Migrant women rally
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — "We've learned to speak. We've learned to stand and walk. Don't cut off our legs." These words adorned placards held by 100 women who rallied outside Parliament House on June 17 to oppose cuts to
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By Marina Cameron
On May 28, the chair of the government's review of higher education, Roderick West, stated publicly that the Liberals' cuts to funding had affected higher education quality through staff cuts, less student-staff contact hours,
By Marina Cameron
The government announced on June 18 that from July next year, a new common youth allowance will replace unemployment benefits for young people aged 18-20, Austudy and youth training, sickness and family allowances. The
By Sarah Peart
"Dangerous hoons" was how One Nation executive director David Ettridge described the socialist youth organisation Resistance in the week before a 2000-strong demonstration outside One Nation's offices in Manly. "Let's wait until
James Vassilopoulos
"If you do not fight for anything, you lose the whole lot" was the key lesson for Nigel Gould, secretary-treasurer of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union at Weipa, after leading the fight against the
Adams ban challenged
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — Despite the growing support for Sinn Féin in northern Ireland, as registered in recent British elections, Sinn Féin leader and recently elected MP Gerry Adams is not allowed into
Anti-racism and trade unions
As one of the speakers at the protest rally outside Hanson's One Nation meeting in Adelaide on June 12, I took up the theme of trade unions campaigning against racism. I referred to the past history of activism in
Protesters destroy government office in East Java
On Friday, June 13, thousands of people supporting the PPP [United Development Party] in Jember, East Java, held a protest action over the elections. This action eventually developed into mass
Saving Giblett forest — again
By Angela Luvera and Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Giblett forest, one of the areas saved from logging by WA's 1994 forest blockade, has been under threat again since earlier this year, when the WA government's
Government gags EDOs
By Carl Gosper
In a major attack on the enforcement of environmental law, the Howard government has told Environmental Defender's Offices (EDOs) that they can no longer take legal action against state or federal
While our great parliamentary leader visits the cricket at Lords and enjoys tea and scones with the queen, those at Â鶹ӳ» are hard at work, going about producing a quality independent weekly newspaper.
But it takes more than hard work and
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — State education in Queensland has traditionally been one of the lowest funded in Australia. With the election of the Goss Labor government in 1989, some of this disparity was addressed. But Labor veered away from its
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