This event is on the Leftlink Calendar - http://www.leftlink.net/
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
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.
...
Bob Phelps
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
-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
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
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
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
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':
`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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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,
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
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:
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
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:
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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 http://www.hrnicholls.com.au/
--
Liberal Party Ex-Defence Minister Peter Reith is
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
http://www.vulgar.com.au/vulgarpress.html#sparrow
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?
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,
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
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,
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
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
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