The February 12 announcement by Prime Minister John Howard that a Coalition party room meeting had approved a reduction in federal parliamentarians' superannuation to 9% (from 69.1%) would have gladdened most hearts.
Howard was pleased because he
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Brianna Pike & Norman Brewer, Sydney
Aboriginal residents of the Redfern Block and anti-racist activists have rallied to defend the block, and oppose police brutality.
On February 16, an impromptu public speak-out was held on the block. About 200
Peter Robson
On December 4, the Senate passed federal education minister Brendan Nelson's legislative package of "reforms" to higher education. The Nelson legislation is the most regressive changes to the education system since the abolition of
Iraq
The United States has continued to remind the world that it will be handing over power to the Iraqis after June 30, 2004. The US Coalition Provisional Authority will hand over power to some form of Iraqi government from this date. What form
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
Journalist and film-maker John Pilger and former intelligence official Andrew Wilkie addressed a packed crowd of 1000 at a public meeting organised by the Stop the War Coalition on February 15.
Addressing the impact of the
MELBOURNE — Many unions have passed motions in support of the March 20 international protest against the occupation of Iraq.
They include: the Geelong Trades and Labour Council; the Victorian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
"A journalist recently asked me whether the average Australian cared any more about the unravelling case for war", Andrew Wilkie told a Stop the War Coalition public meeting on February 15. "It's true that some have taken PM
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For anybody growing up in an affluent small town or suburbia during the 1950s, Far from Heaven will
The electoral fortunes of the ALP seem to have turned around since its national conference.
Recent polls have the two major parties level, and the Liberals behind on a two-party preferred basis.
The intelligence justifying the Iraq war is being
Sue Bull, Melbourne
Federal education minister Brendan Nelson thinks it's not a problem that his government has increased public funding of wealthy private schools like Haileybury College, Ivanhoe Grammar and Presbyterian Ladies College, by up to
Kylie Moon & Stuart Munckton, Sydney
On February 14, Thomas "TJ" Hickey, a 17-year-old Indigenous man, was flung from his bike and impaled on a metal fence in the inner-city suburb of Waterloo. He died early the next morning in hospital. Redfern
Max Lane
With only six weeks until the general election, there still seems to be very little popular interest in it. Even professional politicians, who are very interested, are focused on possible cross-party alliances, rather than competitive
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