BY SEAN WALSH
George Pell, the newly appointed Catholic archbishop of Sydney, is once again under attack from angry community groups, in particular those at the sharp end of Pell's bigoted, anti-gay and anti-lesbian stick.
Sydney gay and lesbian
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BY MELANIE SJOBERG
Workplace relations minister Tony Abbott has called for an inquiry
into the construction industry, alleging widespread corruption, fraud and
intimidation of workers. What this really represents is a blatant political
BY ALISON DELLIT
The Australian Financial Review's May 23 headlines said it all, "There's a hole where the surplus used to be", "Even the 1.5 billion isn't as good as it looks" and, on May 24, "The incredible shrinking surplus".
Behind the
Ken Fry was the Labor member for Fraser, one of Canberra's
two lower house seats, from 1974-1984 and is best known as one of the leading
parliamentary supporters of independence for East Timor, having visited
the country shortly before its
BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK & JO ELLIS
DARWIN — The AIDS Council's annual candlelight vigil, held on May 20, provided solidarity for those living with HIV and encouraged people to join the fight against discrimination and oppression.
Gary Meyerhoff,
BY VIV MILEY
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants", George 'Dubya' Bush, January 14, 2001.
Bush and his administration definitely know
Mahmood lives in Perth. He was released from Port Hedland detention centre six weeks ago, on a temporary protection visa. Mahmood is Kurdish and lived in Iran.
Mahmood was involved in the Iranian journalists' union and was a student leader in
Mea culpa?
"While the GST is basically here to stay, it is now clear its benefits were grossly exaggerated by economists who climbed on the 'tax reform' bandwagon." — editorial in the May 26-27 Australian Financial Review, one of the chief media
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — “This is an occasion we should all be rejoicing about”,
was how veteran socialist Norm Taylor began his address to the launch of
the Socialist Alliance here on May 21.
The alliance was urgently needed, Taylor
Anyone who has attended a recent rally in Sydney knows that there is more to the police than cheesy grins and helping the elderly. Despite already knowing this, I was completely unprepared for my experience of police at the May 17 blockade of the
Just weeks after another uprising at the Port Hedland refugee detention centre, federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock introduced the immigration detainees bill into federal parliament, which proposes to allow guards to conduct strip searches of
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — If opponents of President Abdurrahman Wahid have their way, when it meets on May 30 the Indonesian parliament will call a special session of the People's Consultative Assembly, the only body which has the power to impeach
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