One Nation is racist: the evidence Hanson can't denyWhenever journalists question Pauline Hanson, David Oldfield or David Ettridge about the racist views of the One Nation party, they respond by saying, "I'm not a racist. Name one
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VCA students and staff reject up-front feesMELBOURNE — At separate meetings on July 23, Victorian College of the Arts students and staff unanimously rejected the college council's attempt to introduce up-front fees for
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Any indirect tax, like the Coalition's planned goods and services tax, is inherently inequitable because it taxes every individual at the same rate on their purchases, regardless of capacity to pay. Moreover, low income earners have
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Shortly after the Coalition parties' disastrous result in the Queensland election, an International Monetary Fund delegation to Australia urged the Australian government to maintain its commitment to tax "reform". In an earlier visit,
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No to Howard's election blackmail!For 12 months John Howard has been threatening to call a double dissolution election on the issue of native title. He claims that unless the opposition parties in the Senate pass his amendments to
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A road worker, who voted for One Nation in north Queensland, told the Australian that he had formerly been a "red hot Labor supporter" until "Paul Keating brought in enterprise bargaining agreements", which resulted in road crews
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Compulsory military service will be declared if an amnesty fails to bring back about 15,000 army deserters, Anuruddha Ratwatte, Sri Lanka's deputy defence minister, announced in early May. The government is threatening to impose
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Despite PM John Howard's promise (obviously not a "core" promise) in 1995 that the Coalition would "never ever" introduce a goods and services tax, the Liberals, big business and economic "commentators" are clamouring for a GST. The
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The current discussion about labour productivity is not new. Ever since trade unions began organising last century to restrict the ability of capitalists to exploit workers, capitalists have been trying to persuade (or force) workers
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Everybody is talking about waterfront reform — the federal government, Patrick Stevedores, P & O Ports, the ALP and the ACTU. "The need for waterfront reform" has been hammered in the media for so long that for several months, opinion polls have shown a majority of Australians supporting it.
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When Patrick Stevedores, with the support of the Howard government, locked 2000 waterside workers out of their jobs at 11pm on April 7, the government and Patrick gave the impression they were on a winner. But the strong community and union support for the maritime union has shown that many workers understand that the future of trade unionism is at stake in this dispute.