American alliance
All of Australia's defence personnel serving overseas should be withdrawn immediately
The revelation by defence minister Senator Hill that our troops in Afghanistan killed three hundred of the enemy without loss and without
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Tens of thousands rallied in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on May 11 to
call for the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from the Occupied Territories.
Police estimated the crowd at about 60,000, while organisers — Peace
Now — put the figure at
BY ALISON DELLIT
"Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The rich stay healthy, the sick stay poor" — U2's 1988 song God Part II contains a pretty good summary of the Howard government's seventh budget, delivered on May 14.
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — Hundreds of people have attended refugee solidarity activities here in recent weeks. This bodes well for a major rally against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers on June 22.
On May 2, 250 people attended a
And ain't i a woman?: Fleeing domestic violence
Naima Khawar and her three children came to Australia from Pakistan on visitors' visas in June 1997. She applied for refugee status in September, because she had suffered 11 years of domestic
BY BRETT MULLER
On May 1, NSW planning minister Andrew Refshauge approved Australian
Silicon Ltd's proposed development of a charcoal factory at Mogo, on the
NSW south coast. The department received more than 1530 submissions from
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BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — Showing breathtaking disregard for the wishes of his Victorian members, national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Doug Cameron convened a telephone hook-up of AMWU national council members on May
BY HELEN SLANEY
MELBOURNE — Six hundred outraged students attended a student general meeting at Melbourne University on May 15, protesting against the recent attacks on campus political activism by the Melbourne University Students' Union
BY AMY McDONELL
On May 13, the day before the federal government's budget was delivered,
students mobilised around the country to demand more funds for education
and social services. The national day of action was called by the National
BY RATHEESH KALIYADAN
KERALA — Plachimada has never been singled out as a village that exemplifies the "Kerala model of development". It is a tribal area that is highly crowded with destitute people. Families own tiny plots of land. The only jobs
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The Resource, Planning and Development Commission hearing into the proposed Southwood woodchip mill and wood-fired power station ended on May 14 — two weeks after what was meant to be a three-day hearing began.
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — "The ALP — whose party is it?" was one of the questions addressed in a lively debate between trade union and other left activists at a Socialist Alliance-sponsored seminar held at Parramatta Town Hall on May 11.
The
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