James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne
A meeting of 1700 union delegates on September 7 voted unanimously for a "mass mobilisation of Victorian workers" on the national community day of protest on November 15. The meeting was organised by the Victorian
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Ray Fulcher
PM John Howard announced on September 8 an "unusual but necessary" increase in the state's repressive armament, supposedly to fight the "war on terror".
Taking his cue from British PM Tony Blair following the terrorist bombings in
Kiraz Janicke, Caracas
In recent months, the introduction of a new higher education law in Venezuela has sparked a number of demonstrations against President Hugo Chavez's government by rectors and students from the national autonomous
Lisa Macdonald, Sydney
Both Labor and Liberal are going into the September 17 NSW by-elections in Maroubra, Macquarie Fields and Marrickville with the lowest public credibility for many years.
In Marrickville, the Liberals are not even standing,
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A strange North American silence seems to have
Dean Parker, Auckland
According to a Herald-DigiPoll poll, released on September 9, the incumbent Labour government of Prime Minister Helen Clark and the opposition National Party are running neck and neck in the lead-up to the September 17 New
Call to protest Rice-Rumsfeld visit
Emma Murphy, Adelaide
The Rice/Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) has begun organising around the possibility of the inaugural meeting of the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate being
Helen Masterman-Smith, Adelaide
A large crowd gathered at the Adelaide Town Hall on September 2 to hear speakers on the impact on women of the Howard government's planned welfare and workplace changes.
Elspeth McInnes of the National Council of
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