Graham Matthews, Melbourne
Staff cuts and lengthening queues were the subject of a street protest organised by the Wills branch of the Socialist Alliance at the Moreland Centrelink office on July 9.
Forty people participated in the protest,
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Kathy Newnam
Agreements signed by defence minister Robert Hill at the annual Australia-US ministerial consultations in Washington on July 7 greatly strengthened Australian government support for the US war machine.
The agreements include plans to
The Melbourne North-East Activist Centre (formerly the Resistance Centre) on High Street, Northcote, is now closed, due to financial constraints.
The Socialist Alliance will continue to meet at the Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street, Northcote.
Does the fear of refugees flooding Australia keep you awake at night? Do you agree that ASIO needs more powers to track down, detain and interrogate "illegal" and "suspicious" people, especially Muslims?
If your answer is "Yes", then PM John Howard
Tariq Ali
Before the war, they said Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" that threatened the West. Those of us who opposed the war said this was a lie. US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian PM John Howard
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CFMEU retains right of entry
PERTH - Up to 300 building workers converged on the Holiday Inn Burswood construction site on June 28, following the sacking of six construction workers.
The sacked workers, all members of the
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
With the plethora of reality TV, and thinly disguised corporate marketing, documentaries are bringing people back to cinemas. As the Melbourne Age's Larissa Dubecki wrote on May 11: "Reality TV's malaise might now be judged a
Chris Slee, Melbourne
Two Iraqis living in Australia, both of whom have recently returned from visits to their homeland, addressed 50 people at a forum organised by the International Socialist Organisation, an affiliate of the Socialist Alliance,
Kamala Emanuel, Hobart
Workers at Tasmania's two casinos will stop work on July 14 in Launceston and on July 15 in Hobart, to consider their response to Federal Hotels' latest pay offer. This follows a resumption of negotiations with the Liquor,
North America and Western Europe (12% of the world's population) account for 60% of household consumption globally.
The one-third of humanity who live in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa account for 3.2% of household consumption.
Almost 3
Kamala has been a socialist activist for 10 years. She was involved in the campaigns for a free East Timor, for decriminalisation of abortion, for the protection of old-growth forests and against nuclear testing in the Pacific. She has helped
Dirty tricks on Grocon site
On June 29, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) steward Nazza Ottobre was moving the union office in Grocon's Eureka Towers construction site from the basement to the next level when he found a
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