On June 25, 330 delegates from 19 unions covering public sector workers met in Sydney to launch Unions NSWs Better Services Campaign. The launch marked the return of the peak body to the battlefield over privatisation and public services.
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Health system in crisis It came as a shock to me, and to some of my friends, about the way some of the hospitals refuse to admit patients for serious operations unless they pay at the time of arrival. As recently as June 11, a friend of our
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A June 23 forum on the Tamil struggle for self-determination drew 30 people to the Brisbane activist centre.
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PERTH A Canadian food safety expert, Dr Shiv Chopra, has claimed the US and Canadian governments are the most corrupt when it comes to unsafe food practices. Australia is not far behind.
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The inquest into the death in custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomadgee in November, 2004 will be reopened. In 2006, deputy state coroner Christine Clements found senior sergeant Chris Hurley was responsible for Doomadgees death.
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Since 1982, coal-truck deliveries in Wollongong were restricted to between 7am and 6pm, Monday to Saturday. But now the NSW planning department has lifted this curfew.
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Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim introduced a private members bill on May 26. If passed, it will legalise euthanasia in the state.
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Climate activists in Newcastle, already the worlds biggest coal port, have been campaigning to stop a planned upgrade. The upgrade will double the ports coal export capacity and worsen climate change, they say.
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On June 15, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) raised the rate of its standard variable mortgage by 0.1%. For home buyers with the typical $300,000 mortgage, this means repayments go up by $18 a month.
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Environmental author and commentator Clive Hamilton first compiled a list of Australias top greenhouse mafia dons in 2006.
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A visitor from Mars would have scratched their head raw about what big business is allowed to get away with in this country especially by so-called Labor governments.
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State of Play
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Tony Gilroy
With Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn, Helen Mirren
In cinemas