Now We The People TASMANIA group online and active!

Visit www.nowwethepeople.org/tasmania.html for a fantastic selection of articles, letters, reviews and campaigns.

Speeches from the 2005 conference now on line

If you were unable to make it to Melbourne for the conference this year, or couldn't get to all the workshops you wanted, click through to the conference program and then click on the title of the speakers name. The workshop discussion starters are also available.

A booklet of the conference proceedings will be produced early next year.

Read the speeches from the July 29 public meeting - 'Corpocracy vs the Global Commons'

Phyllis Bennis, Margo Kingston, Rey Casambre and Sharan Burrow take aim at the governments around the world for their capitulation to corporate interests and attacks on human rights and undermining of democracy. They discuss what needs to be done to challenge these trends.

Conference 2005

Advance Australia Fair
Building Sustainability, Justice and Peace

30-31 July 2005, Melbourne Trades Hall, Carlton South, Melbourne

A HUGE SUCCESS!

"We, participants of the ‘Advance Australia Fair - Building sustainability, justice and peace’ conference, 2005, joined together to promote democratic alternatives to unfettered free trade and free market policies which increasingly limit the capacity of democratic governments and community organisations to achieve social justice, equity, peace, and ecological sustainability."

Read the CONFERENCE STATEMENT - modified by the conference participants on the Saturday 30th and adopted by acclamation on Sunday the 31st at the closing plenary.

330 people from the social justice, environmental, labour and human rights movements joined together to discuss a broad program for progressive social change in Australia. As well as Victoria, converence participants came from South Australia, NSW, Tasmania, Queensland, and the Northern Territory. The fantastic international speakers came from the USA, the Philippines, and New Zealand.

People had a very postitive experience and were reinvigorated to keep working, particularly in the face of the current Howard government. We would like to know what you thought of the conference, if you haven't already, fill in the CONFERENCE FEEDBACK FORM and send it back to us.

Keep watching the CONFERENCE PROGRAM Over the next few weeks, the speeches and outcomes from the plenary and workshop sessions will be uploaded onto this page.