Unions
Most unions have criticised the budget for attacking public health and education. Some have also condemned the promotion of individual agreements on campuses and anti-union funding.
Victorian Trades Hall secretary Leigh Hubbard blasted the
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BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — A report issued on May 9 by the conservative Brussels-based International Crisis Group, headed by former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans, declared: "The Indonesian military is not using the phrase 'shock and awe',
On June 3, the Sharia Court of Appeal of Katsina State in Nigeria will hear an appeal from Amina Lawal, who is fighting for her life after being convicted of adultery last August by an upper area court in Katsina because she gave birth to a child
BY ELISABETH KEAN
On May 9, the Israeli military raided the office of the International Solidarity Movement in Beit Sahour, Palestine. During the raid, two ISM volunteers and a visitor from the Human Rights Watch organisation were detained.
ISM
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — With the likelihood of all-out war erupting in Aceh, solidarity campaigners have launched an emergency campaign directed at getting the Australian government to end military ties with Indonesia and pressure Jakarta to get
BY AARON BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Despite Washington's military victory in Iraq, residents of Sydney's south-western suburbs are determined to maintain the anti-war organisations established in the area earlier this year and build opposition to the US
Greed-based policy
The federal budget announced plans to subject disability pensioners, as a group, to an additional 61,000 eligibility reviews per year and the government still wants to change eligibility rules to force many onto the lower-paying
A surprise tax cut in this year's federal budget, released on May 13, saw the corporate media happily seize on one of the least significant elements of the Howard government's eighth budget. The question the media should have been
BY DOUG LORIMER
In a new act of provocation aimed at creating a confrontation with Cuba, the US government on May 12 ordered seven diplomats at Cuba's United Nations mission to leave the US within 48 hours. The next day, the US State Department
BY DERMOTT RYDER
Peter Costello, Liberal leadership hopeful and feral federal treasurer, in his budget has perpetrated the most savage attacks on the living conditions, medical care and welfare of workers, unemployed, disabled, the sick and elderly
BY EVA CHENG
For more than five decades, Washington has justified its strong military presence in north-east Asia in the name of countering "communism". Even though pro-capitalist governments now rule Russia and China, Washington has shown no
Expert opinion I
"If you had hired actors you could not have gotten better coverage" — Kenneth Bacon, a former Pentagon spokesperson, commenting on the corporate media's coverage of the US invasion of Iraq.
Expert opinion II
"Everyone knows
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