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
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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
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
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
ADELAIDE — For the second month in a row, more than 30 young people picketed ANZ House in Grenfell street on June 3. Protesters condemned ANZ for profiting from the war in Iraq through its involvement in the Iraq Trade Bank.
The protest evolved
The following statement was adopted by the National Union Fightback Conference in Melbourne on June 11.
With control of the Senate on July 1, the Howard government will begin an all-out attack on the rights of working people. The Coalition's plan
Duncan Meerding
Musician Bob Geldof has announced a sequel concert to the charity concert of 1985, Live Aid. The concert, named Live 8, will be demanding the G8, the world's eight most powerful nations, end Third World debt.
Unlike Live Aid, Live
In recent years, cheap imported chicken from the US and Europe — usually fatty chicken parts in unlabelled packages — has flooded Ghana's market, leading to a collapse in demand for local poultry. In 2004, an estimated 40,000 tonnes of chicken
BRISBANE — On June 3-5, 30 people attended the "Rage against the regime" socialist activist camp at the Maranatha camp site in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Organised by the Brisbane branch of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, the camp
SYDNEY — On the anniversary of the human rights commissioner's deadline for the release of all children from immigration detention centres, ChilOut organised a rally in Martin Place to highlight the fact that there are still 68 children in
Stuart Munckton
"When the Argentine economy collapsed in December 2001, doomsday predictions abounded. Unless it adopted orthodox economic policies and quickly cut a deal with its foreign creditors, hyperinflation would surely follow, the peso
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