BY DANI BARLEY
SYDNEY — Calling for an end to an alleged "significant disparity between public opinion and judicial sentencing conduct", NSW Premier Bob Carr has put forward new legislation that would enforce a maximum life sentence for gang
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SYDNEY — Supporters of the Penrith Women's Health Centre and the Warehouse handed out leaflets around the Penrith shops, in Sydney's far-west, on August 31. The action was part of a state-wide day of action against sexual violence. A tree planting
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Benchmark targets for Tasmania Together were released on September 3. Tasmania Together is the state Labor government's consultation program designed to draw up "goals" and "visions" for the state by 2020.
There are
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SYDNEY — Students from all over the dispersed Penrith campus of the University of Western Sydney gathered on September 6 to discuss building the anti-corporate movement.
Participants left the meeting determined
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — A lively protest of about 30 anti-sweatshop activists targeted the headquarters of women's clothing retailer Sussan on September 5, parking a huge mobile billboard outside the building featuring a woman throwing
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Which country defeated the largest ever invasion force sent by Britain in its colonial heyday? Which country
BY SEAN HEALY
Steel fences which barricade off city blocks, police baton charges, the use of tear gas and even live ammunition against protesters may be the most obvious signs of the authorities' attempts to repress, or at least contain, the rising
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — The Australian Industrial Relations Commission has ruled that Yallourn Energy's draft enterprise agreement, known as EB2000, should be adopted as the award governing workers' pay and conditions, despite its rejection in
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The SS St Louis left Hamburg, Germany in May 1939 with 937 Jewish refugees aboard. They had paid $150 each for permission to land in Cuba, a huge sum of money at that time. Most were on a waiting list for entry into the United
BY JON LAND
Fretilin, the party which declared East Timor independent in 1975 and which was the largest single force in the long fight against occupation, has won 57% of the vote in the country's first elections since the end of Indonesian rule —
BY JANA DK
DILI — In its first major mobilisation since the beginning of East Timor's election campaign, on August 25 some 5000 Timorese Socialist Party members and supporters gathered at Dili's Independence Field for one of the most energetic,
BY DANIEL KELLY
SYDNEY — Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) workers employed on the waterfront here held a stop work meeting on September 6 over concerns about workplace safety and government plans to replace them with casuals.
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