BY DAVE BELL
For two years the establishment media has carried the odd snippet about the NSW Labor Council's plans to lease Currawong, the trade union movement's beachfront holiday retreat on Pittwater, north of Sydney. Over the years Currawong,
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BY CAM PARKER
SYDNEY — Australian Broadcasting Corporation staff voted no confidence in ABC managing director Jonathan Shier at stop-work meetings across Australia held on November 29. The meetings followed revelations in the Senate Estimates
BY ADAM HANIEH
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — As Florida recounts distracted the international media, Israeli tanks and helicopters continued to bombard towns and villages throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Following the bombing of a settler bus, Israel
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — Inflation figures for the September quarter were recently announced. Included in the figures is the initial impact of the goods and services tax (GST), which the Australian Bureau of Statistics describes as having a
Chockers already
“There is no room in the ALP for people who break the law.” — ALP federal
leader Kim Beazley.
Their health is another matter
“We commit to respecting the religious, cultural and ethical concerns of
people.” —
Call for solidarity
The situation in Gaza and the West Bank is deteriorating day after day due to Israel's practices against our people. Our children cannot sleep well, hearing the shooting and shelling at night and during the day. They cannot go
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — The ongoing uprising and the violent Israeli reaction in the West Bank and Gaza Strip took a new twist on November 28, when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced that early Israeli elections would be held only two
BY SARAH CLEARY
PERTH — The NUS West state conference was held here on November 26. The Labor Party right faction, Unity, had the majority of delegates.
Annette Haeker, former Murdoch University education vice-president was elected to the
Rally demands end to Israeli repression
ADELAIDE — Around 150 people rallied here on November 29 on the steps of
Parliament House to demand an immediate end to the brutal Israeli repression
of the Palestinian people. Speakers included
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SHORT STORY BY CRAIG CORMICK
I went down to my local bank the other day — only to find it had been closed down. A large "For Lease" sign hung in the window and a small card on the door informed me where the closest branch not yet closed down
BY VIV MILEY & ALEX BAINBRIDGE
Neil Smith was fined $7000 on October 27 for his part in a 1998 forest protest against the logging of virgin forest at Kooparoona Niara, also known as the Great Western Tiers. Smith was known at the time by the
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