's the deal with 
live theatre. You can't ask your mum to tape it, you can't get it from a 
video library on a lazy Sunday afternoon, you can't order it through the
mail...it's now or never. So what are you waiting for? Bookings 9685 
5111 or try your luck at the door.


and then you can say (when the youth of tomorrow look up and ask)
  ... "yep, I was there, at the world premiere"

(Shows run Wedesday - Saturday nights at Shed 14 in the Melbourne 
Docklands show starts at 8.30pm)




Quotes from  review by Helen Thomson, THE AGE this morning (Thursday). 
Page 4 in The Culture.

"SHARP TOPIC AND FRESH STYLE MAKE A POWERFUL STATEMENT"

"The effect is poetic, suggestive and moving."

"...remarkable music score..."

" this is a marvellously imaginative and evocative show that 
celebrates the Women's Circus 13th year with a fresh style and an 
emphatically relevant subject."

Details of GHOSTS

Researched and developed by the Women's Circus

Written and directed by Andrea Lemon

Every day walking beside us are the ghosts of people, places and things 
we thought lost to us forever. GHOSTS takes us to an unholy limbo, 
peopled by wraiths caught between the real and the remembered, searching 
for release.

With trademark courage and passion, the Women's Circus brings together 
over 50 women in a large scale production combining aerials, balance,
dance, music and puppetry.

Composer / Musical Director: Andrea rieniets
Rigging Design: Franca Stadler
Movement: Teresa Blake
Circus: Andrea Ousley, Sarah Gosling
Puppetry: Megan Cameron
Set Design: Trina Parker
Costume Design: Amanda Silk
Lighting Design: Gina Gascoigne
Sound Designer: Dawn Holland

March 14 / 19 - 22 / 26 - 29 / April 2 - 5 2003 @ 8.30pm
Tickets $26.50 / $16.50
Preview Thursday 13th March @8.30pm All tickets $11 No bookings
Special price Wed 19th all tickets $15.50 at the door

Bookings 9685 5111
Disability access enquiries 9687 3665
The Women's Circus respectfully acknowledges the Kulin Nation as the
traditional owners of the land on which we are performing

-- 
Emma Heughan
General Manager
Women's Circus


Phone: 9687 3665
Fax: 9689 7886


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LL:DDV: Peace actions in Victoria - if war breaks out

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Subject: Peace actions in Victoria - if war breaks out

IF WAR STARTS...
*
Rally on that day at 5 pm at State Library, city
(Youth against war rally 4.30pm Federation Square and march to State
Library)

AND
Unionists rally next working day, noon at Trades Hall

FOLLOWED BY
Rally on Saturday 1pm at State Library
(which Saturday depends on day of week war starts)
check   www.vicpeace.org for details


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MAJOR RALLY -- PALM SUNDAY 13 April @ 2pm

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54 Victoria Street, Carlton South Vic 3053.
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LL:DDV: Invitation to Launch of What's Right? by Eric Aarons

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What's Right? By Eric Aarons
To be launched in Melbourne at 3pm, Saturday, April 5, 2003  by the
Reverend Tim Costello.
NEW INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP
Trades Hall, Corner of Lygon & Victoria Sts., Carlton

Noted labour historian, Dr Peter Love, will chair proceedings.

In his latest book, Eric Aarons examines the major political philosophies
- classical liberalism; its radically different offshoot, neo-liberalism;
socialism; and social democracy.  Aarons believes that none of these is
adequate to meet today's challenges, and aims to stimulate discussion
leading towards an alternative that would foster the kind of society
required to meet human needs in the twenty first century.

This task becomes all the more urgent as the United States and a few
subservient allies prepare to wage war on Iraq with or without United
Nations endorsement. Such an outcome, he says, would unleash unforeseen
and incalculable consequences. It would be a dangerous step towards
remaking the World Order in the US image and to its own benefit.

Available from the New International Bookshop or direct from Rosenberg
Publishing,
PO Box 6125, Dural Delivery Centre, NSW 2158
ORDER FORM

Please supply me with .copy/copies of What's Right? by Eric Aarons
at recommended retail price of $24.95 (including GST) plus $5.00 post and
packing.  I enclose a cheque/money order for $. or please
charge my credit card
Bankcard/Mastercard/Visa  Expirydate...


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LL:AA: Friends of Suai drought appeal

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AND WE THOUGHT OUR DROUGHT WAS BAD - KIDS DYING IN EAST TIMOR
FRIENDSHIP CITY

Port Phillip mayor, Darren Ray, is appealing to local residents and
businesses to give generously to aid the drought-stricken community of
Suai in East Timor. Last week, six Suai children died of malnutrition 
and another four were evacuated to Dili Hospital for treatment.

"$10,000 has already been donated via this year's rate payments but
that is not going to save the dying kids or relieve the very real 
suffering of their families. Just as our residents are paying their 
rates, I make an urgent and special appeal to them to dig deeper into 
their pockets over the next few months," he said.

Cr Ray explained that in 2000 the City of Port Phillip made a ten-year
commitment to help rebuild Suai, a coastal town almost totally
destroyed in the wake of the East Timorese vote for independence the 
previous year.

"Just as Suai was getting slowly back on its feet, it's been knocked
for six again by the same terrible drought afflicting much of Australia. 
It's been tough here but the ramifications for East Timorese communities 
such as Suai are devastating. The major difference though is that in 
Suai there aren't supermarkets with plenty of food in them.

"The market produce in Suai has really dried up and there does not seem
to be any relief in sight. The wet started in November so people in the
surrounding Covalima district planted rice, corn and other crops but
then the wet stopped. The crops have died and they've lost their seed 
stock. The few crops which have survived the drought were recently 
destroyed in a severe storm.

"Normally, farmers in East Timor expect El Nino to inflict a drought
every five or seven years and plan for this. However, they haven't had a
chance to build up stockpiles of seed since the terrible events of 1999 
when the Indonesians and militia literally laid waste to all crops, 
animal stocks and physical infrastructure," he said.

Cr Ray said that the friends of Suai, the Port Phillip community group,
had donated $6000 to the Suai hospital to provide nutritional 
supplements to children presenting with malnutrition.

"The best help we can give is money rather than goods. Getting goods to
Suai from Melbourne is still a logistical nightmare. With cash, the 
local community can bring in seed stock from Indonesia. It also gives 
them the resources needed to start digging bores," he said.

Over the longer term, Cr Ray said, friends of Suai would be working
with the Suai community committee to pinpoint areas of greatest need.

"Over sixty people, including lots of women, turned up to a recent
meeting to form a new Suai community committee which will be run on 
collective principles. Office bearers were elected last week but all 
meetings are open to anyone in the community who wishes to attend. This 
is the single most positive achievement to date between the friendship 
groups here in Port Phillip and on the ground in Suai. Sheryl Hazel who 
was appointed late last year by Australian Volunteers International and 
the council to work closely with the committee as an international 
advisor," he said.

Ms Hazel is an experienced community development officer who has worked
extensively with youth in outback Australia. It's not been easy going
for Ms Hazel who has had a motorbike accident and suffered from bouts of
dengue fever and malaria since her appointment.

Friends of Suai has refurbished a community centre in Suai. The centre
has been running nine computer classes a week and a community radio 
station funded by the World Bank. However, the radio station has stopped
broadcasting because it no longer has the funds to buy the diesel to
operate its generator. Funding is being sought for the resumption of
broadcasts. Friends of Suai has also supplied refurbished computers to 
Suai students studying in Dili. Friends of Suai and the local branch of 
Rotary are also committed to rebuilding a preschool in Suai.

Cr Ray said that it was difficult for most Australians to grasp the
difficulties experienced in the rebuilding of Suai and other parts of
East Timor.

"I visited Suai last year and, even though I'd been told what to
expect, I was still shocked by the degree of devastation still evident. 
Resources and services Australians take for granted just don't exist or 
are prohibitively expensive. There is still no full-time power supply. 
Buying the diesel to run generators is not cheap. Some buildings still 
lack roofs or roofs that don't leak so, when it does rain, equipment 
like computers can get damaged. There aren't enough teachers so primary 
school children are lucky to get two hours a day schooling and high 
school children, four hours a day.

"Official government documents (mostly from Dili) are written in
Portuguese which is not understood by a lot of people so there are real
communication problems. East Timor is a very poor country but the prices 
for many things are on a par with Australia.

"On the pos

LL:DDV: Coming Peace Events in Victoria

[Shute, Carmel]

Fri 14 Feb, 5pm: Major rally at State Library, 6.15pm at Federation
Square.
Info: 9659 3582
[High school strike from 2pm. Gather at Federation Square]

Other events:


Wed 5 Feb, 11am: Protest and leafleting at office of Peter Costello, 
1027 High St, Armadale. Info: 9659 3582

Wed 5 Feb, 7pm: Initial meeting Dandenong ranges (The Hills) Loacl Group,

Earthly Pleasures Cafe, 1669 Burwood Hghwy, Belgrave.

Sat 8 Feb, 11am: Ballarat peace rally, meet at cnr Drummond & Sturt Sts.
Info: Judy 5333 1195

Sat 8 Feb, 1pm: No Bush fire in Iraq - protest at US embassy, 533 St
Kilda Rd. Bring a small bag of rice. Info: 9659 3582

Tue 11 February, 7.30-9pm: anti war meeting at Rye Public Hall, corner
Napier and Nelson St Rye. Info: Stuart 0409 213 912

Thur 13 February, 7.30-9pm: anti war meeting at the Mornington
Information Centre, 320 Main St Mornington. Info: Stuart 0409 213 912

Fri 14 Feb, 5pm: Major rally at State Library, 6.15pm at Federation
Square.
Info: 9659 3582
[High school strike from 2pm. Gather at Federation Square]


Sat 15 February, from 10am: Protest at International Air Show, Avalon.
Info: Therese 0414 808 256

Sat 15 Feb, 1pm: Rally for Peace outside the office of Liberal Flinders
MP Greg Hunt's office near the corner of Salmon and High St Hastings. BYO
banners and placards. Info: Stuart 0409 213 912

Sun 16 February, noon-3pm: Peace Picnic at Queens Park, Moonee Ponds.
Wear something white and bring cut white flowers or a pot plant of white
flowers (and BYO picnic). Info: Peter 9370 5104

Sat 1 March, 1pm: Western Suburbs Multicultural Picnic for Peace. Info:
0417 456 001

Wed 5 March: National student strike against war.
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Thur 6 March, 7pm: Public meeting with Darebin Anti-war group. More
details soon. Info: 9486 5472

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LL:DDV: Children of the Gulf War Exhibition - 31/1 - 10/2

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Although it is late notice this very timely and important exhibition 
needs support and all interested parties are invited. Please circulate 
widely through your networks . . .

Children of the Gulf War
a photographic exhibition by Takashi Morizumi
31st January - 10th February 2003
12-6pm Everyday except Tuesday

@ Horti Hall Gallery - 31 Victoria Street - Melbourne - VIC

This deeply moving exhibition has received international critical acclaim.
It documents the aftermath of the Gulf War and focuses on the lasting 
effects of the 300 tonnes of Depleted Uranium Weapons that were used. It 
especially centres on the plight of the many children who have been 
affected by these weapons. Depleted Uranium Weapons are known to 
causeleukemia, liver and kidney problems as well as vastly increasing 
thechances of abnormalities at birth.


Takashi Morizumi who is a well respected photojournalist and advocate of 
a nuclear free world has been documenting the unfurling tragedy in Iraq 
since the late 1990's.


Sponsored by Melbourne City Council.
http://www.vicpeace.org/iraq/actions/exhibition.html


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LL:DDV: Onevoiceforpeace - women's rally, 12 noon, Mon 20/1

[Shute, Carmel]

'Not in our name'

At noon, Monday January 20th, on the steps of Parliament House, 
Melbourne (top Spring Street), hundreds of women are coming together to 
form a banner of faith.

In order to make our protest against the proposed war in Iraq visible,
we will wear our bras on the outside of our clothes.

Please join us.

Have great faith that we can stop this if we say no, but have absolute
certainty that it will go ahead if we don't.

Kerry Armstrong and Sue Turnbull
http://www.onevoiceforpeace.org/main.cfm

We will be joined by:  Lynn Allison, Jane Cunningham, Natasha Stott 
Despoja, Rebecca Gibney, Deborra Mailman,  Annie Phelan

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LL:DDV: David Strong's new theatre show - Mr Drip

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DISLOCATE is pleased to announce its newest show, a solo piece by Geoff
Dunstan, for eleven performances only at the North Melbourne Town Hall 
from 13th - 23rd December 2002.

Mr Drip is an innovative fable telling the story of an unwelcome visitor 
who arrives at a small inner suburban bedsit, throws out its occupant, 
takes over, and completely changes a previously comfortable, happy and 
stable environment.

Mr Drip highlights issues affecting the psyche of modern Australia. The
production centres around the key image of a dripping tap - a constant
background reminder of something a little bit off and the character of 
Mr Drip juxtaposes the innocence of the jester and clown with the 
complexities of modern living.

Mr Drip is superb social comedy presented by physical theatre company
DISLOCATE who have just returned from a highly successful season at the
Dublin International Arts Festival, and performances throughout the 
United Kingdom, and were nominated last year for a Green Room Award for 
their Melbourne Festival performance of Risk Reduction.

Mr Drip with exploit DISLOCATE's wonderful blend of acrobatic agility 
with thoughtful narrative and drama.

Mr Drip is presented by DISLOCATE with assistance from the City of
Melbourne.

Enquiries: Sharon Nathani tel: 0403 343 882 or by email:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Performances: 8.00pm at the North Melbourne Town Hall Dec 13th - 15th, 
17th - 23rd.

Tickets available from the C.U.B. Malthouse Box Office (tel: 9685 5111)
or at the North Melbourne Town Hall at the door.  $16/$12 concession.

All tickets for the Preview are $5 at the North Melbourne Town Hall.

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LL:INFO: email list for anti-war events

[Shute, Carmel]

I have established a "stop the war annoucement list" to keep unionists 
and interested community members up to date with peace movement events. 
The intention is that it be a low traffic email list, with 1-2 emails 
(max) per week.

If you would like to join the email list you can send an email to:
  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or email me,   
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will add you.

Please forward this email on to interested organisers and delegates in 
your union and to friends and activists who want to keep up to date with 
the movement

If you have a notice you would like to post to this list you should 
email me.  The focus of this list will be the major demonstrations, 
particularly the November 30 Walk against the War, and then the Palm 
Sunday March next year.

In solidarity,


Amanda

Amanda Tattersall
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0408 05 7779

* * * * * * * * * * * *
Amanda Tattersall
Special Projects Officer
Labor Council of NSW
ph  (02) 9264 1691
m   0408 057 779
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LL:INFO: Request for Xmas gifts for Asylum Seekers

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Dear SpareRoomers

Here is a way of helping make Christmas in detention less miserable:

In the week after Christmas a small group of people will be travelling
from Sydney to visit at Baxter and Woomera. They will be taking donated
goods and presents with them. Below is a list of items we'd love to get 
more of to take with us if anyone can help out.

Also they are trying to raise money for part of the costs - all of them
will be paying for personal costs of transport and accomodation, but 
need to raise a little bit of money for transporting the goods, trailer 
hire, boxing up gifts etc. They'd prefer to work for donations by giving 
talks or things like that but for groups located far from sydney that's 
not so easy for them.

Please contact Kate Gauthier 02 9590 5290 or  
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Thanks.  Gift list below

Kate Durham
   www.SpareRoomsForRefugees.com

Julian Burnside
-
Julian Burnside QC
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All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.  -  Martin
Luther King, Jr.

-
Gift wish list

If anything is being donated 2nd hand, please make sure it is clean and 
in good working order. We cannot afford to fix items, or buy missing 
cables etc.

In case any new items need to be exchanged, please tape the receipt to 
the box, or keep the receipt and write your name and contact details on 
a piece of paper taped to the box.

For every item donated we have to raise funds to transport it. Please 
help us by donating money towards the transportation costs for your gift.

PLAYSTATIONS
Sony Playstation2 $400 - would be best if we could get them converted so
they can play "Backup" games.
Games - can take playstation 1 and 2
TVs to plug playstations into

RADIOS
10 band radios to get international stations
Sangean 10-band portable Shortwave Receiver
Dick Smith Catalogue# D2834 $69.94

Sangean shortwave antenna booster
Dick Smith Catalogue# D4400
$26.20

CD & CASSETTE PLAYERS
Please note that NO audio equipment can have recording features or it 
will not be allowed by ACM. If you cannot find a cassette player without
recording, we can pay to have the recording feature disabled by Tandy in
Port Augusta. Please donate $5-$10 towards this cost.
Dick Smith has a sony CD walkman for $99
Dick Smith has a Digitor CD/radio boom box for $89. Cat #A5545
Dick Smith has a TEAC CD/radio boom box for $129. Cat #A1539
Also have Sharp CD/Radio/Cassette players for $100
Cassette walkmans cost about $15 - $40 each.
Tandy have pretty much the same products for same price

ENGLISH LEARNING TOOLS
Books with cassette or CD are the best kind.
Dictionaries

VIDEOS AND DVDS
Any kind of movies, in english and other languages. If you have any old
ones lying around, pass them on. Some people have said they like Indian
musicals.

BOOKS
Books for children and adults of varying types. Fiction, non-fiction,
educational, picture books etc New and used are fine, but in good
condition please.

SUBSCRIPTIONS
Subscribe someone to a newspaper, or national geographic or gets kids 
GEO magazine. Contact Kate Gauthier on  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or 02 9590 5290 if you would like to buy a subscription.

COMPUTERS & COMPUTER ACCCESSORIES
Got an old laptop or desktop or printer you don't use anymore? Please 
make sure it is in working order and has all the cables, mouse, keyboard 
etc.

We cannot afford and don't have time to sort these things out. If it has 
an internal modem, let us know, as that will have to be disabled.

FOOD ITEMS
Non-perishable food Dried Fruit or Nut baskets, biscuits. Muesli bars, etc
etc

Please contact Kate Gauthier on 9590 5290 or  
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LL:DDV: Amnesty human right day lunch - Fri 6/12, Grand Hyatt

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Amnesty International Australia Presents:

'Moving Forward - Bringing Refugee Policy Back to Human Rights'

an International Human Rights Day Luncheon.

December 6th, 2002.
1pm-2pm at Max's, Grand Hyatt Melbourne, 123 Collins St Melbourne.

Tickets: $50 per person includes two course lunch and drinks.
Please join Peter Mares (Journalist and Award winning author of 
'Borderline: Australia's response to refugees and asylum seekers in the 
wake of the Tampa '), Paris Aristotle (Director of the Foundation for 
Survivors of Torture and member of the Immigration Detention Advisory 
Group) and Grant Mitchell (Director of Hotham Mission 's Asylum Seeker 
Project and primary author of the 2002 JAS Alternative to Detention) for 
a panel discussion on the direction of government policy on 
refugee/asylum seeker issues in Australia.

AIA advocates the promotion and consideration of detention reform and
the consideration of viable alternatives to the current system of
mandatory, indefinite and non (court) reviewable detention. A0 This 
forum will allow experts in the area to discuss the viability of 
alternatives that respect the human rights of refugees and asylum 
seekers and answer your questions on the topic.

Please join us to help raise the awareness of viable detention reform
options that respect the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees.

For more details or to book a ticket, please call the A0AIA Victorian
Activist Resource Centre on 9427 7055. A0 For further information, 
please call Matthew Panayi on 9499 4616 or James Thevathasan on 0414 446 
697 or e-mail queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Thankyou all for you support.

Matthew Panayi

Co-convenor, AIA Victorian Refugee Team. A0

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LL:DDN: People's protest at WTO Meeting, Sydney, Nov 14-15

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Sydney WTO Meeting, 14-15 November 2002
AFTINET has convened a broad meeting of unions, environment 
organisations, church groups, human rights and development groups and 
other community organisations to organise events around the "informal" 
Sydney WTO meeting on November 14-15.  We plan to hold an educational 
seminar on Sunday November 10 and a peaceful rally on November 14.


Further details will be posted on the website www.aftinet.org.au and 
send by post.


Below is the statement about the meeting. We are asking organisations to
endorse the statement. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] if your 
organisation wishes to endorse the statement and support these actions.

Statement on Sydney WTO meeting

On November 14-15 2002 an "informal" meeting of the World Trade 
Organisation (WTO) will be held in Sydney. Only 25 of the 144 member 
governments of the WTO have been invited. The WTO is dominated by the 
economically powerful: the USA, Canada, Europe and Japan. The Australian 
government has joined with them to pressure selected governments to 
support an agenda dominated by transnational corporations.

In a world where 2 billion people live on less than US$2 per day with 
little access to health, education and water services, and with 
continued destruction of the environment, this agenda puts corporate 
rights before worker and human rights. This contributes to displacement 
of people, and to war.

The WTO agenda includes:

*   Treating essential services like health, education and water as
commercial goods, opening them to privatisation.

*   Undermining social and environmental sustainability by reducing
government regulation of trade and investment.

*   Further tariff cuts regardless of their impact in terms of job
losses and economic insecurity.

*   Preaching free trade in agriculture to benefit subsidised
corporations in rich countries while undermining food security in poor
countries.

*   Restricting governments from using government purchasing to assist 
local jobs and development.

*   Giving corporations patenting rights regardless of the impact on
basic needs, such as medicine and seeds.

We oppose and reject this undemocratic and elitist meeting.

Fair Trade, not Free Trade

A better world is possible. We support multilateral regulation of trade
through open and democratic processes with all nations freely 
participating. Trade is not an end in itself, but should support social 
and environmental objectives.

*   Trade agreements should incorporate United Nations standards on
human rights, land rights, labour rights and the environment.

*   Essential public services should not be included in trade
agreements.

*   Governments should retain full rights to regulate for social and
environmental reasons, and to have industry policies to support local 
jobs and development.

*   Corporations must conform to United Nations standards on human
rights, labour rights and the ecological sustainability of the planet we 
all share.

We will organise to raise public awareness, and peaceful protest, based 
on democratic decision-making by the broadest possible range of 
organisations including signatories to this statement.

We encourage all organizations and individuals who believe a better 
world is possible to come to Sydney in November 2002 and participate in 
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LL:AA: URGENT: SIEVX MEMORIAL APPEAL UPDATE

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URGENT UPDATE ON SIEVX MEMORIAL NOTICE APPEAL - 5 October 2001

We have less than two weeks to raise the $6,613 needed to run
the 1/8 page memorial notice in the Weekend Australian on 19
October (see below for details).

We have successfully raised about $1,000 so far - if another
110 people each donate $50 then we will achieve our target.

So if you are intending to participate in this action, please
do it now.

Donations can be made by credit card over the phone to the
Edmund Rice Centre (as well as by email, and by cheque through
the mail - see below). Please donate whatever you can afford -
every bit helps.

Please circulate this notice further to any appropriate email
lists etc.

Thanks again to the Edmund Rice Centre - this could not have
been done without their expert help.

Please note that details below of some commemorative events
have been updated.


~~~
   SIEVX 1st ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL NOTICE

Your help is urgently needed!

The first anniversary of the sinking of SIEVX, October 19
2002, is nearly upon us. To honour and commemorate the memory
of 353 lives lost when their boat sank last October, and to
commiserate with the few survivors and the many bereaved
families, we are planning a public memorial notice in the news
pages of "The Weekend Australian" on Saturday 19 October.

This initiative has been launched by the SIEVX First
Anniversary Memorial Notice Working Group, which comprises a
group of friends of the www.sievx.com website.

The Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education, an
experienced and highly reputable Catholic professional social
justice organisation active in refugee support -
http://www.erc.org.au - has agreed to receive and handle
monies donated towards the cost of the notice.

The ERC will direct any surplus of funds that may be received
in excess of the cost of the notice towards helping needy
families of boat people in Australia.

The size of notice will likely be an 1/8 of a page. An
advertisement of this size in the news pages of the Weekend
Australian will cost $6,613.

We are asking for your generous support in contributing
towards its cost. Please, notify and send to ERC your
donations as soon as possible, to give us a measure of what
size notice we can afford to run. All contributions, no matter
how small, will help. Persons and organisations who offer
large contributions may be acknowledged by name in the notice,
depending on how much space we have.


WHY IS THIS FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL NOTICE IMPORTANT
(When there are asylum seeker families in Australia in need of
material assistance?)

Because it will be a public recognition on the first
anniversary of this huge tragedy, and a public message of
support for the victims of SIEVX and their grieving family
members, and for others who have suffered on their attempted
boat journeys to Australia. It will testify publicly that many
people who live in Australia share their pain.

We do not know to what extent mainstream media may recognise
their responsibility properly to commemorate this major
Australian tragedy on our doorstep. We want to show by this
memorial notice that many Australians do care deeply about it,
and care for its human victims. We also want to remind those
who have already forgotten this human tragedy.


WHAT WILL THE NOTICE CONTAIN ?

An appropriately worded general message of condolence
(inspired by words from the many moving messages that are
coming in to the SIEVX website's "Jannah" memorial section ~
see http://sievx.com/jannah/ ).

A short informational statement of what is so far known about
the sinking of SIEVX, based on Senate Committee official
evidence. This is not intended to be a contentious or
controversial "political" statement. It will be quiet and
dignified in tone, aimed at stating succinctly facts about
which there can be no reasonable disagreement. It will not
hypothesise or accuse - this public memorial notice is not the
place for that.

Summary reminders of SIEVX observances and rallies planned for
the 19/20 October weekend in cities around Australia.

The text, which is being drafted by the Working Group, will
not be released publicly until its appearance on 19 October.
It will be sent to major media news outlets (print and
electronic) two days before its publication date, on a
strictly embargoed basis, to encourage media interest in the
anniversary.

It is not proposed that the notice should contain
illustrations or list names of victims or survivors, for
reasons of family privacy and space.


SUPPORT THE SIEVX ANNIVERSARY NEWSPAPER NOTICE

HOW CAN I MAKE MY DONATION?

There are 3 ways donations can be made:


1. CREDIT CARD or CHEQUE
(Please cut out this slip or download the slip from
the internet at http://www.erc.org.au/sievx_form.htm
and forward with your payment to the address below)


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Donation:   $25;  $100; _ $500; _ Oth

LL:DDV: Don Dunstan Foundation Lecture

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Good Morning

Professor Mark Considine and I would like to remind you about the Centre 
for Public Policy / Don Dunstan Foundation inaugural lecture on 
Wednesday October 16th, 5:30pm.

They keynote speaker at this event will be Professor Julian Disney, 
Director of the Social Justice Project at the University of New South 
Wales. This event will be chaired by former Victorian Premier, John Cain.

Professor Disney will be speaking on the topic 'Globalisation and Social
Justice: Challenges and Opportunities'. The event will be held in the 
Public Policy Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, 234 Queensberry Street, 
Carlton - it is free, open to the public and there is no need to RSVP. 
Professor Julian Disney's biography is below.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about this
event - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / ph 8344 9482.

More information about Centre for Public Policy events (including the
upcoming Sustainable Development forum and workshops) can be found at 


Cheers,

Lauren.

-- 
Lauren Rosewarne
Centre Manager
Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne 3010
Phone : 8344 9482 / Fax : 9349 4442
Visit our website < http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/
 >


Biography for Professor Julian Disney

Julian Disney was born in London in 1947 and immigrated to Australia in
1952. He was educated in Adelaide and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws
(First Class Honours) from the University of Adelaide. While at 
university, he was a member of the All-Australian Amateur team in 
Australian Rules football and of the South Australian State debating 
team. He also co-edited the student newspaper. He then attended Oxford 
University as a Rhodes Scholar undertaking post-graduate studies in law.

After returning to Australia, he was a university lecturer and NSW Law
Reform Commissioner, as well as being closely involved in the foundation 
of the Redfern Legal Centre. He then became Coordinator of the Welfare 
Rights Centre in Sydney, where he worked for six years assisting people 
who had disabilities, were unemployed, homeless or experiencing other 
forms of hardship.

Julian Disney was a member of the Board of the Australian Council of 
Social Service for fourteen years and was honorary President of ACOSS 
from 1985-89. In this capacity, he was involved in numerous delegations, 
campaigns and other activities aimed at promoting the interests of 
disadvantaged people in Australia. He was a member for eight years of 
the Australian Government's Economic Planning Advisory Council and also 
a member of government advisory bodies relating to education, 
employment, training, social security, housing and migration.

Since 1986, Julian Disney has represented Australia on the International
Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and from 1996-2000 he was honorary 
World President of the Council. ICSW is the main international coalition 
of non-governmental organisations which promote social welfare, social 
justice and social development. It was founded in Paris in 1928 and now 
represents tens of thousands of organisations in more than eighty 
countries. As President of ICSW, he led delegations to numerous meetings 
of the United Nations and other international organisations, as well as 
giving addresses, conducting workshops and assisting community 
organisations in many different countries. He continues to be actively 
involved on international issues through ICSW and consultancies with the 
United Nations and the International Labour Organisation.

Julian Disney was Professor of Public Law at the Australian National
University from 1991-97 and Director of the Centre for International and
Public Law from 199597. He is currently Professor and Director of the 
Social Justice Project at the University of New South Wales in Sydney 
and has been appointed by the Australian Government to its Welfare 
Reform Consultative Forum. He has been the principal author or editor of 
a number of books (including the Independent Social Security Handbook) 
and many articles relating to social security, social welfare, public 
administration, taxation and parliaments. In 1994, he was appointed an 
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to the development 
of economic and social welfare policy, and to the law. In 1999, he was 
awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws (LL.D) by the University of New 
South Wales. In 2001, he was presented with a special Australian 
Achievement award by the National Australia Day Council.

Julian Disney is married to Carolyn Strange and has two children, Simon 
(13) and Adam (11). He lives in Sydney.


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LL:DDV: DAS KAPITAL DA KABERET - must see Fringe!!

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ONE NIGHT ONLY!

DAS KAPITAL DA KABERET


POLITICAL CABERET & SATIRE

featuring  . . .
the talented talents of
Rachel Berger   Lynda Gibson
Simon Rogers, Matt Green & Russell Fletcher
an Address to the Nation written by Guy Rundle
and delivered by The Mystery Guest
Gerard McCulloch   Monica Dullard
musical music by
Croque Monsieur   The Trades Hall Choir
and much, much more . . .


Poke fun at the Pollies . . .
Pie the face of global capitalism . . .
Get Loud!
Get Proud!!
GET BOISTEROUS!!!


One Night ONLY  8pm Friday October 18th
The New Ballroom - Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St (cnr Lygon St) Carlton
Tickets $20 Full/ $15 Concession  BOOK NOW! Ph: 9416 3888
www.tradeshallarts.com.au 
for more info Ph: 9662 3555


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LL:DDV: Art of Dissent - National Conference - final program

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---ART OF DISSENT -  A NATIONAL CONFERENCE---
SPIEGELTENT & VICTORIAN ARTS CENTRE
20-22 OCTOBER 2002


Dear Friend and Colleague,

I invite you to join us for the Art of Dissent, an exciting conference 
to be presented in conjunction with the upcoming Melbourne Festival.  I 
would be grateful if you forward this to your colleagues who may have an 
interest.

At a time when so much in our lives is uncertain - both here and 
overseas - and the challenges our humanity faces are so immense, we 
think it is time to host a national arts symposium where the discourse 
is set exclusively in a social and cultural context; where economic 
considerations are suspended - if only briefly. We want to acknowledge 
the function of 'dissent' as an essential ingredient in any democracy 
and especially crucial in the quest towards cultural democracy. We want 
to explore the arts' connection with communities in all their diversity 
and with the prevailing social issues that face us all.

We do hope you'll be able to join us at the Art of Dissent Conference in
October. Further details can be found in via http://www.ArtofDissent.com -

Yours Sincerely,

JUDY SPOKES
Executive Officer
Cultural Development Network (Vic)
Ph:   03 9658 8850
Fax: 03 9658 8436
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LL:DDV: ANTI-WAR RALLY - 1pm Sunday 13 October, State Library

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ANTI-WAR RALLY
NO WAR ON IRAQ! No Australian involvement
1pm Sunday 13 October
State Library
Endorsed by VTHC, NUS and truckloads of others. See www.vicpeace.org
for more info.

Carmel Shute
Council Media Officer
City of Port Phillip
Ph: 03 9209 6163
Fax: 03 9525 4640
Mob: 0412 569 356
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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LL:DDV: BRIGIDINE ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INFORMATION

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BRIGIDINE ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INFORMATION & DISCUSSION SESSIONS

Port Phillip mayor, Darren Ray, is urging local residents to take 
advantage of the four information and discussions sessions being offered 
by the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project in Albert Park from October 7 -10.

Topics scheduled for discussion include detention centre, mandatory
detention, the political realities at work, some of the myths 
surrounding the issue and the 'Pacific Solution'. The motto for the 
project is the biblical quotation, "I was a stranger and you made me 
welcome."

Cr Ray congratulated the Brigidine sisters on their amazing work with
refugees.

"The Brigidine sisters offer shelter to asylum seekers. They visit 
asylum seekers in the Maribyrnong detention centre and organise others 
who want to do likewise. Through campaigns and information sessions, 
they fight for the rights of asylum seekers.

"The City of Port Phillip shares their concerns which is one reason why, 
in June, we joined with other local governments in declaring this 
municipality a 'refugee welcome zone'. The initiative is being promoted 
by the Refugee Council of Australia. We have also adopted a policy on 
asylum seekers.

"There has been a long and proud history of refugee settlement in Port
Phillip, especially since World War 11. Thousands of refugees from 
war-torn Europe landed at Station Pier and settled locally. This was 
part of the impetus behind the Tampa Tribute in May. In the Middle East, 
Jews and Muslims are at loggerheads but here in Australia, and most 
especially this community, the Jewish community has been most vociferous 
in speaking up for the rights of refugees, many of whom are Muslim. They 
know what it is like to be a stranger in a strange land, or in a strange 
sea.

"At the moment, unlike our counterparts in Moreland, Darebin and 
Dandenong, the City of Port Phillip is not directly involved in settling 
people on temporary protection visas. Some have joined our community 
thanks to amazing efforts of the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Projects and 
four currently live in a house on Beaconsfield Parade. Other refugees 
live in Office of Housing accommodation in places like Park Towers in 
South Melbourne," he said.

The information and discussion sessions are at 52 Beaconsfield Parade,
Albert Park (enter from Foote Street):

*   1-3pm, Monday October 7
*   7.30 - 9.30pm, Monday October 7
*   7.30 - 9.30pm, Wednesday October 9
*   1-3pm, Monday October 10

Book by ringing 9696 2107 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Enquiries:  After hours
Carmel ShuteDarren Ray
Council Media Officer   Mayor
Tel: 9209 6163 Fax: 9525 4640   Tel: 9527 5364 (h)
Mobile: 0412 569 356Mobile: 0413 334 523
Council webpage: www.portphillip.vic.gov.au


Carmel Shute
Council Media Officer
City of Port Phillip
Ph: 03 9209 6163
Fax: 03 9525 4640
Mob: 0412 569 356
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LL:DDV: Annual Theo Sidiropoulos Memorial Lecture

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You are invited to the

Annual Theo SidiropoulosMemorial Lecture

"Encouraging Minorities to Participate and Influence the Political Process"

Presented by Joan Kirner
former Victorian Premier

Monday 7 October, 2002
7.30pm
Queens Hall
Parliament House Melbourne

Theo was the first non-English speaking overseas born to become Mayor of
Collingwood and elected to State Parliament as the Member for Richmond,
later he became the Government Whip in the Cain Labor Government. Theo 
was active and interested in many community issues including migrant and 
ethnic rights, aboriginal land rights, world peace, workers rights and 
community broadcasting. He was also actively involved in the Greek 
resistance movement during the 2nd world war. Theo passed away in 
October 1998.

Anthy Sidiropoulos and her friends will present a selected concert.

Light Refreshments will be provided
RSVP:  George Zangalis 9882 5484 or 0417 319 705
Ken Hovenga 9465 9033


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LL:DDV: 12 MONTHS ON FROM 9/11 Conference, 14 September, 2002

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Subject: FW: TWELVE MONTHS ON FROM 9/11 Conference, 14 September, 2002


Can you come to:
THE TWELVE MONTHS ON FROM 9/11:
TROUBLED TIMES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
FOR AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE?
  A 'Twelve Months On From 9/11: Troubled Times and Their Implications 
for Australia' AFS conference.
Saturday, 14 September, 9am to 5pm, at the RMIT University Kaleide 
Theatre, Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Broadly, the objective of the conference is to examine the aftermath of 
the World Trade Centre tragedy and its implications for Australia, with
particular reference to a possible Australian involvement in hostilities
against Iraq. The keynote address is being delivered by former UN 
Special Commission on Iraqi Disarmament Chairman Richard Butler, and 
other speakers who have accepted to date include the Ambassador for 
Afghanistan, Mahoud Saikal, Professor  William Maley of the Australian 
Defence Forces Academy, and Dr Andy Butfoy and Professor Bruce Grant 
from Monash University.

Fee: $20 student; $35 non-member adult; $30 AFS member

Book via:
The Hon. Dr. Race Mathews,
National Secretary,
The Australian Fabian Society,
GPO Box 2707X,
Melbourne, Vic., 3001,
Australia.

Phone/Fax: (03) 9826 0104,
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ken Coghill PhD,
Telephone: (home) +61 (0)3 5224 1789; (mobile) +61 (0)41 942 6888; (office)
+61 (0)3 9903 1532
Fax: +61 (0)3 9903 1234
Email: (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
   (office) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Homepage: http://www.dragonnet.com.au/kencogl/


for Australian Fabian Society, GPO Box 2707X, Melbourne, 3001, phone/fax
(03) 9826 0104, web site < www.fabian.org.au  > or
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LL:DDV: Ethnic Communities Council Meeting on asylum seekers

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Ethinic Communities Council Meeting on asylum seekers - 6pm, Thurs 25/7 - 
Greek Orthodox Community Centre, 3rd Floor, Corner of Russell and Lonsdale 
Street, Melbourne

The Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria is holding a Council Meeting to 
discuss alternatives to the current government policy of mandatory 
detention of asylum seekers. By exploring current practices by the two 
European countries facing the largest influx of asylum seekers - United 
Kingdom and Germany - as well as community based program proposals 
developed for the situation in Australia we hope to broaden the debate.

Speakers include:
DR. KERSTIN WUSTNER
UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG, FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
AUGSBURG, GERMANY
Dr. Wustner will begin by presenting some figures and data detailing the 
situation of immigrants and asylum seekers in Germany including, how many 
there are and where they come from. After that, Dr. Wustner will explore 
some issues of policies and practices, and finally, some empirical results 
about attitudes of people.

CALLUM INGRAM
FORMER POLICY ADVISOR - HOME AFFAIRS
HOME & SOCIAL DIVISION
SCOTLAND OFFICE, UNITED KINGDOM CIVIL SERVICE
Callum Ingram will speak on the existing United Kingdom approach to Asylum 
Seeker and refugee processing issues. He will address the differences 
between current practices and the recently announced policy developments.

SARINA GRECO
ECUMENICAL MIGRATION CENTRE, BROTHERHOOD OF ST LAURENCE &
CO-CONVENOR, JUSTICE FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS COALITION IN VICTORIA
Justice for Asylum Seekers (JAS) alliance is a statewide advocacy coalition 
comprising community, faith, human rights, welfare and ethnic community 
groups and individuals. This alliance has developed the "Reception and 
Transitional Processing System", a detailed alternative to mandatory 
detention of asylum seekers, that includes placing asylum seekers in 
community settings. Sarina Greco will provide a background to the systemic 
problems in the current system, an overview of JAS's alternative and 
examples of the proposed system at work.

6:00pm, Thursday 25th July, 2002
Greek Orthodox Community Centre
3rd Floor
Corner of Russell and Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
to RSVP and for further information please contact
Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria
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LL:DDV: PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

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The Institute for Social Research presents a seminar on
PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: ARE THEY WORTH THE TROUBLE?

6.30 pm - 8.00 pm, TUESDAY 16 JULY 2002

New International Bookshop Meeting Room
Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Lygon Sts, Carlton (enter via Victoria St
steps)

Admission by donation

Speakers:

Christopher Sheil, University of New South Wales
PPPs: What's the Trouble?

David Hayward, Executive Director, ISR
PPPs: Are They Worth It?

Royce Millar, Freelance Journalist
PPPs: Why They Might Make the News

They're red hot in the UK, and they're starting to get attention here,
thanks to the enthusiastic support of the Bracks Labor government in
Victoria. PPPs are the latest fad in public sector management, involving
deals brokered between governments and private companies to deliver
infrastructure and public services. A developer might build and maintain a
school, while the teachers and students are provided by governments. In
theory, this allows the government to focus on service delivery, while
allowing the private sector to deliver the efficiency gains that its famous
for. A third way of doing things that seems sensible and pragmatic? Who
could object to that?

But there is growing concern that, rather than being a better way, PPPs are
simply another form of privatisation. The private sector takes the profits,
while the public sector carries the risks. In the UK, they're hot because
they're highly controversial and unpopular. Here, they're new and yet to be
tested.

Are they worth the trouble?

Christopher Sheil is a former project leader for the Evatt Foundation. A
columnist for the 'Australian Financial Review', he has written widely on
public policy and economics. His publications include: 'Turning Point: The
State of Australia' (ed.) (Allen & Unwin 1997); 'Water's Fall: Running the
Risks with Economic Rationalism' (Pluto 2000) and 'Globalisation: Australian
Impacts' (UNSW Press 2001).

David Hayward is a well-known commentator on state politics and the budget,
and writes regular opinion pieces for the 'Age'.

David Hudson
Institute for Social Research
Swinburne University of Technology
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LL:DDV: Trivia Night for Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

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Trivia Night
To support the New Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Help raise much needed funds for the new
Asylum Seekers Resource Centre in Thornbury
When?   7:30pm Saturday 13th July
Where?  The Gooch
2 Gooch St, Thornbury
Cost?   $25 pp (includes finger food)
*Drinks available at bar prices


Bookings Essential as tables are limited
Ph: 8430 5381 or
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LL:INFO: Australian Afghan Volunteer Association

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Australian Afghan Volunteer Association
BACKGROUND

The Australian Afghan Volunteer Association (AAVA) has been recently formed 
to provide aid that will help drive the redevelopment of 
Afghanistan.  After the long decades of war, it is imperative that the 
people of Afghanistan are given the opportunity to rebuild the nation and 
this will start with assisting individuals in the development of vocational 
skills.

The AAVA's aim is to focus on facilitating vocational development for 
Afghan individuals by the donation of aid, training and related 
infrastructure from Australia.  AAVA's President is Dr Nouria Salehi 
OAM.  She is well known in the Australian community for her relentless 
dedication to supporting Afghan domestic and international issues.  Patrons 
of AAVA include Senator Lynn Allison, Journalist Pamela Bone, and Professor 
Bill Maley.

The AAVA has several key projects which include
* Tools for learning
Shipping containers of donated goods from Australia to Afghanistan, the 
goods include text books, computers and medical equipment.
* Skills for rebuilding
Working with Australian Volunteers Abroad to post volunteers to vocational 
based teaching positions.
* Media
Working with renowned author, Ahmed Rashid, George Soros' Open Society 
Foundation and and Hollywood actor Michael Douglas, to assist independent 
media endeavours in Afghanistan
* Lobbying
Working with Australian Government at the federal, state and local level to 
raise community awareness regarding the difference their support can make.

The AAVA has representatives in Australia and Afghanistan and is proudly 
supported by Wilmoth Field and Warne, Moby Capital and Paramount Design. 
Please contact Kylie Mohseni on 0412 306 615 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you 
are interested in finding out more about AAVA.

Australian Afghan Volunteer Association
HOW YOU CAN HELP

The key focus of AAVA is provision of vocational based aid - training, 
tools and infrastructure - which will assist with the rebuilding of 
Afghanistan. One of our immediate projects include shipping containers of 
donated goods from Australia to Afghanistan, the goods include text books, 
computers and medical equipment.
AAVA are looking for advice and donations which include.

Big Picture & Ongoing
* storage space for the donated goods
* assistance with collection of donated goods.our cars and backs will 
be worn out shortly
* volunteer professional logistics / shipping advice and skills..
* volunteer professional accounting skills...
* volunteer professional web site building and hosting skills
* donations of shipping services / skills or cash to fund shipping - it 
costs about $15,000 to send one container...

Just as important yet more once off / short term
* donations of text / educational books
* donations of medical equipment and supplies
* donations of vocational tools - computers, software, specialist tools
* donations of cash to ship containers - it costs about $15,000 to
send one container...

AAVA's President is Dr Nouria Salehi OAM.  She is well known in the 
Australian community for her relentless dedication to supporting Afghan 
domestic and international issues.  Patrons of AAVA include Senator Lynn 
Allison, Journalist Pamela Bone, and Professor Bill Maley. The AAVA has 
representatives in Australia and Afghanistan and is proudly supported by 
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LL:DDV: ALP Factions Forum New International Bookshop

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Comrades and Citizens,

The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and its partners in
the Wednesday Night at the New International Bookshop consortium are pleased
to present the discussion we had to have, on

THE ROLE OF FACTIONS IN THE LABOUR MOVEMENT.

Anthony Byrne MHR and Alan Griffin MHR will open the discussion.

In light of recent events in several unions, the State and local branches,
it's time to have a constructive discussion about factionalism as the
primary organising principle of power in the labour movement.

NEW INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP
(Melbourne Trades Hall)
6.00 for 6.30 p.m.
Wednesday 3 July


All welcome!

Peter Love
President
Melbourne Branch
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LL:PR: PORT PHILLIP TO BE DECLARED A 'REFUGEE WELCOME ZONE'

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PORT PHILLIP TO BE DECLARED A 'REFUGEE WELCOME ZONE'

For World Refugee Day, Thursday June 20, the City of Port Phillip will add
its voice to a number of local governments in declaring its municipality a
'refugee welcome zone'. The initiative is being promoted by the Refugee
Council of Australia.

So far, the Cities of Melbourne, Darebin, Hume, Monash, Brimbank,
Boroondara, Port Phillip, Port Adelaide-Enfield, Fremantle and Brisbane have
committed in spirit "to welcoming refugees to their community, upholding the
human rights of refugees, demonstrating compassion to refugees and enhancing
cultural and religious diversity in our community".

Port Phillip mayor, Darren Ray, said that last month the council had adopted
a policy on asylum seekers.

"There has been a long and proud history of refugee settlement in Port
Phillip, especially since World War 11. Thousands of refugees from war-torn
Europe landed at Station Pier and settled locally. This was part of the
impetus behind the recent Tampa Tribute. Kathy Laster, a Jewish St Kilda
resident whose vision and determination drove that event, was not a refugee
from World War 11 but from the Hungarian uprising of 1956.

"Kathy arrived as a young child but she knows andwe know, that we are all in
the same boat, when war or calamity strikes. In the Middle East, Jews and
Muslims are at loggerheads but here in Australia, and most especially this
community, the Jewish community has been most vociferous in speaking up for
the rights of refugees, many of whom are Muslim. They know what it is like
to be a stranger in a strange land, or in a strange sea.

"At the moment, unlike our counterparts in Moreland, Darebin and Dandenong,
the City of Port Phillip is not directly involved in settling people on
temporary protection visas. Some have joined our community thanks to amazing
efforts of the Brigidine convent in Albert Park. They provide hospitality
and practical assistance to refugees as well as advocating for their rights.
Four refugees now live in their house on Beaconsfield Parade. Other refugees
live in Office of Housing accommodation in places like Park Towers in South
Melbourne," he said.

Cr Ray said that, nevertheless, the local community had sought a public
statement that asserts that the current treatment of asylum seekers, and
particularly their mandatory detention, is unjust and inhumane, compounding
the trauma that most individuals have experienced.

"The City of Port Phillip is proud to stand side by side with asylum
seekers. We are committed to engaging with local citizens and groups,
including multicultural, interfaith, community health and support agencies,
to determine how this community can support asylum seekers. Our first step
is to reserve two places at the South Central Migrant Resource Centre for
people on temporary protection visas who are therefore ineligible for
government-funded English-language lessons," he said.

Cr Ray said that a letter sent on July 30 last year from the council's
multicultural advisory committee to the Minister for Immigration, Phillip
Ruddick, protesting about the treatment of asylum seekers, remained
unanswered.

"Maybe he's been too busy drawing up plans to exclude bits and pieces
Australia from the 'migration zone' but I know that many people would like
an answer. Like reconciliation, this issue has cut to the core of what this
nation should stand for but doesn't. Both issues are, in fact, related.

"With the exception of indigenous Australians, we are all boat people (even
if some of our forebears arrived by plane). Because our nation still has to
make peace with indigenous Australians over the illegal occupation of their
land two centuries ago, we feel our hold on this country is still fragile.
We fear, irrationally, that another group of boat people could take it all
away. If our society is to heal and grow, we need to resolve these issues
sooner rather than later," he said.

Deputy mayor, Liz Johnstone, will sign the 'Refugee Welcome Zone'
declaration at a Refugee Council of Victoria media conference at 12 noon,
Wednesday June 19, Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, the
day before World Refugee Day. Last year World Refugee Day was designated to
be June 20 by the UN General Assembly to mark the 50th anniversary of the
1951 Refugee Convention. This year the theme is women refugees.

The same night, June 19, the Refugee Council of Victoria will host an
evening of music, entertainment and performance entitled "Welcome Stranger",
at 7.30pm, also at Chapel Off Chapel. It includes a performance of refugee
stories by some of Australia's most talented actors - Secret Life of Us
stars Joel Edgerton, Deborah Mailman, and Alice Garner, John Wood (Blue
Heelers), Annie Phelan (Something in the Air), Rachel Maza (Radiance) - and
refugees living in our community including Fahim Fayyazi and Samira Mohamed.
Their performances will be followed by music and entertainment by a variety
of Melbourne musicians including

LL:DDV: Welcome Stranger concert, Prahran

[Shute, Carmel]

Welcome Stranger concert - 7.30pm until late, Wed 19/6, Chapel off Chapel,
11 Lt Chapel St, Prahran

The Refugee Council of Australia would like to invite you and a partner to
join us in marking World Refugee Day 2002

The Refugee Council of Australia is hosting an evening of music,
entertainment and performance entitled Welcome Stranger

Includes a moving performance of refugee stories by some of Australia's most
talented actors, Joel Edgerton (The Hard Word, Secret Life of Us), & Alice
Garner (Secret Life of Us), John Wood (Blue Heelers), Annie Phelan
(Something in the Air), Rachael Maza (Radiance) and refugees living in our
community including Fahim Fayyazi with Samira Mohamed. Followed by music and
entertainment by a variety of Melbourne musicians including Kavish Mazzella.
Melbourne comedian Hung Le will be our MC for the evening.

Wednesday 19th June - Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel Street
Prahran, 3181

RSVP: Friday 14th June to Ms. Jacki Dillon ph. 03 9416 0044 email:
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The Refugee Council of Australia is a peak national body representing over
120 organisations and individual members. The aim of the Refugee Council of
Australia is to promote the adoption of flexible, humane and constructive
policies toward refugees, asylum seekers and displaced persons by the
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LL:DDV: children & war in Afghanistan - Tues, 2/7

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If you're interested in attending this, give Jacki Willox on 0409 796 534.


dinner and discussion
children & war
HON. BRONWYN PIKE
PARIS ARISTOTLE
DR NOURIA SALEHI
Tuesday, 2 July 2002 @ 6.30 for 7.00pm
@ the AFGHAN GALLERY RESTAURANT 327 Brunswick St Fitzroy ph: 9417 2430
your support will help children in Afghanistan
GREAT AFGHAN FOOD.BYO.$45 ($35 conc) PER PERSON
ph: 9328 4637 fax: 9326 8747 or by return email
 >From the Gun to the Pen
After 23 years of war in Afghanistan, many young Afghans have known only a
playground of war and weapons, not toys.
With little or severely disrupted schooling and education and training
opportunities, Afghanistan's youth is unprepared and
insufficiently skilled to provide the kind of massive rebuilding that is
required. Significant numbers of women have lost
fathers and husbands as part of the ongoing war and have seen their
children lost to the war zones. Many women have
become heads of family households left without male breadwinners. Many
children became the breadwinners for their
families by joining the war when no other opportunity existed. Some as
young as 10 years old have been at war and
have had no education, no basic literacy and numeracy skills and no
experience of peace. Our aim is to build a program
for the Vocational Education and Training of Afghan youth to assist in
their personal and community transition from war to peace.




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LL:REM: demonstrate against Peter Reith conference

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Please forward this as widely as you can. It's a pretty amazing 
conference, featuring Reith, Abbott, Andrew Bolt and a host of other 
uglies. Check out the website below.
www.hrnicholls.com.au 
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Liberal Party Ex-Defence Minister Peter Reith is coming to Melbourne to
collect an award for services rendered, by the HR Nicholls Society, a
Liberal Party right-wing thinktank.

VICTORIAN TRADES HALL COUNCIL and REFUGEE ACTION COLLECTIVE

ask you to DEMONSTRATE AT THE CEREMONY

6PM FRIDAY 22 MARCH

HR Nicholls Society conference
The Holiday Inn,
Cnr Park Street and St Kilda Road,
Melbourne


5 REASONS TO PROTEST - Some crimes of Peter Reith

1. Lying to the Australian people about refugees throwing children overboard
2. Bashing the Maritime Union and construction workers
3. Attacks on workers rights - Workplace Relations Act
4. Phonecard rort
5. Profiting from government inside information

Speakers include:
Leigh Hubbard, Secretary, Trades Hall Council

For further info:
Refugee Action Collective
9659 3505 or 0402 413 914
www.rac-vic.   org 

Bring noise-makers, banners, placards

Below is the program for the HR Nicholls Society conference, a right 
wing think-tank. Peter Reith will be receiving the Charles Copeman medal 
from John 'Flat Tax' Stone. Brian Welch from the Master Builders 
Association is speaking on the Royal Commission witch hunt into the 
building industry. Andrew Bolt - propagandist in chief from the Herald 
Sun - is holding forth on (of all things) outworkers.

See the website   www.hrnicholls.com.au

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The Changing Paradigm:
Freedom, Jobs, Prosperity
Friday 22 March & Saturday 23 March 2002
The Holiday Inn,
Cnr Park Street and St Kilda Road,
Melbourne
Tel: (03) 9209 9888
Fax: (03) 9690 1603

Programme

Friday, 22 March
7.00 pm for Dinner 7.30 pm

Guest of Honour and recipient of the Charles Copeman Medal for 2002:
The Hon. Peter Reith

Mr John Stone, former Secretary to the Treasury, and founding President
of the H R Nicholls Society, will make the presentation.

Saturday, 23 March
9.00 am
Session A
Chairman: Bob Day
I. 'Breathing Life into the New Paradigm'
Ray Evans
II. 'Reflections on the Cole Royal Commission'
Brian Welch
Exec. Director of the MBA (Vic)
Discussant: Stuart Wood
'After the Commission'

10.30 am Morning Tea

11.00 am
Session B
Chairman: Steve Knott
I. 'Minimum Wages and Other Barriers to Employment: or why Card and Krueger
were wrong'
Des Moore and Geoff Hogbin
II. 'The O'Connor Abattoirs Story' (to be confirmed): Kevin O'Connor

12.30 pm Lunch

1.30 pm
Session C
Chairman: Stuart Wood
I. 'Labour Market Reform post-10 Nov 2001'
The Hon. Tony Abbott
II. 'The Victorian Industrial Manslaughter Bill'
Ken Phillips

3.20 pm Afternoon Tea

3.40 pm
Session D
Chairman: John Paterson
I. 'What can be done when the Police decline to enforce the law' (to be
confirmed)
Frank Parry
II. 'Trade Unions and Civil Society'
The Hon. Gary Johns

5.10 pm
Session E
Chairman: Des Moore
'Facing the next Victorian election'
Bill Forwood, MLC

6.30 pm for Dinner 7.00 pm
Guest of Honour: Andrew Bolt
'Reflections on the Outworkers'




Jeff Sparrow
Coordinator
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Box 18
Trades Hall
54 Victoria St
Carlton Sth 3053
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LL:DD: vulgar press news - Radical Melbourne Talk

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Melbourne
Jill and Jeff Sparrow will talk about their book

radical melbourne
at Readings Bookshop in Lygon St Carlton
20 February 2002 6.30 pm

Stuart Macintyre will introduce the authors

http://www.vulgar.com.au/vulgarpress.html#sparrow



Sydney
Launch of Merv Lilley's The Channels


nb two events



1. 
Gleebooks 22 February 6.30 pm
launched by Melissa Hardie



2. 
Varuna 23 February 2.00 pm
launched by Bill Maidment



all welcome, refreshments provided and Merv in attendance at both launches

http://www.vulgar.com.au/vulgarpress.html#lilley



Adelaide
launch of Geoff Goodfellow's Poems for a Dead Father


to be launched by Adelaide Magistrate David Gurry
3.45 pm Thurs 7 March
Adelaide Writers' Festival
East Tent, Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens

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LL:AA: Please protest at arrest of journalist at Woomera

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The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is protesting at the arrest of 
an ABC journalist and restriction of media coverage at the Woomera 
Detention Centre. ABC Radio journalist, Natalie Larkins, was arrested on 
Saturday, January 26, for failing to leave Commonwealth land outside the 
Centre after media covering the hunger strike were forced behind a 
perimeter fence 800m away.

As a first step we have written to Prime Minister Howard, Federal 
Immigration Minister, Philip Ruddock, and Attorney General, Daryl 
Williams highlighting that this is the first time in decades trespass 
has been used as a means to restrict freedom of the media.

"It's frankly unbelievable that in this century the government would be 
resorting to these sorts of laws to prevent public reporting and debate 
on such an important issue," said Alliance Federal Secretary, 
Christopher Warren. "The government is clearly getting in the way of the 
public knowing what's going on. This sort of legal trickery is 
unprecedented."

The Alliance has raised the issue with the International Federation of 
Journalists, the world's peak journalism organisation with around 
450,000 members in more than 100 countries, who have written to the 
government and raised the issue with the major press freedom 
organisations including Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF).

The media contingent had been reporting from the detention centre for 
over a week in a designated media area outside the front gate of the 
compound, which allowed them an uninterrupted view of the centre. On 
Saturday evening, Australian Protective Services (APS) staff forced the 
journalists behind a perimeter fence a further 200m away from the compound.

The Alliance urges you to contact the PM, Attorney General and the 
Minister for Immigration to register your disapproval of this 
unprecedented action taken against the media and this serious attack on 
the freedom of the media in Australia, urging them to drop the charges 
against Ms Larkins and reverse these restrictions against the media.

The Hon. J.W. Howard PM
Email the PM at:
http://www.pm.gov.au/your_feedback/feedback.htm
Level 9, Charterbridge House
56-70 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: (02) 9251 5711
Fax: (02) 9251 5454

The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP
No email address available publicly
Level 3, 20 George Street
Hornsby NSW 2077
Tel: (02) 9482 7111
Fax: (02) 9482 7018

Darryl Williams MP
Email the Attorney-General at:
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Andrea Lane
Booragoon WA 6154
Tel: (08) 9316 3633
Fax: (08) 9364 9971

For more information visit Alliance Online, the website of the Media,
Entertainment & Arts Alliance: for the people who inform and entertain 
Australia at http://www.alliance.org.au.

The Alliance has issued this bulletin as a service to its members. If 
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LL:DDV: radical melbourne

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"Radical Melbourne" Walking Tour
Saturday 23 February, 3pm to 5pm.

To celebrate the second printing of Jeff and Jill Sparrow's "Radical 
Melbourne", come on an expedition through the haunts of the socialists, 
anarchists, spiritualists and free-thinkers of the first century of 
Melbourne radicalism. Meet at the John Curtin (named, in the grand 
tradition of the Harold Holt Swimming Pool, after an alcoholic PM) and 
join all sorts of special guests and celebs wending their way through 
the less salubrious parts of the city. Bookings through the New 
International Bookshop on 9662 3744. $10/$4 concession.

more info see
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LL:DDV: Community Alliance of Port Phillip Quiz Night

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Dear Friend(s)

I am organising a couple of tables for this quiz night to raise $$$ for 
the forthcoming Community Alliance of Port Phillip election campaign. 
Peter Love & I are compering. Questions by Ken Norling & myself. Would 
you like to come on one of my tables &/or organise a table yourself? 
Details below. Apologies if you get this twice.

Happy New Year

Carmel Shute
9209 6163



COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF PORT PHILLIP
2nd Quiz Night
7.30 pm Saturday 2 February 2001 (Eyes down 8 pm sharp)
Australian Education Union, 120 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne
Cost: $16/$8 (conc)
Fab prizes! Fab questions! Fab competitions!
Eat beforehand and/or bring snacks. Grog on sale.
Book in tables of up to 8. Bookings essential.
Contact Susanne Provis: 9534 2445 (h) or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All proceeds to CAPP's Port Phillip Council election campaign.


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LL:DDV: Rock vs Racism - for Detained Refugees

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FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT - ROCK AGAINST RACISM: 1pm to 6pm, Saturday, November
24 - outside Maribyrnong Detention Centre, 53 Hampstead Rd, Maribyrnong
(tram 82 from Footscray Station)

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW (OR DON'T KNOW)
Steve Payne

Featuring: THE DAVE GRANEY SHOW; SNOUT; THE BROWN HORNET;
MACH PELICAN; MOONDRIVEN
IF POSSIBLE PLEASE BRING:
- donations to help cover our costs
- seats/ picnic blankets/ pillows
- sun cream & hats
- gift or xmas presents for the refugees (see above)
- lots & lots & lots of friends

RAC (WEST) invites people planning to come to the Rock Against Racism on
Nov  24 to bring gifts or Christmas presents for detainees and asylum
seekers in our community. The gifts will be collected at the event & given
to the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre to distribute amongst people in
detention and those on temporary visas living throughout melbourne... any
good quality toys, clothes, even movie vouchers etc etc are welcome, but
please do not wrap them.

There will also be an opportunity to write messages to the detainees
during the rock against racism.

Finally although the concert is "free", we are requesting that people
bring some money to donate, even if only a few coins. This is necessary
because of costs incurred by the sound system, stage & council requirements.

Don't worry, if you've got no money or gifts we still hope for your company
on what looks like being a fantastic day.

Posters & leaflets are available from New International bkshop in Trades
Hall, crn of Lygon & Elizabeth Sts, or the Resistance Bookshop at Level 5,
407 Swanston st, Melbourne, opposite RMIT).

PLEASE HELP TO BUILD IT! Grab posters & leaflets or forward this
email.

Proudly presented by Refugee Action Collective (West): ph 9689 9867


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LL:DDV: Fundraiser for Afghan refugees, 3 pm, Sun 25/11

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Fundraiser for Afghan refugees, 3 pm, Sun 25/11, Preston Town Hall

Sian Prior (ex-Trade Union Choir Director, ABC presenter) is organising this
fundraiser for Afghan refugees.  Should be a great concert. Could you please
circulate the info below to people you reckon will be interested.

Thanks,
Carmel

The Boite Presents: SING FOR SURVIVAL> CONCERT AND PARTY

TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE AFGHANISTAN REFUGEE CRISIS

at Preston Town Hall, cnr High St and Gower St Preston

at 3 pm on Sunday the 25th of November

Featuring fabulous musicians:  Kavisha Mazzella, Diana Clark and Doug de
Vries, Borboleta, Crying in Public Places, Carl Pannuzzo, Petrunka,  Phil
Bywater and The Great Unwashed, Totally Gourdgeous, Tumbarumba

Tickets: $15 full, $10 conc

Drinks and Snacks available

Join us for what promises to be a wonderful event of music and dance,
and support aid going to millions of people in danger of starvation as
a result of the crisis.

Group Bookings: 9386 8456. All proceeds will go to Oxfam Community Aid
Abroad's  Afghan Refugee Crisis Appeal

This is a community initiative. For more information on Oxfam's work in
response to the crisis, go to:
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LL:ART: Mick Dodson on elections, racism & xenophobia

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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective/stories/s404771.htm

On Wednesday 31/10/01

Mick Dodson

Good evening

There is a not so silent aspect to this Federal election campaign that
causes me deep concern. Both major political parties, led by Mr Howard's
Coalition, are exploiting fear and ignorance. There seems to be a deliberate
appeal to the worst of the prejudices, bigotry and ignorance of some. This
is the politics of difference and intolerance. The contest of ideas is
nowhere to be seen.

It is a campaign that is elusive, almost sneeky on the question of race.
Xenophobic fear of the other is being invoked in the most despicable way as
a rallying call to security of national borders and nationalism itself.

Asylum seekers in boats have replaced indigenous Australians as the
scapegoats for this fear and hate. Prejudice takes over from reason;
humanity gives way to hysteria.

Our poorest Pacific neighbours are called upon to return or accept favours
in a makeshift solution to the desperation of the desperate. Compassion and
humanity take a back seat, for we are told we have already been far too
generous and enough is enough. Small Pacific nations now need that money and
more to act as surrogates for our humanity - our compassion - our concern.

We pass laws that alter our borders. We send in the navy and the SAS, we
spend more money, we talk tough, we lambast the people smugglers, we
heighten the fears, but still the boats with their desperate human cargo
come and Megawati refuses to answer John's calls.

One Nation must scarcely believe their luck.

It is not just the call to xenophobic and racist sentiment that deeply
concerns me about John Howard's campaign (particularly) and the deep
inhumanity it represents, but it is no solution. It will have a cost to us
as a nation. This will be a heavy cost, not only in terms of dollars but
also in how people elsewhere perceive us. It has already done us damage and
will continue to do so.

What truly bewilders me is when and why did the Australian Labor Party turn.
John Howard's attitude can be explained; he has the track record. We heard
his views on Asian immigration loud and clear in the 1980s. We Indigenous
Australians live with his racially discriminatory Native Title law. We are
witnesses to his incapacity to say sorry to the stolen generations. We well
know his wishy washy commitment to Reconciliation. But what of Kim Beazley
and Labor? When it comes to race issues in this campaign forgive me if I
cannot spot the difference. Also please forgive me if I think I have no
choice in the major parties. It presents a difficult decision for me when it
comes to marking my ballot paper. It is not only GST being rolled back here,
its solid national leadership and vision, multiculturalism and
reconciliation as well.

Perhaps I should have cause for relief because the campaign is not attacking
indigenous Australians for a change - but attacking those scary 'others'.
So, where I ask, does my vote seek asylum?

And what of after the election? Can the damage be undone? Will the winner
account to us the electors?

Regardless of whoever wins the election there are many things that will stay
the same. We will still have the GST. The education and health problems will
not have magically vanished. Indigenous Australians will still be massively
over-represented in our prisons and our kids will still be dying at three to
six times the national rate. The bombs will still be raining down on
Afghanistan and terrified people on leaky boats will still be arriving.

I hope your vote is a happy one! Thank you.


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LL:AA: Volunteers for how-to-vote cards needed - for Goldstein

[Shute, Carmel]

Dear Friend

I am sending this to you on behalf of Louise Connor & Michael Evans.

Cheers
Carmel Shute

Volunteers to hand out how-to-vote cards on Nov 10 needed!

Kristin Stegley is an independent candidate standing on a Support for
Public Education platform in the Federal seat of Goldstein, against the
sitting Liberal member, Education Minister David Kemp. Details of Kristin's
campaign and policies can be found at www.kristinstegley.org

We have undertaken to staff a polling booth for the day on Nov 10, and
urgently need volunteers prepared to give a couple of hours' assistance.
Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided!

Details are:
Polling booth:  Caulfield South Primary School, Bundeera Rd Caulfield
South, Melways Ref 68 C6

Contact Louise Connor on 9527 6770 or 0438 241 211, Michael Evans 0418 241
664

Any and all times from 8am to 6pm available - 2 hour slots.

Thanks

Louise Connor and Michael Evans


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LL:DDV: Election Night at New International Bookshop

[Shute, Carmel]

6.00 pm, Saturday 10 November, at the bookshop
Election Night Party
Dance on the grave of the Howard government. Watch the
result unfold on our big-screen TV, and listen to the
thoughts of our commentary panel (Sean Dooley, V. J.
Baxter and Trades Hall's Jacob Grech). And, if the
'prime minuscule' (to quote Rod Quantock) wins again,
we'll have a well-stocked bar in which sorrows can be
drowned.
Free entry. Barbecue and other food.

from Jacob Grech


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