Dick Nichols
Federal government submissions to the last three safety net cases before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) have cited surveys here and overseas that typically claim that every 10% increase in the legal minimum wage
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On June 16, Bougainville's first autonomous government was sworn in at a ceremony watched by its new president, Joseph Kabui, and Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Somare. A 40-member parliament for the island province was elected on May 27, a
DARWIN — Letty Scott has reacted angrily to the Northern Territory Supreme Court's dismissal of the case against the NT government and three prison officers for the murder of her husband, Douglas Scott, in Berrimah prison on July 5, 1985.
While
Raul Bassi
The Australian people closely followed the situation of Douglas Wood, the hostage in Iraq who has just been freed. His situation was aggravated by the totally wrong policies of the Australian government.
This government went to war
BRISBANE — On June 8, Kimberley College organised a refugee-rights focussed "Sophia's Day".
Sophia's family fled Chile because her father, a trade union activist, faced repression by the authorities. Whilst waiting for their application to be
SYDNEY — On May 29, Redfern parish priest and Neocatechumenal Way sect member Dennis Sudla threw a cross painted in the Aboriginal colours onto the floor while saying mass, and smashed a table on which it had been standing. Later, three
On June 14, the US Senate finally apologised for its failure to pass a federal anti-lynching law. Between 1882 and 1968, 4700 people, almost all of them black, were lynched in the United States. Their offences ranged from murder to looking
Sam Wainwright
If anything summed up the mood of defiance at the National Union Fightback Conference at Trades Hall in Melbourne on June 11, it was the hero's welcome accorded to former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian
There has been a disturbing new development affecting women's access to abortion services in NSW and possibly other states. On June 14, a number of NSW abortion providers decided to no longer bulk-bill their clients.
For women with health-care
If you were looking for a vivid description of our world at the beginning of the 21st century, you couldn't do much better than the following: "On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces, which no epoch of the
Sarah Stephen
Sydney-based Chinese diplomat Chen Yonglin, who said he was assigned by his superiors to "monitor and persecute the democracy activists and Falun Gong practitioners in Australia", sought political asylum on May 26.
Chen has now
Sarah Stephen
A Brisbane Supreme Court jury convicted 38-year-old Iraqi Khaleed Shnayf Daoed on June 8 on a charge of assisting people smuggler Abu Quassey in an attempt in October 2001 to bring asylum seekers to Australia on the boat later known
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